How do you deal with shields in tournaments ?

[Trashley]

I love the AI update to make it more of a challenge but my god !!! shield blocking on Ai is making it dull, i wish kick would give a good window to get a hit in but the shield is straight away up ! what do you do instead of smacking a shield for 10 minutes ( mostly tournys ) also how to deal with 2 sword and shield enemies in the torny

[2GenL]

Hold your attack (hold left mouse button)
When they start an attack (and so lower their shield) you release your attack and hit them...

[dodoooonnggg]

kick (E) and click as fast as possible to make your attack guarantee, especially overhead attack, be careful your kick can whiff

you can also play run and hit (show them your tail and run enough to make their attack miss, then when enemy attack, you swing) keep doing this

[Hugh G Rection]

I shield bash when they attack then follow up with an overhand into looping around the head slash . Also circle to their shield side , it sounds counter intuitive but if you do and they over hand or left to right slash or right to left slash they leave themselves open to counters.

Press the attack as well. If you land a hit just keep spamming the shortest to them attack you have . Also turn into swings to shorten their path .

[flyingscot1066]

Stagger the timing on your attacks. hit..hit...hold....hit. If all you do is spam LMB you're gonna have a bad time. Also, as mentioned above kicks break blocks. Less effective, but still usable in certain fights (Sturgia/Battania) is simply hacking the crap out of their shield until it breaks, but in tournaments that takes a long time due to the low damage of the weapons.

[Hark]

Originally posted by dodoooonnggg:

kick (E) and click as fast as possible to make your attack guarantee, especially overhead attack, be careful your kick can whiff

you can also play run and hit (show them your tail and run enough to make their attack miss, then when enemy attack, you swing) keep doing this

Yeah I do this on Bannerlord difficulty at start when I have 0 athletics and 0 wep skills.

You can beat any NPC in the game by having them chase you; just bare outrun them, have a preloaded swing ready, as they swing and barely miss you, then YOU swing camera around while releasing attack and smack them in the face. Immediately start running away again.

Rinse and repeat 2-4 times.

If you let them get too close then just keep running away (you run faster than them if they are attacking or loading a swing and chasing).

90+% success rate for me.