Is disarming your opponent possible?

[Opossum Boy]

Playing my current character (first character) the most like I would in real life. Wood elf, neutral on the war, tries his hardest to protect people who are opressed and stays low otherwise.

Was just wondering if there was a way to take down enemies in a non-violent manner. I've noticed that whenever an enemy takes enough damage, they take a knee and beg for their lives. Is there a way to disarm enemies and force them to retreat? Currently, it just seems that after a few seconds (if your follower doesn't slaughter the foe) they just get back up and fight as normal.

[mpd1958]

There are two ways I know of to disarm, one is the disarming bash perk in Blocking and the other is a Shout. However, the adversary will always git up and fight back, even bare handed.

[Simple Man]

Take down, non violent. Water, not wet?

You wanna take down an enemy without hurting him? like post above says, blocking has a perk that allows you to disarm, theres also a shout that will blo the weapon out of the guys hands, but from here, you still have to damage them to "take down".

[Sonny Mastrangioli]

^ those two methods or some other methods like the trick shot perk from Ordinator or some similar perk mods that has a perk for disarming enemies via a well placed arrow shot to the hand/arm

[Opossum Boy]

Since apparently enemies will continue to fight after being disarmed, I see no reason in disarming them. Was hoping that perhaps i'd be able to play robin hood and just attack merchants without killing them, but I suppose not.

Thank you for the responses.

[Sonny Mastrangioli]

Originally posted by VERY NAISE:

Since apparently enemies will continue to fight after being disarmed, I see no reason in disarming them. Was hoping that perhaps i'd be able to play robin hood and just attack merchants without killing them, but I suppose not.

Thank you for the responses.

id rather have disarmed enemies charge you and fight on, save you getting 1 hitted by a certain ebony clad warrior lol

[Simple Man]

Well you can, somehat. If you disarm them and pick up the weapon, you kind of won. Their fists will hardly even tickle and you can have it your way without killing the guy.

Once you're done with what you came for, just ride off into the sunset, he will give up the chase.

[Opossum Boy]

You can't be executed with fists? I remember fighting a person I woke up once and having him insta-kill me on the third pucnh, even though he was doing very little damage.

[Simple Man]

Hm never happened to me, they hardly ever do any damage once disarmed, executing is kind of not in the menu at that point, always play on Legendary as well. Maybe its some scripted scene you're talking about, or maybe you were running around with 0 armor rating and that changes everything, im not sure.

I think theres also fear spells that puts them running for a period.

[Opossum Boy]

Nevermind, fought the same enemy type and realized they have access to magic that I just didn't notice.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

I sugggest:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=151200916

Also the paralize spell is a great way to disarm enemies as they cant move.