
Your opponents can block your attacks with a parry from the same direction or a shield.

Fully-charged attacks cause more damage, swing faster, and pierce armor more effectively. The combat system is a more refined, deeper version of Mount and Blade's system with many of the same controls you ready an attack from one of four different directions with the mouse. In the game, you play a knight, foot soldier, archer, or even a lowly peasant (all decided by you and the game's extensive customization) fighting for your house in up to 64-player multiplayer matches in various battles of the Wars throughout the English countryside, from sleepy farming villages and wide open hill country to the haphazard, claustrophobic streets of large towns. The game is set during the titular Wars of the Roses in 15th century England, wherein the royal houses of York and Lancaster fought off-and-on for the throne over a span of 30 years.
