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Meh, I'll give it anyways, and this is mainly based on your little three point breakdown you made in your thread, and will be over three messages as well.

Point 1: Assuming that last paragraph is another attack, it doesn't say explicitly that you thrusted or stabbed. It doesn't even read like an attack. So you can't get on your opponent for that.

Point 2: He was blocking you. That's not an autohit. That's like saying that somebody blocking your sword strike is an autohit, except in this case he's blocking you at the elbow. And he's not harming you, either. That's a pretty pointless complaint.

Point three: He said he moved out of the way of your slashes, and you wrote in your own post that you were going into a spin. Even with a fairly quick spin, it can be assumed rather rightly that momentum would carry you further along your spin, and that he'd have time to draw his weapon, block you, and then counter-attack. (continued next message)

Continuation: As well, while off the back is a rather annoying way to draw a sword, I can imagine he'd be able to do it in that time (and four feet isn't actually that much length in terms of swords, not really). (Continued further because long messages)

Continuation part two: Especially considering he he already had his hands on his weapons and was prepared to draw, and it's easily possible that the sheathe is attached in such a way to facilitate that drawing, rather than being hard-line parallel with the back and impossible to draw from. Drawing a sword from most any position, if it's in such a way you actually can do it, really doesn't take that much time at all.

Also - final thing - in the case of the word "double bladed" you might want to talk to the guy. He might mean "double edged" and not actually double bladed. A lot of people mess up their terminology, and most of the time when I see "double bladed" attached to a Katana-esque weapon, they actually mean double edged.

As far as that goes, I expplained to him what the final strike was, and that I used the wrong word, long before he even posted. And he stepped back, if memory serves, then stepped to his original position as it says in his post, which as far as Halmo'de was concerned, he never moved, just avoided the strikes, thus business as usual, allowing for an unhindered thrust forward. (Cont.)

He never said he took a step to the side, or anything like that, thus giving me the impression he just returned to his position. And as for the drawing of the sword from his back, a four foot long Souba (which by definition is a double bladed katana with two blades lined next to each other) it would be damn hard to do.

Have you ever drawn a sword, let alone a two or three foot sword from your back? Sure with practice, you could draw it, but you're limited to your own arm length. I'll post a video here shortly to stake my claim.

Here's one. There are more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQBfNoi28Z4

While you are right in that he didn't auto hit, it didn't make a lick of sense to me that he moved back to his original position and just raised his knee in a block, which did happen, as the blade glanced off his knee, leaving him with only a shallow cut to his envirosuit.

Another point on the back mount long af sword, the character himself is five foot eleven inches in height. Half of that height is the length of one arm. I'm 6'5" and have a hard time drawing a weapon with a two foot long blade from the rear. Even with practice. So that's not a valid point to be made. A sword that long on one's back is impractical. Cool-looking but impractical.

Eh. You really ought to add in that it was a stab in your post, then, and make sure it's understood as such in the post proper. Otherwise, saying that "yeah, there was this attack, and it was this kind of attack" doesn't do you any good if it isn't actually inside the post. Something to remember for the future.

I'll edit, then. It was just a wrong word that I used. Flay to me meant thrust, but to him not so much. But that is and was the intention from the git, long before he responded.

As for sword on the back - it's impractical a lot of the time, I'm not denying that. Depending on how you have it set up, though, you can be drawing it over the shoulder, rather than straight off the back. That could be what this person was doing. And yes, I have tried this and seen many videos as well. There are ways it can work. Not many, but there are.

Huh. Yeah, "flaying" somebody is not thrusting or stabbing at them. The word "flay" means to slice somebody's skin off/slice them to really thin ribbons/beat them so hard that their skin gets ripped off. That's not stabbing or thrusting whatsoever, that's very definitively cutting.

Alright. Well either way, he knew what I was trying to say, way before he posted.

I mean, yeah, that's silly, although also, if he moved back to his "original" position and then he threw up (and also slightly out) a knee, that could be explained as putting his leg further forward than he was in a way to stop the strike by contacting the elbowSo unless you have extremely split-second reaction time (highly unlikely and unrealistic), his defense could still have a small chance of working.