"There really is a lot of nuance to combat, even when it looks like you're just hitting things with a hammer." Jake noted as he watched Slate Petros tilt his shield to allow the boar to overrun him, and get the shield underneath its belly, where he could toss it off its feet, where he could attack the more vulnerable underside.
The two combatants separated with the boar limping, and Karl dismissed it.
Slate chuckled. "And that's about how you deal with boars, you see? Same sort of shield you're using, just adapt the attack to the weapon you've got available."
Jake nodded. "I think that I get it now. You don't overpower the beast, you use its momentum against it so that you can strike at the flanks."
The Dwarf nodded. "Exactly. If you're fighting wild beasts, you're unlikely to be the larger combatant, so you need to use the advantages that you have.
Now, I'm a Shaman, so I don't normally fight them up close like that. But Warriors don't have as many options.
