Art of War

For over a month I've been practicing the fine ways of handling a Tachi/Katana Class ( while slaughtering couple of dozens of kutkus.) and I must say, since then I've have fallen in love with it.

Tachi moves disection.

Basically tachi moves comprises of a overhead slash, midsection jab/thrust, upperslash, Horizontal swipe and a backstep slash.






These are the main moves that can chain devastating combos at a moments notice. . .

combos start by either:

OverheadSlash> Mid thrust > upperslash > horizontalswipe > backstep slash
/\ > O > O > R > /\+O


This can be altered to:

Overhead slash > overhead slash > thrust > upperslash > overhead slash > backstep slash

or

Starts with Thurst > Upperslash > Overhead Slash > thurst > Upperslash > Backstep Slash

Well basically you'll get the picture, mix and match.
Note: a backstep slash is actually an evasive and offensive move in one. It can be used as a combo finisher or a retreating move. Since it swings 180* from left to right in a horizontal motion, its great for that last hit before stepping away from the battle.

while having said that, use this sparingly as timing is crucial, as a wrongly timed backstep often result in painful smack on the face or getting runned over.

Another fun side of the tachi is that hidden move, a very powerful one I might add, each time you successfully hit something, (be it a mosswaine,velocidprey, or a bullfango) the bar on the topleft will fill up.(as shown below) And when that bar is full you'll get a temporary attack up status. . . or aka demonmode.

Once the bar has been filled, one can unleash a evenmore punishing attack.. I named it the RAGED Combo. Basically it is similar to the demonmode of the dualswords but in a more controlled manner.