Dueling --

Bar Fights - Practicing techniques - The swashbuckler difficulty level offers quite a challenge, especially as your character ages. To improve your dueling, try dueling without a attacking in a tavern. This would be too risky on a ship, since your crew might diminish, but in a tavern simply duck, jump, and taunt your opponent. Once you recognize fakes and attacks, very little will stand in your way.

3 for the Price of 1 - Combos - With the rapier, it is possible to pull off a second attack after succeeding in the first. A split second before you complete a thrust attack, launch a low attack. If the low attack is launched too early the character will fake a thrust and move to a low attack. If it comes too late, the thrust attack will connect then the player will begin a low attack, without the lightning speed of a true combo. Perfect timing will result in a thrust attack immediately followed by a low attack. This knocks the opponent back 3 steps, rather than merely 1.