User blog comment:Subject 16*/Assassin's Creed: Revelations - News/@comment-1471082-20110515200818/@comment-70.70.13.203-20110515223631

Guards should be better at breaking execution streaks, but there should be a way to avoid their damage, like attacks that can't be countered so you have to dodge, even if you're already in a killing animation, and a context sensitive animation comes up. My hope is that the combat system will allow you to POTENTIALLY destroy guards, but you'll have to have expert timing, awareness, and tactics to do so, so that those who have not mastered the system will not be perfect just by pressing x, and those that are good at it cannot expect to be perfect all the time, and must avoid guards.