Alright, after getting absolutely slapped in NA, I'll give the default to Woj - the blocking is a sorry excuse for something which was so simple in Warband, I'm not willing to lose to anyone here because of the block delay. I block in the correct direction but the lovely delay means I'll just get hit anyway unless I press S key into oblivion.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty good at blocking in Bannerlord, but currently the duels are so lacklustre because of this delay that I'll just adopt a tragic style in effort to beat some noob players from NW. It is awfully strange how players from like PW can come onto Bannerlord Duel, spend like 30 hours on it and be able to beat Native playerss who've been blocking endless glitchy feints for years on end. It's not about who's got the best skill or style (No one's feints are actually 'hard to block', they're extremely basic but the block delay makes them impossible), it's who can abuse the block delay more and I'm not about that.