this is just my opinion, so dont grill me...
but in a fight to the death, there r no rules. honour is meaningless. you may be a great fighter and you definitly sound like you know your stuff, but in a real fight its about surviving and winning. you may call someone who, (lets say, knew you would beat them in a head on fight, so they back stabbed you or slit your throat in your sleep) cowardly but at the end of the day, you would be the one whos dead.
its not just unskilled or cowards who use these tactics though. as Dark Paladin Cecil is saying, its the smarter fighter who wins. you can be skilled and still resort to surprise attacks to get the job quicker, or even because its the only way 2 win.
in like stealth games its just stuipity to try and fight the Terriosts or Ronin or Mafia Body Guards head on, you would die so fast. you have to sneak around and take them out from the shadows.
i reiterate, its about results. remember the first indiana Jones Film, the raiders of the lost ark? that swordsmen may have been way too hard for our hero but shooting him is all it took. win what ever way u can. yeah,
try the honourable path, but unless they are being honourable as well and u have agreed to a non *cheating* one on one fight with them, use whatever means avaliable. if more then one enemy confronts u, then u should not feel any shame for pulling out your machine pistols, and in a life or death struggle, i would rather sneak up on them or shoot them then get my head smashed in.
