AC murmuring in the back of my head...

[stormyseasons]

Somewhere on the internet, possibly on one wiki or guide or the other, I think I read something about Altair having hidden blade counters. Which I never did manage to trigger during my first playthrough.

Of course, this could just be attributed to Abstergo's crappy simulation system... Since, in-verse, it makes sense that there would be... all sorts of interesting, combat pragmatic options involving various combinations of any Assassin's veritable load of weaponry.