This post covers the pink part of the diagram From the wards, we generate attacks. The wards influence the attacks we can make, but it is perhaps more accurate to say that the wards stem from the attacks and not the other way around. This is because there are only so many ways we can cut or thrust around a buckler, purely due to anatomy. Secondly, we must cut around the buckler because we can't cut through it. Lastly, we cannot pass our sword arm through our buckler arm.