/vr/ - Retro Games

I finished Thief Gold for the first time a few days ago. I played on expert and thus only blackjacked the most enemies. Then suddenly in the last three or four levels enemies like -pic related- appeared and forced me to learn sword fighting the hard way. In the end it only worked with weird circle strafe tactics to exploit there slow turning.
So I wonder is the sword fighting just very hard on expert or did I something wrong?

Btw these enemies where the most disgustingly entertaining things I have ever witnessed in a video game. Great game.