Are you people using a controller to fight in melee?

So i am a newb, trying to figure out combat in MB2. With range weapons that is no problem, but in melee i just die.
I really mean it, every single(single!) enemy beats me in a fair fight. The tutorial is not really helpful.

I tried as many as ~30 Tourneys and i have no won a single one of them. In the eariler stages i can win by exploiting the chaos, but in 1on1 against an enemy with a shield i just lose like everytime while playing on "Bannerlord"-difficulty.

The problem is, that i have to aim at the enemy to block, stun and hit and aim away from the enemy to perform swing strikes with an onehanded sword(everything else gets easily blocked/misses all the time). So i normally run sideways, while aiming and swinging at the enemy at the other side - but then i like never get the correct aim to shieldbash.
Or i get the shieldbash right, but cant move my mouse fast enough to perform a swing attack afterwards in time, so i do a stab or overhead attack which often misses or gets blocked. So far all my one on one victories are luck based swings while running away. I just cant figure out a truely working bash/attack combo with mouse and keyboard.

So i am at the point, where i am convinced the game is not meant to be played with mouse and keyboard in melee combat. So are you playing the melee combat with M+K successfully?

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