Board Thread:Morrowind/@comment-27351132-20151228050903/@comment-6881629-20151228103110

Thats just how Morrowind works, when you swing your weapon at an enemy the game calculates your chance to hit and the enemies chance to evade, if you skill is low with the weapon it's usually a miss your fatigue bar being low has a big effect too so repeatedly swinging to try and  get a hit make it less likely to happen. At the start of the game you will miss most of the time.

Make sure your using a weapon your skilled with (long blade and short blade are very different skills) and train for a bit against mudcrabs around Seyda Neen maybe, if you do use longblade follow the north west path out of Seyda Need a little bit.