It still requires the use of both hands though, otherwise it's not really Unarmed combat. By the sounds of it, the weapon categories are going to be fairly broad, with One-Handed including Swords, Axes, and Maces. So it would seem logical to include hand to hand in the Two-Weapon category.

How about a hand to hand skill? I don't see why not.

There are small similarities to swinging a sword and an axe, so it makes some sence that one with experience with a sword wouldn't be clueless with an axe.

I hope "luck" will be turned into a skill.

I think that weapons will be divided by type (swords, axes, maces) and not by 1handed or 2handed...
Also Marksman is just Archery now .

Is it really that far-fetched to think it would be impossible to have a perk that gives you a "cart" to store things in, like they had in Daggerfall (it even came with a free donkey). And encumberance doesn't have to be entirely strength. How the load is carried can be just as important and how much it weighs. I agree that it will likely be connected to Stamina, but I could think of many ways to BS it into other skills.

You're forgetting Alchemy, that's been confirmed as a stealth skill.

I really hate all these threads, they were fun to go into at first, but now it's complete balls.
Now it starts out as "Hey, let's try to guess what X, Y, and Z is going to be in the game! LOL" and even though it was fun at first, it eventually degenerates into people complaining about something, and then another party emerging with a post to counter the argument and both sides pretty much go "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!" and start smashing each other with usually legible sledgehammers and it eventually gets so bad that it ends (or other people start doing everything they can to get it to end) by going along the lines of "A wild flamebate appeared!; Mod uses 'Forum Lock'!; It was Super Effective!"

But that's because synergy is apparent. There are small similarities to swinging a sword and an axe, so it makes some sence that one with experience with a sword wouldn't be clueless with an axe. If everything was just being grouped together like that, bows would also be plopped in the two handed skill.

Since when is being lucky a skill?

How about a hand to hand skill? I don't see why not.

I can recall hearing about farming skill somewhere. Not sure where, anyone else remembers something about farming?

Farming, mining, woodcutting(?) I don't remember/know what else. But from the sound of it, they won't be regular skills like your combat/stealth/magic skills, but then again they have the crafting skills under them so those could be under some sort of Gathering type skill now that I think of it, if they include it under one of the three major branches ie Combat, Magic, Stealth.

I can recall hearing about farming skill somewhere. Not sure where, anyone else remembers something about farming?

-Combat
1 Handed Weapons
2 Handed Weapons
Shield/Blocking
Unarmed Combat
Armor
Smithing

-Magic
Restoration
Alteration
Destruction
Conjuration
Illusion
Enchanting

-Stealth
Speechcraft
Barter
Sneaking
Security
Marksman
Alchemy

My guess: 1H will determine the damage you do with daggers in open combat, while Sneak will have perks that give you bonuses for stealth attacks with daggers. Yes, it's distributed across two skills, but for completely different attack styles.

Maybe some reasons they did this:

1. To keep the 1H Perk tree from being far too bloated and the go-to tree for everyone.

2. To slightly enforce daggers as the essential "Stealth" weapon. If you wanna kick butt with these you cant' gimp your stealth.

I really hate all these threads, they were fun to go into at first, but now it's complete balls.

The discussion actually started with light armor and how it may be combined into one armor skill under the combat category with perks for light/heavy specialization. But what's important to mention is that the categories are Combat, Magic, and Stealth, not Combat, Magic, and Thievery. You can be a thief who uses combat skills, but a pure stealth character should ideally not need to use any type of armor - light or heavy. An agile swordsman would get better use out of light armor than a pure stealth character - so IMO it makes more sense to put both armor types under combat as a single skill with specialization perks.

That's not to say that a thief couldn't use light armor, heavy armor, or any type of weapon that they want. But if you make a character that uses those skills, you are making a hybrid class, not a pure stealth character.

That could be said about virtually any and all threads. I don't know about the other people, but I'm trying to have a healthy discussion.

That last line of your post was funny, BTW.