Fencing:Types Of Fencing Combat

Types of Fencing Combat

1. There are two types of Fencing Combat: single and melee.
2. Single combat is between two individual combatants.
   1. In single combat, combatants are engaged upon the call to lay on.
   2. If an opponent is disarmed of all weapons, their opponent may allow them to regain their weapon/weapons, or require them to yield.
3. Melee combat involves more than two combatants.
   1. In melees, combatants are engaged with all opponents immediately upon the call to lay on.
   2. Combatants may strike any single opponent they can safely reach with any legal blow if they are within a 180 degree arc of the opponent's front as defined by the opponent's shoulders, and at an angle they can be reasonably seen by the opponent.
   3. Combatants may strike any opponent who is part of a line if the attack is delivered within a 180 degree arc relative to the local line the opponent is a part of.
   4. Outside of these above stated lines, killing (without striking) from behind may be allowed. The rules governing this are in the section Use of Weapons and Defensive Objects.
   5. A combatant may not deliberately ignore an attacker behind them, or repeatedly manoeuvre to keep their back to an attacker (thereby preventing an attack on them).