How does the fencing Gang system work?

[@sarimnerhistoricaleuropean5242]

We will try this. So maybe 10 strikes and 3 minutes? Or something else?

[@TheHistoricalFencer]

You can use 4-12 strikes, but it quickly becomes hard to count. What you do is have one person count one fencer’s attacks and another the othe fencer. That makes it hard to count attacks. Historically that didn’t matter, because you only counted bleeding wounds and the highest won. At Dijon, they used challed blades to see where hits landed.

[@TheHistoricalFencer]

You don’t need to set a time at all. You set e.g. 5 gang of x amount of blows.

[@KnightedDawn]

Was it always blows landed, or was it ever blows attempted? Blows attempted would make more sense to me than blows landed.

[@TheHistoricalFencer]

I should have made that clearer, it’s attempted blows.