Concentrated Defense rule from 3e

[trooper6]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

But in duels there's not much point, since you generally have a mere -1 (maybe -2) for repeated parries, but need to burn FP to get better than -3 on repeated attacks. And that's assuming you use a one-handed sabre, not a staff-sword or a sabre+maingauche.

-1 assumes both a Fencing Weapon and Weapon Master/TBaM. And not all duels involve fencing weapons or people with WM/TBaM.

If you don't use a fencing weapon, you are at -2, if you don't have WM/TBaM, you are at -4 on those repeated parries.