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Trystyn of Anglesey wrote:Anglesey? Or are they considered defunct by now?

Far as I know they're still in existence but I never thought of them as the "live for war" type.

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short version, WOW XI is coming up and I'm writing the PR. The division this year is basically between the people who live for war and the people who don't. I need names of groups (households, clans, I don't care) that basically just show up and fight. I've already got Mountain Keep, Bloodguard, the...

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Hallelujah. Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but hallelujah.

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Wendall: without a picture from straight in front, all I can see is that the metal band above the spring pin is *slightly* off center. I can't see a "wonky" helm. Since the idea that a human head is symmetrical is asinine, the idea that a helmet must somehow magically be symmetrical is also equally ...

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I have a green, heavier, tougher tube I've been using that worked out to 3.23 lbs for a 9' length. This stuff worked out to right at 4 lbs for a 9' length. I never weighed Logan's woodgrain stuff but I had no problem with it. It definitely wasn't as lightweight as Icefalcon's red stuff. I can say th...

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all but 50 are the regular spear lengths. 50 are the 12's. (okay, it's 8'10" and 11'10". but you get the idea.)

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Riese Von Landsee wrote:How long are these?

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http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=174663 Status Update By Munitions Grade Arms Wood-Grain Heavy-Duty Fiberglass Spears! Now that I have your attention… I have to chance to have these manufactured. But I need your help. I am just a bit short of being able to pay for the minim...

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http://laughingsquid.com/a-demonstratio ... ury-armor/

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Patrick: re "Char-aina" - I've never been able to find any documentation on how to spell it or what it is. I would love whatever you can provide. Blackbow I made all my own armor because when I started the loaner gear was unsafe. If I wanted to give a helm to someone (and I've done it before), my cr...

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funny you should ask; I just got done digging for a tack locker for my gf's youngest for horseback riding. low end ones actually are pretty damn big, can be compartmentalized, and lots even come with a padded seat. Soon as I have $ to spend that's what I'm headed for.

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found it - that first picture they have on the max coverage line of the kneepad is the first kneepad. The second one looks a good bit better. I'd still make sure they put enough velcro strap on 'em.

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the only problem I had with the zoombang pads I tested was that the velcro was just barely long enough to wrap around my knee. I hope that got fixed. Other than that, they rock. These do look updated.

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one day there will be a gps locator small enough and tough enough to put in the bottom of a butt spike. Aethelmarc was on the other side of the bridge (fighting for the East). The fighter that took it was fighting for the Midrealm, same as we were. Yes, weapons disappear all the time, but I've never...

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Josh: basically, the rule as written states that if you don't publish the FP and the SCA doesn't sign anything making them responsible for the site, it's not an official FP, and you don't need a marshal or paperwork. Solve it that way. step down, find people who want to fight, and ignore the BS. Bla...

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I was at the GW where that occurred. What it boiled down to is the rule that's in the rulebook now that says "know your limits" or some variation thereof. I would see about raising the height of the walls where it's possible to fall. If that's not doable, I'd put up a big red STOP sign that says "no...

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i hate to say it but the day is coming when you're going to have to start writing down badge numbers to loan anything out.

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I don't think he's capable of parsing with any accuracy any longer. I do not make threats. never have. anyway, enough with you. can we go back to helping sir brand? can you drop your silly anti-sca bullshit for one thread just this once? really? awww. poor you who always follows my posts. so I respo...

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stuff like this is why I see ACL and such eventually becoming sponsored sports, just like the NFL.

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just c/p'd this from the zoombang fb feed. Brion Porter‎West Kingdom, SCA After concluding an email conversation with the Society Earl Marshal, I am now confident in announcing that the Zoombang product does meet minimum equivalency standards for "rigid protection". Therefore, it may be used as the ...

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couldn't agree more. Blackbow I volunteered to marshal for Pennsic the first time in 1996. Each year, save one very short trip, I have marshaled the field at least twice. Time and time again I have watched their complaints go unheard, and I have watched with my own eyes Knights of our society skirt ...

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no. Because, as I've said before, when you swing at me with a real sword, I'll put on real armor. When people stop throwing bullshit wrap shots because I can't punch their sword arm with my shield, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Blackbow http://www.therionarms.com/pictures/zoidberg-armor3.jpg Why ...

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Because, as I've said before, when you swing at me with a real sword, I'll put on real armor. When people stop throwing bullshit wrap shots because I can't punch their sword arm with my shield, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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Therion wrote:

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if I get the chance I will get a set and evaluate it. It looks interesting to say the least.

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bonus point for off weapons. Thanks everyone for your ideas! Here is what I am planning to do for a tournament: "Fight 'til you Drop" Tourney - 1 point (for each combatant) for each fight ("participation point") - 1 point for a victory - 1 bonus point if an unbelt beats a member of the Order of Chiv...

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actually, there's really no need for MoL support on either this or the one I advised. winners go this way, losers go that way, boom, done. Nobody has to stop to do anything at all. blackbow Everyone starts in the middle of the field. Pair up via line randomly and fight. Winners go to the left, loser...

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the biggest downside to that that I can see is that your bottom third in every circle is going to go into every fight knowing they basically have no chance. I also wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of people drop out after the first round of fights for that reason (or other reasons). If you had, ...

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just like in literature, as far as setups like this, there really aren't any original ideas any more. Everybody with a "new" idea has borrowed it from SOMETHING. Yes, that includes me.

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Steve S. wrote:
Is this up for grabs? I think it's an awesome idea.
Sure!

Steve

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that would be an awesome tournament to run in a situation where there was plenty of time. What you're probably going to run into, though, is a lot of fights that take forever. But I could see having a prize for the person who starts in the bottom pit and ends up in the top pit the most. That's actua...

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Atlantian Speed Tourneys- they don't HAVE to take a lot of marshals. Basically you pair everybody off (although they will vary the "first guy fight the last guy in line" format, ie, number down the line, 1 fights 3, 2 fights 4, or 1 fights 2, 3 fights 4, etc, etc etc, just to keep people from lining...

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No. I simply don't care enough to shove my viewpoint down somebody else's throat.

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Riese Von Landsee wrote:Being they were used and made to stop arrows and thrusts, they were armor....and you feel zoombang under a tunic is a proper representation of a jack? Really now.

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LMAO padded jacks, thick gambesons... are... ...wait for it.... ....wait for it.... padded cloth. Much like a zoombang. Blackbow So there was no padded jacks, thick gambesons....no armor, at all? They all fought in linen tunics, including the nobility? I guess all the mass graves from around Europe ...

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armorless armies clashing in battle WAS the norm. That's why you had companies of guys with nothing but slings, or arrows. the vast majority of troops didn't have much of anything past a spear and a helmet. Chainmail was rare as hen's teeth, swords much the same. Sure, there were a lot of suits of m...

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Crap. Utter crap. If the end goal was authentic armor, then that would be in the rules, just like it is in Civ War and Rev War reenactment, and the Routiers, and god knows who else. In Civ War and Rev War reenactment it is not uncommon for people to be disqualified from participating because they ma...

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Bingo. It's the same conversation I've had about period camping and period this and period that. I'm glad that people like Cariadoc are around to look good, but the authenticity group without the fun group would be much smaller. And another SCA would spring up overnight to fill the niche. Blackbow F...

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then figure out a way to make a draw cut a useful attack and credit the people who wear real chainmail with not having to worry about it, and make people who wear real chainmail of any sort immune to thrusts wherever the chainmail covers them. If Trimaris can have touch kill to the face and nobody r...

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