The Armour Archive

Alex Baird

Sit quietly, and I abide.
Rise to find me, and I vanish.

Alex Baird

Maghnus Ã“ Sionnaigh wrote:
Grapes/wine

Yes.

Alex Baird

Plucked away in her youth,
Immured in wooden halls.
Sold to wastels,
Sour in old age.

Alex Baird

Up I go, yet down I remain.

How about a foot and/or a shoe?

Alex Baird

By the rules (and please cite for your kingdom, SCA, etcâ€¦) if a polearm strikes an opponent and both the blade and haft hit with the force of a good blow , is it good? IMO, if a blade hits with good force, then it hits with good force. Even if I managed to get some block against the haft, it obvi...

Alex Baird

[quote="Donal Mac Ruiseart"]

Two up, four down, four danglers, and a wig-wag.

A cow. Two horns, four legs, four teats, and a tail.

Alex Baird

Donal Mac Ruiseart wrote:
Up I go, yet down I remain.

Thistledown.

Alex Baird

Regarding rapier gorgets, I think the rule in Atlantia is *either* padding or puncture-resistant material behind the gorget. I have a brigandine gorget (metal plates inside soft thick leather) worn over my multi-layer puncture-resistant hood. No marshal has failed my gorget for not being padded. Th...

Alex Baird

So, the only combat (trauma type) fatality is a rapier fighter? Didn't expect any of those in rapier. Honestly, didn't expect any trauma type deaths in general. There was no fatality. I was on the field when this incident occurred. The person received an oblique shot to the gorget, which was unpadd...

Alex Baird

Ismaels-Legacy wrote:I am a mountain without stone,
a forest without trees,
and a lake without water.

What am I?

A sailing ship?

Alex Baird

Crimthann of Fid-Nemed wrote:Very nearly there. A towel. The more it drys, the wetter it gets!

Must be a ShamWow! That ad is inappropriate for anyone with an IQ.

Alex Baird

Ismaels-Legacy wrote:Cannabis?

Alex Baird wrote:Made am I from my mother's bones.
Men fight o'er me with their brother,
For within me I hold all a man owns,
And without, divide them each from the other.

A stone Wall or Castle?

Yes, a wall of stone.

Alex Baird

Made am I from my mother's bones.
Men fight o'er me with their brother,
For within me I hold all a man owns,
And without, divide them each from the other.

Alex Baird

Baron Alejandro wrote:Did you seriously just give away the Caid secret battle plan on an open forum?

Or, maybe that's what we want them to think . . .

Alex Baird

For those of you who weren't there, the last group of pictures among those that Proxus linked were of him receiving his Dolphin, the Caid AoA service award. Seems Lord Proxus led a drive to gather armor and fighting equipment for donation to the servicemen and women stationed in Iraq, which was quit...

Alex Baird

There are many fighters in our group who are much better than me (and also much better than him), but I'm still able to play the game I want to play with them sometimes . Even though they still beat me in the end on most occasions, I'm not a pushover - while this one guy just managed to completly c...

Alex Baird

We fight armoured, with blunt steel, semi-contact, though we spar with wasters or shinai from time to time when we're feeling like whacking harder. It's definitely not historical swordsmanship (although we're constantly trying to sneak in historical techniques that aren't too dangerous for "sp...

Alex Baird

In fighting, time and range are interchangable: you trade the one for the other. If your opponent has a natural range advantage, you will have to find ways of gaining time on him. A few strategies: Look for him to make a transition from stance to stance, and assault during his transition. Look at st...

Alex Baird

SCA Rapier, triple (that's right, I said triple ) elimination. Round one - all single weapons. First loss - You get one defensive item (buckler, cloak, etc) Second loss - You get another sword (case) or dagger. Third loss - You're out. We do these fairly often out here. We call them "progressi...

Alex Baird

...I pack my stuff and leave, not even fighting in Melee's, going home upset, mad at myself for such a terrible job I did. ... thanks for any advise you may wish to share. Others are addressing your close quarters question well. But, I'd like to address this part. Next time, when you're out of the ...

Alex Baird

I'll be going out tomorrow.

Alex Baird

hrolf wrote:hey, i've got a GREAT idea. let's just go take some chainsaws and lop off everything that's lower than 9' from the ground in the woods.

Nah, just everything smaller than 1.25 ".

Alex Baird

Murdock wrote:"Scots Highlander "

Uggg

Bet they do it all William Wallace Braveheart

Or Battle of Culloden era.

Alex Baird

Nifty armor! Are you going to make one of those wide leaf bladed weapons to go with it?

Alex Baird

The information would decide if Athens would react to an incoming army. For example, if the "scorched earth" policy were used or biological warfare (both happened in Greece) they would have torched the city or contaminated it so the enemy couldn't get it. Also, while the Persian army had ...

Alex Baird

But that's a bit of an odd standard to set for the long bladed heavier weapons. Not only can I redirect that third intention attack, but I can do similar, equally challenging things that I might not be able to do on the piste. Agreed. This ain't electric steel whip tag. We're trying to get AWAY fro...

Alex Baird

im for less rules, not more. technically the event in the picture was not legal, the marshals were in violation of the rules, and the fighting should not have been allowed. but for what? did the marshal in the picture do his job? seems so. was anyone harmed because he didnt have a tabard on? seems ...

Alex Baird

What date?

Alex Baird

[quote="D. Sebastian"]I've used nylon strapping, strapping tape, a suede colar and compinations of the same./quote] I use a 1" deep suede cup with 8 3" tails off the rim. Each tail has a trailer of nylon string about 10" long. These get spiral taped to the rattan with strapp...

Alex Baird

I mean really...You can swing a sword ALOT harder than you can thrust it.... Can you? Then why the padding at all? Yes, one can likely impart more momentum in a swing, but it's not always about how much force you can put into the blow, as it is how much force the stick delivers and keeps on deliver...

Alex Baird

Effingham wrote:
I don't know of any off the top of my head, but I could see it.

Effingham

I was thinking of someone like Duke Conn MacNeill (sp?) of Midrealm (mka Bob Charron).

Alex Baird

Ooops, I should have rememberd that rule. Too likely to propell something that isn't the intended ammo. Sean I remember back in the 80's, someone built a gonne designed to fire tennis balls that worked off of lighter propane, ala a potato gun. The experiment was nixed after the tennis ball came out...

Alex Baird

For the record, many kniggits, also, have been made Pelicans for their organizational skills in developing fighters, training, and running recruitment and practices beyond the level that one *normally* expects to be part of being a knight in the first place. I think Duke Paul of Bellatrix is the qu...

Alex Baird

Perhaps we should use the term "Knowne World Classâ„¢".

Alex Baird

My point is that those kingdoms would be forced to recognize peers made under these circumstances because peerages are society-wide orders. In this circumstance, one is enough. Each kingdom should be allowed to recognize who they want as a peer. Creating a new order for an activity which does not e...

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