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Balin50

Has a Duke ever stepped into a tourney after it has started?

I was told once that DP was as much as they were allowed to get away with.

Balin

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Ivan, get bent. How about that deep end of the pool is were fighters actually fight each other instead of shooting them from safety. The deep end of the pool is in the press that is where heroes are made not standing by the sidelines taking pot shots at fighters already engaged. the deep end is bein...

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I have to say this is a very nice Pro archery thread 77 whole replies patting each other on the back about how good CA is. 77

everybody must love it

Balin
Aten 101
Fighters not Targets

Balin50

Lets hear it for CA bringing us all together

Balin

Balin50

That's probably why we don't knight people for being combat archers. I realize that was a joke, however, no....we don't knight people for being combat archers as archery is not a weapon of *tournament* combat, which is what the original (and probably still) definition of the order of chivalry was. ...

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You're right i don't HAVE too, but it's fun. I know where you stand it is all good Good answer continue to shoot those peasants all of them then put your nerf gun away and come and fight Balin Aten 101 Fighters not Targets PS and i have not even ranted on the no rant list...yet...but you don't know ...

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Sir Balin, I am not asking you to like CA or to be quiet about it. And you are certainly well within your rights to try to have it restricted, banned or altered. I am asking you, as a brother knight, to consider how your choice of words can be interpreted by many as actual threats or insults intend...

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Then I'm curious as to how you intend to "stomp" CA participants, if you're not willing to meet them on the field. Certainly, you're not proposing violence off the field, as that's hardly Knightly. Now that would be telling. Truth is you have no idea do you? LOL now that makes me laugh Ba...

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I look forward to the day you "stomp" me. And i look forward to the glee I will have if your "stomping" exceeds normal conventions of combat and the resultant marshal's Court pulls your fighter card. Fortunately, as we are 2000+ miles away, I doubt our paths will cross. If they ...

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Richard,

i am dismissing them all of them...if you want to make nice you go, but i will continue to stomp CA every time some may be nice folks, but when they take the field with CA...not so much.

As to Leo...

Balin
Aten 101
Unfair unsafe Unchivalrous
Fighters not Targets

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center grips with shields made out of a bunch of layers of cardboard glued together. Then do a destructable shield tourney

Balin50

Idaho Falls is awesome LOTS of GREAT people up there that is where i started playing. You will be right next to Uprising which is a great camping event think it happens in next couple weeks. Sorry for the sidetrack here, but Uprising was last weekend, and it is by far my favorite event. Anyone else...

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when I get authorized in CA, I plan to shoot from behind a pavase. There will be a hook on the pavase. If I am overrun, I will signal to the oncoming person that I intend to accept their charge, and will hang my crossbow from the hook on the pavase, and step forward away from the pavase and crossbo...

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That of course is only on the rare occasions that they are standing in the open. In static situations they have full reign to strike opponents who have no chance at returning a blow to an archer even if they happen to block arrows all day long. Thank you for once again demonstrating that you care m...

Balin50

:twisted: So if you want to be a real rebel and rabble rouser in the Kingdom of Atenvedlt, form up a legion of combat archers to do volley fire and sniping. I'll be living in Artemisia (Idaho Falls) starting in 2019 (give or take). Sounds like that would be fun to set up a mercenary band of evil, m...

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We've done that experiment here in Atenveldt. When we tried to have CA only battles they didn't show up. They just wanted to shoot fighters not each other. It seems like we have very few combat archers in Atenveldt, altogether. Even with specific scenarios that featured combat archers there was onl...

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Its done lots how many equip changes have we had? how many ammo changes? how many rule changes? how many different rules? LOL Heck it was even banned in the past.

Unfair, Unsafe, Unchivalrous

Balin
Aten 101
Fighters not Targets

Balin50

I think some of the things we got soft on and allowed merely because some people wanted it, even though it didn't really fit with what our code of conduct suggests, has caused a lot of grief. I am but one voice in a crowd of many but the disturbance is noticeable even when I am not speaking about i...

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This chivalry argument is bogus...you are not a real knight, you play one in a game. Not a game. A worldwide organization where people in nearly every country would bow and call me sir if we met. I would give them that respect as well because for us there is an element of reality that does not exis...

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Who gets all dressed up in armour to get shot by an arrow? Leo apparently. He also want's people to drop rocks on his head and then of course tell him how pretty his armor is. Not ashamed of it at all. I LIKE the dogs of war. I like being as close to the medieval battlefield as the timid SCA rules ...

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"Untrue. YOU may think that, but I know a couple of archers who's only goal is to shoot as many of the enemy forces as possible to help thier side gain victory." Therefore denying fighter the chance to fight, while they lollygag around in the backfield with impunity and their utter disdai...

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Broadway wrote:Ah jesus christ. I'm agreeing with Johno...

Somebody hand me an Emporor who is shooting lighting from his hands so I can toss him into a reactor core? Please?

What no one agrees with us everyone loves CA

Balin50

I've been fighting in the SCA for about 20 years. In that time, it has become, pretty much, my sport of choice. There were many things that drew me to it, such as armor, and "medievality." When I started I thought anything that would add to that medivality would be cool. I was blind to su...

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"No. It's not my place to rob someone else of their fun like that." That's the job of the CA, actually. Their sole and ONLY goal is to deny fighters the opportunity to fight, while seeking as little risk and as much gratification as possible. I cannot find it in my heart to respect, or co...

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LOL it is amazing that any of you can breath up there. Hell the air up here in Central Pa is wonderful. Lots of farms and very little industry.. I breath just fine. I can faintly smell the Atlantic from my lawn here! And it is really rain falling on your head... Nah, that was earlier today. I live ...

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LOL just saw this
How to...not use a bow

http://www.thesuperficial.com/i_dont_even_know-06-2010

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MJBlazek wrote:
Angusm0628 wrote:
Balin50 wrote:LOL it is amazing that any of you can breath up there.

Hell the air up here in Central Pa is wonderful. Lots of farms and very little industry.. I breath just fine.

I can faintly smell the Atlantic from my lawn here!

And it is really rain falling on your head...

Balin50

People worked their ass off to be a shining beacon, a high profile target, THE thing to kill.. and now bitch cause they get killed. LOL. That's funny. I don't want to be killed or kill my opponent i want to best or be bested by them, or their side. I do not crave Victory i crave the contest. Balin ...

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People worked their ass off to be a shining beacon, a high profile target, THE thing to kill.. and now bitch cause they get killed. LOL. That's funny.[/quote] I don't want to be killed or kill my opponent i want to best or be bested by them, or their side. I do not crave Victory i crave the contest....

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I never said CA was chivalrous. I said I liked it. Then again, a field of 2,000 Syndromes isn't all that impressive either. LOL!!!!! Heck, you'll find 3 times that many in this thread.... . Leo is talking about the possible new peerage for CA when he say Syndromes...FYI CAers are Syndrome

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Don't you have some stalls to clean? Must suck when ya try pulling that Fatheresque "Don't you have homework to do" form of dismissal and the Son in question says.. " Yeah I did it already wanna see my Mr fusion??? " Meanwhile you're still trying to change the mower's sparkplug ...

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Where are the pics of you mucking the stalls rather see those. I mean you splash your pics all over the place already sir and you are the one that speaks of Ego. Is it ego when it's the truth? Umm yes if it was not true it would be Lying. [/quote] I have to say Balin, when you and Johnathan start b...

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Where are the pics of you mucking the stalls rather see those. I mean you splash your pics all over the place already sir and you are the one that speaks of Ego.

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Is it ego when it's the truth?

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Umm yes if it was not true it would be Lying.

Balin50

Don't you have some stalls to clean? Six actually. By grace of God I am fortunate to persue the art of chivalry as done by the knights of old as all knights should. Skill of arms, and skill of horse. Surely you know, surely you practice and maintain the same skills of our knightly ancestors? I am b...