If someone facing me in a melee turns their back upon me while still in range of my spear, I can still hit them until they leave weapon's range.
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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"
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- Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:44 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
- Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:33 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Online fabric - wool flannel!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15
- Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:14 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Boxers are period ! NEENER NEENER!!!!!!!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24
But femenalia are OUTER wear. Hmmm... I have seen girls wearing them as shorts... Based on a description of Roman underwear given to me by Quitus (Matt Amt), I made what basicly looks like a linen jockstrap. Let us move quickly along away from this disturbing image. Me in a thong is sort of like a p...
- Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:51 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Bad Personae! no Donut!
- Replies: 141
- Views: 241
- Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:48 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
Capt- not really. There are many instances where I can kill you with my spear while you can do basicly zip about it except pray and cannot get to me because your shieldwall and my shieldwall are between us. In the meantime, I have successfully dodged or blocked incoming arrows. Missile weapons were ...
- Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:51 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Indian Bascinets Shaping up ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11
- Sun Oct 12, 2003 6:44 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Bad Personae! no Donut!
- Replies: 141
- Views: 241
Kass- but what about what the book doesn't say? If you know the answer because you found it in some obscure source, shouldn't you at least say where to look? If I ask about a particular detail of your garb, should your response be to tell me to go to the internet? Half the time, I don't even know th...
- Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:43 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Bad Personae! no Donut!
- Replies: 141
- Views: 241
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">What's wrong with picking up a book of your very own? While I have no problem with helping people improve themselves, we will not do research for them.</font> But too often, you can't get some people to even tell you where to look, or even tell you if you are as...
- Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:21 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
- Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:17 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Bad Personae! no Donut!
- Replies: 141
- Views: 241
Elaswhere I've posted pictures of my armor. Absolutely not 100% authentic, and for most of the "errors", they were deliberate choices. My helm is not to any particular design, but gives the overall "Roman" look; I could not find a better one when I got it, and the ones available NOW i could not have...
- Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:10 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Bad Personae! no Donut!
- Replies: 141
- Views: 241
Lach- yep, almost all of my clothing is made from linen and wool. My two fancy tunica are silk (although now I have to replace it thanks to Kass' info on silk!) and cotton (which was very expensive for Rome, but available). When I tell people and explain about how much better these fabrics perform f...
- Sat Oct 11, 2003 5:52 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Bad Personae! no Donut!
- Replies: 141
- Views: 241
All I can say is that as I've strived to improve, all I've ever gotten was "That is so cool!" in response. Even when I was wearing transitional plate, the worst I ever heard was, "I don't get why you want to wear all that weight, but it looks great". ------------------ Owen "Death is but a doorway- ...
- Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:06 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Bad Personae! no Donut!
- Replies: 141
- Views: 241
Where are all these authenticity hating people in the SCA? I know lots of folks that don't care to be completely, or even more than minimally authentic, but I don't think I've ever seen actual hostility to it. The only tidbit of truth I can dicern is hostility towards obnoxious thread-counters and s...
- Fri Oct 10, 2003 7:24 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Authenticity of Butted Mail
- Replies: 29
- Views: 39
- Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:21 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
Otto- but would you say that because you and others might fight in a battle with no spears, that we should remove spears from the field because fighters don't want to face them? I'm not a "spear god", but I do ok. I LIKE fighting in CA battles, as it gives me a different kind of fight. Keeps me on m...
- Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:27 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Bad Personae! no Donut!
- Replies: 141
- Views: 241
- Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:57 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
I wonder what would happen if you held two parellel battles, one with spears allowed and one without. Aside from the spearmen, how many others would show up, if they had the option to not face spears? I think a more useful comparison would be to have several battles, alternating with and without CA,...
- Thu Oct 09, 2003 4:48 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Roman personas
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22
Roman Legionary in the Legio XX. I freely admit that I make one major leap; I've been doing this too long to switch names NOW, so I assume that my name in British is an early form of the later Welsh name "Owen", which was then latinized. M. Didius Ovenus was born two years after the Legio XX partici...
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:22 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA-Fighting Persona Styles vs. all styles
- Replies: 18
- Views: 39
A cudgel? Do you take me for some farmer?! A Vitus is what a Centurion carries! Which is so appropriate, because it means "vine staff", and rattan comes bloody close! That's next, but I want to figure out a way to make it look more like a twisted vine. The dolabra is made from dense close cell, the ...
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 5:10 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA-Fighting Persona Styles vs. all styles
- Replies: 18
- Views: 39
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:56 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA-Fighting Persona Styles vs. all styles
- Replies: 18
- Views: 39
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:17 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Got Goat?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:03 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA-Fighting Persona Styles vs. all styles
- Replies: 18
- Views: 39
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 5:14 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
Duke Logan- every archer I knows DOES control their weapon. I think that your complaint is exactly what I said; similer to complaining that spears can hit you while you can't hit them. Saying it allows "weak" fighters to kill a (presumably) stronger one is the same. I can kill someone that is much b...
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 5:07 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA-Fighting Persona Styles vs. all styles
- Replies: 18
- Views: 39
Very true. I decided that, given that we can't use the standard Legionary weapons in the same fashion or effectiveness, I should not limit myself to scutum and gladius. That system is most effective in large groups, we can't use a scutum to do many of the things a big shield is good for (like bashin...
- Wed Oct 08, 2003 5:03 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Strange question about spear grabbing...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7
- Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:40 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: ???HUH???
- Replies: 28
- Views: 32
- Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:36 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Something new
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11
- Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:29 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Porkchop/throwing axe. Bitchin' or BS?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 40
- Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:20 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">"however, combat archers do not have to meet that requirement. they simply must lob their weapon, with no control, into a fray. should it make contact with a fighter he is bested. that does not req...
- Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:56 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Help ID a katana
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10
from the PvP website- Actually, it's called a "tang" Posted on Saturday, October 4, 2003 One bit of data our survey failed to capture was the amount of PvP readers with direct knoweldge of WW2 era japanese katanas. I have been provided with a wealth of information on the sword my cousin inherited fr...
- Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:08 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Help ID a katana
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10
- Sun Oct 05, 2003 8:25 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Help ID a katana
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10
Help ID a katana
I'm a fan of the comic PVP, and the artist has posted about a katana that his cousin has, brought home in WWII by his father; dad never talked about the war, so they don't have any information about it. The info is in the news section for 10/4. http://www.pvponline.com/index.php3 Pics- [img]http://w...
- Sat Oct 04, 2003 9:01 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Bad Personae! no Donut!
- Replies: 141
- Views: 241
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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"
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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"
- Sat Oct 04, 2003 6:27 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Wow you can call arrows light, sweet, at pennsic i had one skip of my demi gaunt and then brush the side of my helm, the marshal, also wearing his white belt and pointy hat told me i had better ack...