The Armour Archive

Count Johnathan

LOL I'll be nice and refrain from further comment. Poor moderator LOL! Brother Johnathan You have shown me a great deal of respect over the years. I would kindly remind you of your earlier comment about refraining and ask you to honor it, regardless of provocation. This discussion is no longer seem...

Count Johnathan

KSCA all the way. Remember it. I don't get what you are trying to say with this statement - could you clarify it? It means what it says. I am KSCA and when it comes to discussing chivalry in the SCA I actually have a clue about it and people should remember that. Let me give you something to chew o...

Count Johnathan

Are you seriously using an argument that compares Combat Archery to Rape? Of course. CA is raping his Dream of the SCA, you see. LOL I like that answer but actually no I was not comparing CA to rape. Obviously rape and CA have nothing to do with each other however as I said "If I said rape was...

Count Johnathan

It's not popular here and you wouldn't have much fun.

I so don't understand why people want to do unchivalrous deeds.

If I said rape was unchivalrous would it make you want to do that? Would it make you want to defend rapists and tell me that it was all a matter of opinion?

Count Johnathan

What was that phrase you posted in the other thread about ego Leo?

Yeah.

Count Johnathan

We have a local historic re-enactment group here in Columbus, and a numbe of them also do SCA becuase it allows them to try stuff they can't really do in their group - specifically, the combat. They've also remarked that the size and scope of the SCA give sit a different 'vibe' even among those who...

Count Johnathan

What that CA isn't a chivalric combat style? Please get real. Tell me what is chivalric about it. Don't give any opinion now, we need cold hard documentable facts about how it is chivalrous so that everyone can understand it. Also explain how missile weaponry isn't taking a sought after range advant...

Count Johnathan

You guys take things far to personally and then decide to throw personal insults in return. I forgive you. I've done it too. I always do think it's funny that people get all hurt and insulted that I want people to do things in a more chivalric manner and in a way that is more fun for the entire grou...

Count Johnathan

Fokke wrote:LH is the way of the future.

I'm not in the SCA to celebrate the future. Have fun in your LH group.

Why do we bother with quotes like "Its not period" if we arent trying to recreate the middle ages.

I don't. Never have. People who want the SCA to be a LH group do that.

Count Johnathan

Baron Alejandro Yeah. Thanks for reminding me. I quit posting on the Politics Forum due to some of the attitudes and the way some people chose to "discuss" things. AND, I go get sucked into it here. Learn and move on. Gorm, Benedek, Leo, MJ, et al - sorry for letting that happen. Balin, J...

Count Johnathan

I just wish they were playing the same game as the rest of the fighters. Clearly there is a massive difference in game play between shooting bows and the clash of swords. In a true period setting yes they very much belong on the same field but in a sporting chivalric contest? Well there's your prob...

Count Johnathan

Does not mean i and other like me will stop opposing it, or that we will stop hoping that people will put down these unchivalrous tools of murder and assassination and join the rest of us in heroic melee combat. Like 4 on one combat, death from behind and dead on the ground? . I like the way you po...

Count Johnathan

MJBlazek wrote:As more and more material comes to light, as to how the Middle Ages really were, if the SCA does not step up and adopt a higher level of accuracy, it will become obsolete, and abandoned.

Wrong but you might go away and that would be ok.

Count Johnathan

Ya damn SCA no one dieing of plagues thought we were recreating history not made up fantasy land, and porta johns and flush toilets!?! Bushes and buckets were good enough for them and thats what we should use. Oh and women having any real say ya that would be better. Sorry if you want living histor...

Count Johnathan

You mean recreating the medieval ages as they should have been? Yeah, I've read the quote in the several sources it was in. The Knowne World handbook was one of the first thing I got in 1986 when I was a LARP geek, and again when I joined the SCA in 1993 to have a historical outlet and get away fro...

Count Johnathan

Nope. I was raised in the environment. I know what's up. I know the changes that have occured and I find it unfortunate for what was always supposed to be a polite society where kids had a place where they could learn to be something better than what todays modern society lays out for them. There we...

Count Johnathan

So, the next time I'm at an event, I'll get me some 2,000 prisoners and gut them all. As the person who did this was a knight, he must have acted in a "knightly fashion". The one great disservice the SCA does to actual historical "history" is it's adherence to the Victorianesque...

Count Johnathan

Nissan Maxima wrote:I hate combat archers because they are boogers.

You lie. You like boogers.

Count Johnathan

Count John, are you talking tournies or battles? The code of conduct and principles behind the act of "fighting" in both is the same. When you take the field in tourney or melee there is no difference in how you are supposed to behave. The rule for both is... 6. Combatants shall behave in...

Count Johnathan

Sometimes I think we lose sight of the truth that while all SCA fighters should strive to be worth of the code of chivalry, most of us will never become members of the chivalry. To say simply that all of our activities must only be activities of a knight is to leave out a great many people who want...

Count Johnathan

...Several of us indigenous Calontiri have a theory that our tube and tennis ball missiles, big, fat, ugly and slow work/play better in the Societies war fighting than shafted missiles... For what it's worth Hugh, even though I don't like CA I agree with your above statement. Contrary to what most ...

Count Johnathan

Yeah I mean you don't want me to be the last person who commented on a CA thread. It makes it seem like I won or something!

YAY ME!

Count Johnathan

LOL I'll be nice and refrain from further comment. Poor moderator LOL!

Count Johnathan

Could you post a pic of the inside where the locking pin is?

From the outside of the helm it looks like it can't come out. I'm sure it does but the angle is strange.

It looks great though. Nice work man.

Count Johnathan

Sharing the experience of battle under the wing of my most trusted protector. Standing against those who came to our land to defeat us in a struggle of warriors clashing with the very real threat of facing bodily harm should we falter. Putting the pain to those who stood against us in those brief mo...

Count Johnathan

Maybe you should consider making it some...

llamalar

Had to do it.

Count Johnathan

"in the spirit of the rule"

(in ghostly voice) Iiii am the GHOST of Ruluuule SIX...... DOOooonnn't be AAAA Dooooucheeee.....

Count Johnathan

I prefer bastard sword. It's faster and requires you to be a little more up close and personal with your opponent.

Greatsword is fun though especially in melee.

Count Johnathan

Make him hit the right spot on the pel a billion times so that he can learn where to target and how to throw it without the nervousness of defending himself. Make him do that until he doesn't hit low anymore. He will be able to see where he is hitting and adjust accordingly without the issue of bash...

Count Johnathan

the wording states helm (full), not helmet (small, cap). either way why dont those who presume a skull cap also take a much lighter sword strike if its below the brow then? i think i got all the things i wanted to respond to....... for now..... regards logan Dude we do. We take very light shots to ...

Count Johnathan

That and I think that peoples concept of stout varies widely depending on who you ask. I've never called a face shot light before. A graze perhaps but not anything that made direct contact with my face. Those I take because it's dumb for me to get hit there. I figure I screwed up when I do so I dese...

Count Johnathan

Maeryk wrote:So why do we require "stout thrusts' with what are effectively spears and open faced helmet?

Well if you have read the rest of what I mentioned previously we don't require stout thrusts. We just don't bitch when they are.

Count Johnathan

Yeah it does. Several people here have stated that a spear jammed in their eyesocket would only piss them off, "in real life", not disable or kill them. LOL I'd be really pissed off if I had a spear jammed in my eye. Really pissed off and really dead. I suggest that people try using a sha...

Count Johnathan

Is that CA bashing? A little sensative are we? Not me. Got no dog in this fight. I just suggested that the CA comparison may have been what caused DeCalmont to comment as he did. Understood but just because I mention it doesn't mean I bashed it. This time I didn't. I'm not pretending that I haven't...

Count Johnathan

Is that CA bashing? A little sensative are we? It's more just an observation really. Like we hear people complain about face thrusts and we think "pshaw wussies" and you guys hear us complain about certain equipment being dangerous and you guys think "pshaw wussies". I just think...

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