The Armour Archive

Count Johnathan

Seriously where is the bash? What did I say here that was bashing the practice of CA?

I'm sick of your stupidity man really.

Count Johnathan

Sir Gemini, I love the show and I appreciate your humor. Well done and thanks for sharing.

Count Johnathan

You can only condition so much. The mechanism of injury to the head with a thrust from something like a spear is such that you can only mitigate injury so much through strengthening. I'm not on the top end of the calibration spectrum but I can deliver a thrust to the face with a spear that could ca...

Count Johnathan

Agreed, but at the same time, I think this is another point where the rules are vastly out of date with the research. Boiled leather limb defenses? Why would someone have a coif with a thinner part covering their face, while the rest is of a thicker steel? All of the references I have seen historic...

Count Johnathan

As noted we don't much care if we get stabbed really hard in the face. We get stabbed hard everywhere else and our helmets are normally the most burly and sturdy piece of armor. My torso doesn't move like a bobble-head doll when it gets a good solid thrust to it. Conditioning. It helps to prevent i...

Count Johnathan

Yes I suppose experience skews most of our opinions one way or another till we encounter something that contradicts our feelings of safety and acceptability. As noted we don't much care if we get stabbed really hard in the face. We get stabbed hard everywhere else and our helmets are normally the mo...

Count Johnathan

Arrows and bolts and stuff? who cares? Uhh yeah but what if the safety measures failed? That's more my point. Seriously even if the foam on a spear or sword bottoms out or even comes off it's still not going through my grill no matter how hard ya hit me. That isn't the case with a pencil sized fibe...

Count Johnathan

Didn't want to derail the thrusting tip thread but I found this to be odd. I'm not sure what this "touch kill" stuff is all about. I understand not wanting to hurt each other but here in Atenveldt we expect that we are going to be gored if we fail to block a thrust be it from a spear or a ...

Count Johnathan

For game reasons that should be obvious but for some reason aren't, thrusting tips should be mandatory whether you use them or not. IF we are all using swords, we should either all have thrusting tips or disallow them entirely. If leaving off a thrusting tip affects the performance f the sword, the...

Count Johnathan

I've never had a thrusty on a single handed sword other than the random occasions when I might have borrowed one for whatever reason. Thrusting is easy and every time I did use a sword that had one on it I stabbed someone with it just because I could. I don't use them on my own swords though. On my ...

Count Johnathan

Dietrich von Stroheim wrote:Congratulations to you, Sir.

This is inspirational and really puts in in perspective for those who whine about reasons why they can't, instead of finding ways to make it happen.

+1

Count Johnathan

Grats Steve. It is nice to see that a fighter is taking pride in such an accomplishment. Some people think that our sport is "easy" as it is nothing but a bunch of dorks trying to smash each other in a thug contest. Obviously that is anything but true. Part of becoming a better fighter is ...

Count Johnathan

Man, that was below the belt. Have some honor would you. Hey now. Tarragon is the shiznit. So good they named a kingdom after him. Look it up. Of course that was after he left Atenveldt to go conquer the East and became king there. I love that guy. His heroes are members of my household and He is o...

Count Johnathan

Zorro_ZX3000 wrote:Caid? They fight?

Hardly.

And now I am spent. Off to dreamland for me. Night all.

Thx for letting me be an asshole. I'm sure I will hear about it later. Of course I am not a coward so I am comfortable with that unlike some round here.

Off to dreamland for me. Night all.

Count Johnathan

...Dude... Ahh another telling blow. PSI? Come on man. You know your super powered caveman chop would be rendered innefective against my superior Aten defenses. Just give it up now. LOL wait I was getting you confused with artimisiawhatever? but your kingdom ain't much better... top three in no ord...

Count Johnathan

Don't stop now! Show us the full extent of your ninja powers!!!! Although your ...intuition... as to western superiority clearly shows you to be a fighter of uncommon perception. Avery, you became a duke in Caid remember? Put the bong down and walk away. And don't drink the cool aid. Don't get me s...

Count Johnathan

Ok here. Want to know if I'm a fighter. West-in someways the most developed. Now I know you're full of shit. They fight with those itty bitty shields and pretend like they were "presenting you a target" when you rip their right leg off because they were foolish enough to stand like that t...

Count Johnathan

Zorro_ZX3000 wrote:...Dude...

Ahh another telling blow.

PSI? Come on man. You know your super powered caveman chop would be rendered innefective against my superior Aten defenses. Just give it up now.

Count Johnathan

Ok here. Want to know if I'm a fighter. West-in someways the most developed. Now I know you're full of shit. They fight with those itty bitty shields and pretend like they were "presenting you a target" when you rip their right leg off because they were foolish enough to stand like that t...

Count Johnathan

I guess I'm so passionate about this issue because I've always worn minimal armour and feel that many hits aren't painful enough to call. I wear heavier armour from time to time but usually just minimal. Every now and again I get a shot that fucking hurts but not very often. The shot has to at leas...

Count Johnathan

No problem your grace. I figured it would be incongruous to not address that particular statement being how I am and all. As much as I detest arrogance, the best fighting in the sca always seems to be near the same. Some days, I didn't have far to walk. Regards Avery Your concept of far must be ver...

Count Johnathan

What is this about anyways? I tryed very hard to clear up things. You people have been accusing me of dick flashing when, from what I can gather, you'd be fine with it if there was a duke or count in front of my name. What hypocrites you all are. Actually no. I'm a count and I can be a major asshol...

Count Johnathan

No problem your grace. I figured it would be incongruous to not address that particular statement being how I am and all.

Count Johnathan

What is this about anyways? I tryed very hard to clear up things. You people have been accusing me of dick flashing when, from what I can gather, you'd be fine with it if there was a duke or count in front of my name. What hypocrites you all are. Actually no. I'm a count and I can be a major asshol...

Count Johnathan

I actually assumed it was a bit of a remark towards me when BC said... I'll go as far as to say this Anyone who claims they are throwing a blow that is actually hard enough to 'kill' through the chain mail standard that the SCA uses is either... A. exaggerating their own abilities B. mistaken in the...

Count Johnathan

Duncan, I am not sure why people would have scoffed at your dream. Honestly though I am not that old, I am an "old timer" and I have always desired to play in the SCA "as it should have been" but that was always a social concept to me. It meant that we should be good and respectf...

Count Johnathan

It's true. People from the low-lower Midwest will literally talk to people they have never met like they have known them for decades. I do it at Pennsic to people from California and they just can't farging take it. I just stopped talking to them altogether. I used to hate that about California whe...

Count Johnathan

I also think it is a severe disservice to an opponent for a fighter to NOT wear adaquate protection when participating in our sport. It's not tag and if our weapons were real we would often be killing one another. I was with you up until this point on this thread, Johnathan, but here I disagree. I ...

Count Johnathan

I think that some people seriously underestimate the power of a well thrown sword blow as well as the effectiveness of our modern "sport" armor. Also mail, while obviously superior at stopping cuts and slashes, does not do very well at stopping blunt force trauma. It does not take as much ...

Count Johnathan

Atenveldt fields roughly 250 fighters at any given Estrella. I am unsure about the number of active Chiv though. Probably 30 or more at Estrella. Thatâ€™s my guess as a low number of active chiv.

Count Johnathan

Has anyone everr tried using one of those machines that test the force of your hitting. The psi machines or whatever they are? DO those things even work? I think this would work best but i don't know of anyone that has access to one. Also we could really only know what the numbers meant if there wa...

Count Johnathan

That's weird to me. A 1 to 10 scale should be what is thrown at an ok level ( meaning you are unlikely to cause serious injury) and anything above that scale should be what is considered excessive. A guy throwing 10s doesn't bother me. An 11 is where I might say someone should tone it down a bit bec...

Count Johnathan

Sounds like armor profiling to me.

Count Johnathan

I am now capable of throwing 8s, which is the limit in my opinion. 9 browns you out/knock you silly and a 10 is a KO. People who throw 9 all the time should probably get a new car or semi-auto gun to make their wangs feel bigger. Giving people brain damage isn't cool. Being able to throw in the 7-8...

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http://myweb.cableone.net/kenandmindy/skytann.jpg That kit is so ugly it must be intentional. Franken-suit. This kit is so ugly it makes me think that he hits like a ton of bricks. I'm not sure why but I have noticed that veteran fighters who have frighteningly ugly kits normally swing very very ha...

Touch kills, face thrusts and fiberglass rods