The Armour Archive

Count Johnathan

Basically I think this is just a hot-button issue for me, or at least it has become one. For years I've just continued to smile and nod when people used language about how superior fighters were who used smaller shields. The unspoken (and sometimes spoken) other half of that is anyone not using a s...

Count Johnathan

Yeah if you value the use of your fingers I would encourage having gaunts that ground out or at least are extremely well padded.

It's not a rule but it's a damned good idea.

Count Johnathan

Greetings Fellow Archivists I am considering enacting a shield size law for Crown Tournaments only, should I win Western Crown (something I do not assume I will be able to do but it behooves me to plan ahead). I invite your civil discussion and I promise I will give all views detailed consideration...

Count Johnathan

You're keeping the bar set high GP. Nice work.

Count Johnathan

Which is exactly why I try to always throw 8s and above regardless of what I am willing to accept as a finishing blow.

Count Johnathan

Here is the new one we just completed for my father. Same build only it was a slightly larger tire and rim that the post went all the way through so there was no need for a bolt system. The base is filled with 60lbs of concrete so total the base weighs around 100lbs. Tip: when wrapping carpet around...

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m Normally I sink my pel into the ground a few feet but since I moved a few months ago I decided to try a mobile pel. I took a 4x4 a little less than 6 feet long and bolted it through a 5lb weight, a tire inflated still on rim and then poured concrete on top. I then wrapped it in several layers of c...

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Looks great! What's it made of ?

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droool....

Just curious, you ever do any stainless steel work Jiri?

Count Johnathan

To the OP The reasons they started fighting varied for most but all in all it was for fun and to immerse the original band of spectators and fighters in a medieval atmosphere. It was so they could honor their ladies in a medieval tournament fashion, whack each other with sticks, explore chivalric id...

Count Johnathan

In a game where everyone loses fights with such frequency it is easier to not be so focused on winning. Intent on a goal is ok because it is rewarding to accomplish such a task that will bring great happiness and satisfaction though. Determination if not with malice or anger and not overriding honor...

Count Johnathan

Personally, I don't recommend a tire pell, but if it your only option don't hit it very hard. No more than 75% power. Just my two cents. Thor. Dumb question: Why? I'm curious as well. Thanks, Steven Cause it is quite possible that if you hit it full power it might bounce back and knock your teeth o...

Count Johnathan

I agree whole heartedly with your perspective Kevin. Good post. As a rattan fighter in the SCA I have seen many who do practice our fighting with a serious martial artist mindset and others who treat it like a game where they get to club folks like wild cavemen. Both are correct in their approach ye...

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I once was going to take a class in chow-dung but then I thought better of it. All funny aside I have always been shocked by the lack of transfer from one martial art to another. I have seen many perform their eastern martial arts with grace and style. Then when they come play SCA rattan swordfighti...

Count Johnathan

Damnit. Now our martial art/ sport/ whatever has been reduced to an elephant with blind men touching its...ahem parts.

That's just great.

Better than a lonely rhino I guess.

Count Johnathan

I like to refer to SCA rattan combat as a martial sport. In training yes it is a martial art but our practical application of it is in a sporting sense. From wiki - Martial arts or fighting arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat . Martial arts all have a very si...

Count Johnathan

Nice one Vitus. Could you please tell us what materials were used in crafting this fine weapon? Maybe a little construction rundown? Thx

Count Johnathan

What would you think of a big, strong fighter, that as long as he wins he throws 5s and praises you, but if you manage to 'kill' him he starts throwing scowls and 10s? What is that man teaching? Is that knightly? Regards Avery I find that very sad. He is teaching his opponents that he is weak in th...

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With respect, I earnestly believe that overly large shields are eroding our art, and that it is being done to prop up egos (or defensively - "keeping up with the neighbors". Hence, my use of the phrase 'intractable differences' in my proposal, which was in turn meant to avoid this discuss...

Count Johnathan

Not in my experience. Depends on where you live and the local flavor I guess. I don't hold the size of a manâ€™s shield against them. I feel that no matter what size shield they are fighting with it is up to me to overcome it. Large shields do have drawbacks as well, limiting vision for the user, mo...

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24inch shield is not the same on us fyi It seems that point gets lost often times, or glossed over in the resolve Uther When I first met you your name was Cleaval (spel?) and you fought with a shield the size of a dinner plate. Most people probably don't remember that. When I started I also fought ...

Count Johnathan

2 arms, some ribs, a leg....probably a few fingers. A few knockouts too. The first arm was a combination of armour failure and shot power in a singles match when I had told a friend of mine who knew me as a child that I had been training very seriously and for his sake he should not underestimate m...

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2 arms, some ribs, a leg....probably a few fingers. A few knockouts too. The first arm was a combination of armour failure and shot power in a singles match when I had told a friend of mine who knew me as a child that I had been training very seriously and for his sake he should not underestimate me...

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Not to put words in our KC's mouth but while talking about extrication from armor, we agreed that some one better already be dead (or nearly so) before a chirurgeon starts cutting off armor with out permission. I felt that way once.... then I watched a man in nearly full plate die from a heart atta...

Count Johnathan

Pain is temporary, glory is forever.... well at least for the day anyway. Maybe someone will tell a story about it sometime and remind you of that time when you did that thing.

It happens sometimes.

Count Johnathan

My father...as brutal as his mentality may be...always said to me (and still does)... "Remember son, that man has to be able to go to work on Monday." That statement really hit home for me the first time I broke a fighters arm. I like the man a great deal and I felt aweful that for 6 weeks...

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ohhh i so would have owned you! nothing but love brother, nothing but love. logan If you cut half of the bottom length off of that it would be as long as the one I used roughly. That's the point. My opponents would see it and think "Hah the fool is only fighting with half a weapon this will be...

Count Johnathan

If I was the marshal I would institute a rule that no part of the arrow or bolt would be small enough to pass through the netting. This would include the shaft regarless of the head or APD. Also I would make it so that if at any time an arrow should stray from the field beyond the netting for any re...

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I'm asking this- When your squire gets armed he needs to go to the edge of the list and take a sword or mace from somebody so he can fight one-handed, right? Right. Who is standing at the edge of the lists holding his sword/mace while he is fighting poleaxe- holding this weapon in case he gets arme...

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Oh all right damnit. Saw the pic with the netting. It does make the melee with CA more accessible to the spectators. I am surprised how little it seem to impact the overall look at least in pictures anyway. I think it's great the issue of spectator safety can be adressed so quickly with such a syste...

Count Johnathan

If you cut half of the bottom length off of that it would be as long as the one I used roughly.

Count Johnathan

I'm curious on those here who are either reading or responding to this topic are great weapon fighters and what they think of this? Specially since in our current way of doing things, if they get an arm or a leg, they get a nice advantage over the single sword welding person they are fighting. That...

Count Johnathan

That's why I used a very short one compared to all others I have seen before. There was very little torque and it was really no different than fighting 2 sword other than the fact that I could not chop with it. The easiest thing for my opponents to do was to strike my arm. Other than that defense wa...

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Throughout history, men of true worth wore the best arms and armor that were available to them in thier time. Serfs and villiens wore what they could scrounge up or the clothes on thier backs. That is all. If this were true of our game as it was in some periods of history we should be more concerne...

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If we went strictly to this sort of system there would be no more chivalric examples of giving up the earned advantage to keep the fight on an even keel. This is subjective, of course, but I say good riddance. Why on earth would you disable an opponent to gain an advantage, and then disable yoursel...

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