The Armour Archive

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This one.

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I have been listening to computer generated text to speech books for over a decade now and I've just re-installed the software and started to download a new voice for it and I was wondering if there was any interest among people for them. It would probably be about $2 per book to download the MP3 fi...

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They are leather armour, with braided cords, when you see the large images under his section describing the equipment. The rods mentioned in passing, are actually wood, of all things, and he mentions them as inferior tournament equipment in Flanders. I'd love to see the evidence or reasoning that t...

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I'm 6' 230ish and that's to big for my legs.

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They are leather armour, with braided cords, when you see the large images under his section describing the equipment. The rods mentioned in passing, are actually wood, of all things, and he mentions them as inferior tournament equipment in Flanders. I'd love to see the evidence or reasoning that t...

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Not a researched answer but I'd say hair color. My grandfather is called Blackie because he has black hair and lives in MN with a bunch of blondes.

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Henry V would certainly be a candidate out of Europe.

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While you should certainly rule out neurological problems, I would recomend you look at your diet especially on the days your fighting. It doesn't explain the electric feeling but your other symptoms are certainly consistent with mine from blood sugar problems from not having the right energy for wh...

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Russ Mitchell wrote:Yes, but the problem is, said conversation you've just been having... is now pretty much dead, b/c you've killed the thread by making the perfect the enemy of the good, instead of saying:

So what your saying is that I was successful. If this thread constitutes good then Lord help us.

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Contact Morgan here on the AA, he should be able to help you get what you need and hook you up.

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No matter how much you read, there is always an empty windbag that has spent more time gathering citations and who can drown you with examples whether valid or not. I'm not sure I'd call Alejandro a windbag. He's just Obfuscatorial. Rowan I'm not interested in being respected and yet I have the res...

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Per More's " Utopia ", I'll be darned if I can find the specific references in my books. But my primary professor (Dr. Walter Payne) constantly harped upon it, and as his primary professor was Dr. John Francis Bannon, who's primary professor in turn was Dr. Herbert E. Bolton, both conside...

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Sorry I didn't even make it to your post. I only took one graduate seminar in Colonial Mexico and one of the historiographical issues we covered was the conquest of the Mexica. Even keeping up with such a disasterous historiography is a task let alone being familiar with all the Spanish and Europea...

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I did *not* do this, and almost did, so gents, please keep firing away and discussing/disputing. These sorts of informed debates are exactly what I love seeing on this forum. Russ I really thought you had higher standards then to call this an informed debate. I would think you being knowledgeable i...

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This thread is a perfect example why a bunch of people who are poorly read in a complicated historiographical problem should spend their time reading about the subject instead of argueing with other people who don't know enough to really help you to understand whats going on. Brent, since I actuall...

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Glen K wrote:Then post some books for sale, especially ones I like, or you'll be banned.

If I had something I knew you'd really like I'd probably just send it to you or use it as a trade for Venus and Mars.

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Baron Alejandro wrote:I thought you were leaving, anyway.

I gave up on trying because I have books to sell although I've gotten lax in it. Plus every time I say I am the amount of fan mail I get goes up.

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This thread is a perfect example why a bunch of people who are poorly read in a complicated historiographical problem should spend their time reading about the subject instead of argueing with other people who don't know enough to really help you to understand whats going on.

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The reality of the decline of sources is somewhat false as well. The survival of most works from antiquity is from them being copied. For what ever reason outside of Church fathers there wasn't much considered worth copying from that period. What we do find starting in the 6th century is an increase...

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It would change the range game drastically. At a distance unless you had a longer then average sword it wouldn't be worth it but once you get in close you wouldn't have to look. Reach down to strike at the shin and you will open your head. You have to put the sword down there, at which point it isn...

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We have our SCA fighter practice up on a hill above them (Amtgard) in the same park. On occasion, a few of us would walk down and play around with the Amtgard guys just to fight in bigger melees (they always had allot more people). I stopped going after I got hit by a bean-bag fireball... The key i...

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Out of curiosity, I was under the impression that the "white belt" thing was an SCA thing. I've never seen a historical finding and basis for it in years of study, and beyond one picture that is often offered up for the basis for the SCA because the belt isn't "colored" in the p...

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Piers: Actually, there are HUGE divisions between the orthodox Lutherans and the Eastern Orthodox, starting with the role of scripture and the nature of the Trinity. Most "High Protestants" and Catholics tend to find the doctrinal differences small... most Orthodox tend to go bug-eyed and...

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Firstly if you want to understand the Church's role in history you pretty much have to forget everything you've been taught because the study of Church history is plagued by 500 years of propaganda, and nearly 1000 if you start looking at East/West stuff. It is only in the wake of Vatican II that th...

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mm... And here I thought a polearm *was* a long weapon. Missed my point. Although I do wonder how effective a polearm would be against someones lower leg in a full or near full case leg. I would suspect that unless the leg was in a position to force it from not moving that you wouldn't likely not g...

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Coming from a history background I've never understood this desire to over complicate what is a source, or a primary source, or a secondary source, or a tertiary source, although we do seem to have moved away from those terms towards source and secondary works. A source, or what is often called a pr...

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Joaquin wrote:The Church deserves a certain measure of credit for the preservation of literacy in the West if nothing else.

Isn't that how the Irish Saved Civilization.

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Still, there was a decline in Classical learning. Whether this decline was a symptom or a cause or both is a matter of argumen, but the lack of classical learning goes hand in hand with the decline of the Western Empire. Why the Empire declined and was eventually dissolved is an even larger argueme...

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I think you probably should but one of the problem with using acrylics is that they are very consistent and dry quickly so they tend not to look right unless you take a little extra time to pay extra attention to shading to make sure that it doesn't look flat. Compare the image you painted to the on...

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Unlikely. If your only combat experience is SCA, an Amtgard sword knight would wreck you (for certain definitions of "wreck," i.e. hit you really fast before you know what's going on, but not hit you all that hard). If other people can be wizards or what not, why can't I be a god. You kno...

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Unlikely. If your only combat experience is SCA, an Amtgard sword knight would wreck you (for certain definitions of "wreck," i.e. hit you really fast before you know what's going on, but not hit you all that hard). If other people can be wizards or what not, why can't I be a god. You kno...

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Target Shin in Air + (Polearm Blow x (Full Speed + Full Force)) = Blown Knee I disagree. There are many groups outside the SCA who do this. Why is the injury level of these groups no different than the SCA? Minimum armour standards. If people were required to wear full legs it should be fine.

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But to go the other direction, those of you perhaps thinking that full leg targeting in SCA combat is a good idea, please consider this formula: Target Shin in Air + (Polearm Blow x (Full Speed + Full Force)) = Blown Knee It's like clipping in american football. Allowing it would re...

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If anyone is in central Texas and would like to try a bit with combat and a storyline, my group is having what will be a pretty cool event on the last weekend in January. The website with more info is m and the event specific info is the Midreign link to the left. I will also be around for question...

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I started in a similar groups called HFS, best time of my life.

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