The Armour Archive

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I suspect that if you were struck by the throwing arm about 2 feet from the tip at the peak of tip's swing, there might indeed be that much force, assuming the wood didn't snap.

Try not to get whacked by the throwing arm in any event

Gaston

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Pell practice.

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I'm not seeing the thread for some reason?

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

This topic is close to me since my knight and I have committed to a similar feat at Pennsic 34 (more on that later). As to the question of the royal command, I see this as an example of good kingship. This gentle wanted to test himself and to do this deed for which some paised him and others denegra...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Christophe de Friselle wrote:
Gaston de Vieuxchamps wrote:Is this welded Ti mail available online somewhere? I think that's what Baldar ordered. I can't wait to see how it looks!

http://www.weldedchainmail.com

The page seems broken. I get the home page but all the links come up "page not found"

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Is this welded Ti mail available online somewhere? I think that's what Baldar ordered. I can't wait to see how it looks!

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

While length of a fighters arms (hopefully proportional to height) is a great advantage, several other physical attributes are more important. Hand and foot speed are important to defeating height. Coordination is important. Couple these things together and height is easily defeated. Skill on the o...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

To attack while your opponent is in a guard and before he has created a tempo for you to attack in by moving his weapon or body can be suicidal if as you do so you come into distance... Heh. Leave it to the WMA guy to assume we are fighting at a "proper range" where foot movement is needed for an e...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Energy management and mental response to physical distress is an important facet of being a good man at arms. A link posted on legio draconis: m Thanks. that article is great! I do believe in the "facilitating more efficient neuromuscular coordination" brought on by excercise. I also believe you ca...

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Helmet is a good choice. Barring that, Thorstenn just got himself some nice lamelar body armour to replace the bulky monstrosity he used to wear under a generiviking tunic. It has vastly improved his appearance and also seems quite functional.

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The weapons Aveloc makes now are not SCA legal. Since he was banned from participating in the SCA, there's not much point in him paying too much attention to SCA rules. However, he used to make great SCA legal weapons. He employed a number of techniques. Some of the things that contributed the most ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

All else being equal, it is definitely an advantage in our game to be taller. It is also an advantage to be stronger. It is also an advantage being heavier, so long as the extra weight is not mostly fat. Luckily, all else is rarely equal. Especially skill. Skill can overcome any physical disadvantag...

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Different coin, different outcome. Marshal ws fighting for his livelihood; they were sustained by the ransom purse, the the most efficient and expedient capture was the best. True enough. Except that in so doing he also earned great renoun. He was not only sucessful financially but held up as a par...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Great question! I think that being on offense is a bigger advantage in the real world than it is under most any sporting rules set. Largely for psychological reasons but also because of the real effects of real attacks, even when defended. That said... When I fight spear, I definitely find that it's...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I think we have a very interesting idea of what the medieval ideal and even the romantic version is. Methinks William Marshal, coming upon an opponent unawares or from behind would consider it selfish vainglory to try and "engage" him. The proper action in a tournament would be to drag him to the gr...

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Thank you, Gaston. I'm making a few others for folks local to me who can be fit in-person and that's basically my 'niche' --.... I might be out of luck. I'm in Florida. I also am skipping Pennsic this year because I'm back in school. (I'll be back next year right after graduation.) Your stuff looks...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I'm agin it!

Mostly just because I am. I train to be a fighter, not to fight a certain weekend or a certain fight. I have some thinly logical reasons, but mostly it's just tude.

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Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Both arms & legs are attached to an arming doublet. It fits tight enough around the waist for most of the weight of the legs to be borne by the waist. I prefer this method for under a cuirass because it precludes the doublet riding up in the waist during movement. Mine looked more like what people ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Marcele wrote:I recently made a custom-fitted garment for this purpose for Asbjorn, who is on this board, and he was kind enough to allow me to take some pictures of him wearing it.
-Tasha

That looks AWESOME. How can I get you to make me one?

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Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I do my stuff in 18 ga galvy, 3/16 ID. Haven't tried 16 before, not sure my wrists would like that. As has been said already, try doing some riveted. Same ID, but in 18, 20, or even 22 gauge. Rivets work niiiiiice. -Mag =) I've never seen rivited mail with rings that small. Could you post some pict...

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Sir Mord is correct about prowess. Still, it cannot be denied that sword and shield has the greatest advantage overall over every other style for single combat under our rules system. People who like to win will nearly always choose sword and shield as a primary style. The few exceptions are all two...

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I switched to a small centergrip because it is the only "sword and shield" style we have manuals for and I have been fascinated by I33 for a long time. I now finally own the recent translation and the redaction from Australia and read them as time permits, re-examining my technique and trying to inc...

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I suspect the lacing actually contributed significantly to defense. The likelihood of having all the laces cut on a particular section so that it falls appart are slim and in the meantime it acts as ablative armour. Just a theory.

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DKFB was used at the one Estrella I went to and it seemed to work very well. Much more "realistic" fighting since there is actually an advantage to outmanuevering your opponent. It also seems a LOT easier to get people to acknowledge your presense when the rule is in effect because there are consequ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

I think it's easy to blame video games but there were videos games when I was young too, and I played them plenty. We have done a crappy job of keeping the game fun for younger folks and an even crappier job of recruiting them. Oldenfeld used to be college-based at FSU and isn't anymore, though prac...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Your "rules of engagement" sound way more reasonable than many I have read. I think the picture is misleading and confusing. The way I read it, it is simply an (unnecessary) example of someone's potential field of vision. It doesn't seem to be a depiction of an arc from which an attack can come but ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Done! 1) WHY did they do it? That seems like the easy part to me. Having played armound with a lot of shield shapes fighting in the SCA, I can say with a high dergree of confidence than 3D shapes have advantages for fighting. Formost is the fact that puting the center of gravity of the shield "behi...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s a bit surprising to read your complaint, as your gauntlets were shipped out on February 5, 2004, and the delivery confirmation information shows they were delivered on February 12, 2004. If you didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t receive them, itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s understandable that youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re upset. Rather than ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Much better helmets on average. Better looking fabric portions of people's fighitng outfits. Instead of the generic rectangle with a neck hole, we see a wider variety of actual authentic styles and shapes. The armour itself might be a wee bit better on average around here but I'm not convinced. Smal...

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Trimaris has never had side or top of the head thrusts. Meridies is the same at least for a very long time. Ansteorra used to allow them and it wasn't until about Gulf Wars 6 that Trimaris and Ansteorra even realized they had a different rule for this. Since then, I believe ansteorra has changed the...

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owen you are correct. there is no longer an illustration of the legal angle of attack for attacking from behind available anywhere that I can find. I still have the picture of the little man with a field of vision and whe angle where they wrote that any strikes behind that angle were considered fro...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

There was a thread a while back on the authenticity of center-grip heaters and several examples were given.

I think that they are quite useful for what we do. I think any center-grip that is longer than it is tall and has some sort of contours is good.

Give it a try.

Gaston

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What if 12' were allowed and encouraged but you were not allowed to strike to the head with them at all? That would address the safty issue (they are harder to control and tend to hit harder) as well a providing a trade-off. There would still be a reason to stick to 9' I agree that 12s are "cheasy" ...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

Not to derail the discussion or anything, but from personal experience, I'd much rather be hit in the head with a 7.5 ft unpadded polearm than an heavily padded 7.5 polearm. In my experience, the extra mass out at the end made a huge difference in the imparted velocity to my helmet. Once you get to...

Gaston de Vieuxchamps

This does not include japanese armours, but I can account for the weights of the suits that I have researched for late 14th century. Top to bottom - basinet to sabatons with a segmented breastplate, aventail and maille haubergeons, etc - with slight variations due to size they ranged from 45 to 58 ...

Re: Attacks, tempo and distance