The Armour Archive

Maeryk

Maeryk, I am not disagreeing that CA can being something to the game. I just don't feel that in its current form is is appropriately safe or balanced. Other issues, such as the high number of archers who yield at first thought that they might get hit also detracts from their popularity with many he...

Maeryk

Might I point out that this: Use arrows and bolts that are safer than fiberglass shafts, limit the number of arrows someone can take on the field at one time, and limit either the targeting to faceplates or armor as worn, or require that the arrows hit with full force, and like any other blow I GET...

Maeryk

The rules do need tweaking. Hmm.. could you send a phalanx out to take them out early in the game? Mount counter-archers? Tweak the scenarios so they aren't so game altering? There is, I suspect, a common ground neither extreme fringe even WISHES to find, and that's the real shame of it. The rules ...

Maeryk

It just so happens that the current state of the rules makes archer's tactical situation untenable at a significantly larger number of times than other weapons forms. That's the legitimate and game balancing tradeoff...archers are the ultimate ranged weapon, next to useless in hand to hand, but wit...

Maeryk

Does anyone have a simple alternative to using a big, ugly shield basket? I have been playing around with using doubled up 10 oz leather as a hand guard on the back of my shield but have yet to come up with a design that adequately protects my fingers from squishification (technical term). Before a...

Maeryk

BTW.. if you see any aspects you like, I can try and remember how I did it. Happy to give advice.

Maeryk

Most archers yield most of the time. You may be an exception, but the issue is that I get to be their target, and they don't get to be mine. But they are your target, you have won your combat by forcing them to yield. Well done, huzzah. All that you did not get was a chance to inflict a contusion b...

Maeryk

If I may, I think the issue is one of attitude and custom, not of the narrow weapon one is wielding at the moment. If archers routinely slung back their bows and arbalests (since they cannot drop them) behind their backs and took a dagger, sword or buckler, and fought off the heavies, the matter wo...

Maeryk

The leather covering sounds like a fun project. I have been mulling a barbarian style! Leather & fur! Once I get my steel upgrade, I may just convert this plastic to that! The paint does come off but I feel its okay, it makes the armor seem used, battleworn, in some wh40k cartoony way of course...

Maeryk

I don't yield on the field. Ever. That's not admirable or brave, just a personal habit. -- Oh, except this one time. Why did I yield? Because I'd managed to lose my weapon and was caught empty-handed; therefore it was impossible for me to even engage my opponent. Which is exactly the situation arch...

Maeryk

Looks good! Just a note, with a hacksaw, some black barrels, a heat gun and some imagination, you can get an even better looking kit tailored to yourself.. It's not hard to make plastic armor.. it's not much harder to make it look good.. (IE.. it might take two or three barrels, but get the smooth o...

Maeryk

Just raising my hand to make a point.. words like "coward" and "unchivalrous" and such tend to make it an emotional rather than logical discussion. As Gorm pointed out, in some places the rules are set up so an archer MUST quit, most of the time. I do not, personally find it &quo...

Maeryk

Second question, if I am an archer without a backup weapon, and I've expended all arrows, am I a legal target for a heavy fighter? I'm effectively disarmed, and can you hit a disarmed opponent legally? -Aaron Again Yes. It is legal since the opponent is fully armored. Yep. Cup shots are legal too. ...

Maeryk

Do I agree that some folks game the system? Yes. We had a spear fighter who would ALWAYS drop their spear when they got pressed, meaning a hold and reset. You call a hold in a melee when someone drops a weapon????? not around here! again, EK rules: CM5. A fighter who has lost his weapon during a me...

Maeryk

Max, Can you predict how many nerds never got a real job and what their lack of economic impact might have been if they had not joined the SCA and dropped out of real life? or How many dorks actually got laid because of the SCA? my prediction is almost all of them! or How many rental dollars did th...

Maeryk

There are many reasons to yield. You are scared. your armor has failed. you are injured. You are about to go down from heat. as many reasons as there are fighters. Do I agree that some folks game the system? Yes. We had a spear fighter who would ALWAYS drop their spear when they got pressed, meaning...

Maeryk

I won't again point out the reference to pain and "lumps".. that started some unpleasantness But that is *exactly* the issue for some of us. You want to dish it out but you can't take it makes you a coward in my book. 0 respect. OTOH you can't dish very well, but can take it plenty of res...

Maeryk

Tattoos, accurate. Haircut, unfortunate.

Maeryk

Hmm.. Parsing Maeryk's "It's probably easier" sentence, I'm still confused. It may be the reference to "slats" that is throwing me, since I don't know what he means by that it this context. I reading it as "slat" being synonymous with "spoke". Thats it.. spec...

Maeryk

Fighters fight. So, yielding is always bad? Well, is bad sex always bad? It's kind of like that to me. I earned the shot through my awesomeness (or because they missed). Should I not get the satisfaction of getting the kill? Archers are supposed to be armoured and they are on the battlefield, shoot...

Maeryk

audax wrote:Fighters fight.

So, yielding is always bad?

Maeryk

I had the same problem.. turned out it was constricting over my temples, and that spot on the back of my head just below the "knob" in your skull.. relieving some of that fixed it.

Maeryk

I'm simply using the quote button.

Not sure what the hell he is doing.

Maeryk

dragonjohn wrote:If only the PO knew what that was used for.....

Dude.. if there aren't bruised asses and at least one possible harassment suit over the handling of that piece of mail, I'd be totally surprised.

Maeryk

What problem? Oh and what beleifs do you follow that only allow you to swear an oath to your wife? Guess being a Doctor is out then . What belief system is it that says that a person can not swear an oath? Balin Some sects of Judaism, many branches of Christianity, Jehovah's Witnesses, and there ar...

Maeryk

What problem? Oh and what beleifs do you follow that only allow you to swear an oath to your wife? Guess being a Doctor is out then . What belief system is it that says that a person can not swear an oath? Balin Some sects of Judaism, many branches of Christianity, Jehovah's Witnesses, and there ar...

Maeryk

Balin50 wrote:What about those that just do not want to swear an oath no belief thing just don't wanna?

Balin

What about them? That's WHY the MoA was created.

That some kingdoms and some jackanapes have decided "That was a bad idea"(tm) makes no difference.. it's exactly why it's there.

Maeryk

No, I don't see. I cannot swear an Oath to a man. The only Oath I can swear is to my wife, and I have. So you are wrong.. it's very much a "real" Oath when I swear fealty to someone in the SCA, as it's ME doing the swearing. not some cardboard cutout, not a photograph, but ME. and I am re...

Maeryk

No, I don't see. I cannot swear an Oath to a man. The only Oath I can swear is to my wife, and I have. So you are wrong.. it's very much a "real" Oath when I swear fealty to someone in the SCA, as it's ME doing the swearing. not some cardboard cutout, not a photograph, but ME. and I am re...

Maeryk

Sigh really? Ok the pretend oath means something in the pretend game. If my Crown called me up one weekend and told me to come mow his lawn i would tell him to get bent, but at an event i will serve tables if my crown asks. Opposed to real world oaths like the Hippocratic Oath which a doctor would ...

Maeryk

Either it's meaningless, therefore someone whose beliefs and religion preclude them from swearing oaths should be able to do it, or it has meaning, and they wouldn't. You've now stated both sides.. which is it? If it's a pretend oath to a pretend crown, then it's meaningless. If it's a real oath th...

Maeryk

Either it's meaningless, therefore someone whose beliefs and religion preclude them from swearing oaths should be able to do it, or it has meaning, and they wouldn't. You've now stated both sides.. which is it? If it's a pretend oath to a pretend crown, then it's meaningless. If it's a real oath tha...

Maeryk

You are still in the real world when you sign in under a different name to play your swordfighting game. Golf just has different conventions and rules. Both are games, both are in the real world. Wow ok dumbass do you pretend to be someone else when you golf sign in under a different name in callig...

Maeryk

Hanging myself? With whom? Are "they" going to get me? LOL you are so funny Maeryk... really. Balin 160 posts. several THOUSAND views. Many more people are reading your words than commenting on them. Yes and i am sure they all agree with you Balin nowhere did I say they did. I know a few ...

Maeryk

If you haven't somehow magically left our reality, you are still in the real world dumbass. Even if you are playing SCA for the weekend. It may be a game, but so is golf. Ok and... [/quote] Wow ok dumbass do you pretend to be someone else when you golf sign in under a different name in calligraphy?...

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