The Armour Archive

jester

Wow. Send that to TI, please.

jester

And, of course, there's my personal favorite for those times when gakking one guy from behind simply won't cause enough chaos.... start yelling orders. Sometimes it works, and when it doesn't your opponents will kindly turn around to engage you.

jester

My experience with DFB is that the better fighters on the west coast simply don't use it even when they are able to. It promotes dishonorable combat, so many of the West Coast Knights won't even consider using it. It's a bad rule, and like Vitus, I am against it. Death on the Ground, however, shoul...

jester

I like it. It allows for scenarios that more closely approach 'war'. I think it should be an optional rule, one that must be announced prior to the beginning of combat.

jester

Just what the topic says. We have the rules of the list published in Corpora and republished in the Marshals Handbook along with the specific rules governing rattan and rapier combat. Do the rules lay out what is permitted (and by extension anything that is not covered in the rules is forbidden) or ...

jester

I think slow work is fantastic for: a) Teaching basic movements: how to thrust and strike, how to move your feet, how to position your body to close and open lines of attack. b) Teaching basic concepts: timing, distance, etc... c) Exploring and/or demonstrating documented aspects of medieval combat ...

jester

Well, anytime you have to join a program (yahoo groups) in order to get more information you will always lose some folks. I think it's a great idea, and something we are looking into doing out here in Denver, but since I live in Denver I won't be making it back East to participate in your tournament...

jester

If you are the author of a piece on rattan combat in the SCA and would like to see your piece published or re-published on the Internet please contact me. There are at least two sites on the internet that deal with this type of material. Both myself and the Legio Draconis publish new pieces and re-p...

jester

woodenbullfrog wrote:right bad news none of those sites seem to have the complete text...

Well, I've got all six of the installments that were (to the best of my knowledge) published. If someone can confirm that more installments were published I will contact the author and try to obtain them.

jester

Yep. You're correct on all counts, Asbjorn. Perhaps it would be a good idea for the Marshallate to address the basic issue of proscriptive or permissive rules? There seem to be some different opinions floating around. That's an excellent point regarding the legality of these techniques. I guess my e...

jester

Nevertheless, if the kings and the marshallate as a whole and enough heavies to get up an argument are in favor of allowing CA, it is inaccurate to say "we" don't want it. Some of us don't--the guys with the power do. And when did _I_ ever say "we dont want combat archery"? You ahve been arguing wi...

jester

While this seems like an interesting idea, it does create the imbalance mentioned earlier; that people who can afford to shell out for a full suit will have an advantage over those that cannot. That hardly seems very fair, to me. It would also create an imbalance between personas. After all, its fi...

jester

Granted.. and good point. But part of the problem I see is that A) people insist on distinctions in weapons that dont really exist. (a six foot hunk of rattan is a six foot hunk of rattan.. whether its a greatsword or a polearm. I can choke up on my pole legally.. hell.. I can grab all the way up t...

jester

What, you dont think it is now? Trust me.. fighting with a spear.. if you can button shot the guy two or three times, working your way down the front of his chest, and he doesnt take those.. he WILL take the last one. Big difference between a "legal" target area and a "preferred" target area. In th...

jester

You would need permission because in some places, people are EXTREMELY RESISTANT to any form of combat that threatens the SCA "standard". Like, but not limited to: grappling halfswording armour as worn counted blows. Most of those things you see going on are exhibition.. and not "approved" fighting...

jester

Why would you need to get special permission to use counted blows? If these were written down quite a while ago I could understand but counted blows are, if not fairly common, at least not really very rare. Rob It was a consistency issue. Instead of saying 'this rule can be used without getting per...

jester

But we can. This is not forbidden by the Society level rules. A few of us have proposed to the SEM that the new rulebook (no I don't know anything about this I have only heard unconfirmed rumors that a new update is on the way at some undetermined future date) contain a little more information on t...

jester

Broadway wrote:
An area covered by
plate would be invulnerable to thrusts or strikes.

Define "strike"

Any blow with the striking edge of a weapon. Anything that's not a thrusting attack.

jester

The text below is quoted from a message I sent on the SCA Period Combat list. I have found it to be the opinion of the Marshallate (Society level deputy marshals) that such activity is already permitted or, at least, is not forbidden by the Society level rules. I wrote this proposal as a way of maki...

jester

Great idea.. cept the issue here is we dont play "armor as worn". Even what we are ASSUMED to be wearing, is, if I am not mistaken, proof against the arrows of the same period as the armor. Maeryk But we can. This is not forbidden by the Society level rules. A few of us have proposed to the SEM tha...

jester

Sorry, no solution from me. I just accept that I won't be fighting much over the next ten years and try to continue the mission. Without being able to do much actual fighting I started to concentrate on theory. I can squeeze in some reading and thinking on combat/fighting theory (historical and SCA)...

jester

Well..... I live in Denver, Ron Broberg lives in Colorado Springs, Arland the Bastard lives in Castle Rock, Otto von Aachen lives somwhere North of Denver, and Sir Mavrikii lives in Ft. Collins. Those are all the Armourarchive Outlanders that I know of and I don't know that any of us make it up to B...

jester

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/jester

In the No_Shield directory (or something like that).

jester

Does anyone know any online interpretations of I33, a few friends and myself are starting to work on it and i was curious so see if other poeple are getting similar interpretations to us. also, something i noticed, On page 8 of my copy(i'm using a PDF version, may or may not be the same as one you ...

jester

This website will educate people about what times of war were like in the middle ages. A BREIF HISTORY In Medieval Europe warfare was a way of life. Nobility held their power by the virtue of their status as professional soldiers. The common soldiers, while still considered professionals, were led ...

jester

Encourage her to read. There is an amazing amount of material available for free on the internet. And you don't have to purchase a great deal of equipment to start out. I started out with lengths of PVC for weapon simulators (you can equip yourself for less than $10 for the purposes of casual explor...

jester

Ok, I'm trolling for information. Here's what I currently think I know about setting a late 14th Century table. General: -The basic rule is conspicious consumption. Wealth and power are demonstrated by ostentation and luxury. -The tables are likely not permanent. Much more likely is a trestle table ...

jester

Ivar here, Again I know you are not looking for pewter, however, if the beaker you are looking for is the one I think it is, then you might want to look at #40994 at the following German pewter site: m This is a 3 liter wine can and comes either polished or antiqued. I have some German pewter from ...

jester

I second (third? fourth?) the idea of focused research. One thing I have been working on (for a notional group that only exists on paper) is a list of questions about information that people would/should know. E.G. How do you start a fire? Who's the Pope? Where does he live? How do you say the Pater...

jester

I tried framing a couple of replies and discovered that I have worked myself up again. It's obvious that I will be unable to convince everyone. But I've got to put this discussion aside for now. Those who are interested can look at the record I am keeping of my 18+ month efforts in a similar area. m...

jester

The allusion to extra work for the Marshallate is, in my opinion, a red herring. The easy way to deal with this is delegation. The Society is well aware of this. All fighting is optional. You can have an active group without a Marshal, you just can't have any fighting in that group. Steel fighting ...

jester

I understand that you don't want basketball to stop. What we hear you saying is that you want to come into the gym and play soccer under the goal while we are playing basketball. Oh, and by the way, now that we are playing soccer in your gym, we need you to send over some people to give up whatever...

jester

Dmitriy wrote:

Outlands -- Sir Kragon (one of the few men from that Kingdom I have had the pleasure to meet, he and his lady made a lasting impression. His squire as well).

As of a month ago his squire is now a knight as well: Sir Michael of Endrock.

jester

Should we allow full contact Karate? I'm sure there are certain amount of folks that would like it in the SCA. Different methods of wrestling? Heavy fighting or rapier form horseback? where do you draw the line? (that may be the crux of the issue... that line is different for each of us for differe...

jester

>>>#1 It's unsafe - Bushwah. We have over ten years of data, from organizations other than the SCA, that refutes this claim. We have two years worth of data from the SCA (sidesword program) that refutes this claim. And insurance is, apparently, not a problem. Are you saying that the "worst case sce...

[SCA] Are the rules proscriptive or prescriptive?

[SCA] An invitation to publish

Re: [SCA] Alternate Armour & End-Bout Scenarios

[SCA] Alternate Armour & End-Bout Scenarios

Re: question on I33

Setting the late 14th Century table