The Armour Archive

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Do you stain it? Seal it? Paint it? What?

jester

Wash the canvas multiple times in hot water. What you are trying to do is shrink it by tightening up the weave. The drop cloths from Lowes/Home Depot are loose weaves and that's what makes them less than water proof. If you can shrink the fabric by about 30% you ought to get a decently tight weave. ...

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Oops, I think I got the lance and the posta switched in terms of size.

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constable -> comes stabiles -> count of the stables. Troops were organized logistically and you were part of the group you stabled your horses with. Compare with the Italian posta (an assigned place in a stable). Consider that military titles were descriptors of function rather than ranks. So in lat...

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Want.

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In the Italian tradition a caporale (corporal) was the leader of a group of men. The size of the group is, in medieval fashion, indeterminate. In the English tradition this person would have been termed a captain.

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http://www.clubworkshop.com/

The pictures on the site are all from when it first opened a few years back. Now.... More equipment, more lived in.

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Had to put the finishing touches on my substitute Lego motors and they had to sit for twenty minutes to let the epoxy set. So I pulled out the bone and started making naalbinding needles until someone needed to jump in on the bandsaw and got his piece stuck in the machine. So I put the bone away and...

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Modern military organizational groupings are tactical. Medieval military organizational groups are logistical and/or political.

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per el legniame, pali, stanghe, bachete et per la murada; For timber, posts, poles, rods and for the bulkwark; On the one hand this line seems to lend credence to the idea of rigid internal structures. On the other hand, the lack of any construction details for rigid structures in the book is prett...

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As long as the majority of the SCA wants it to be a game of simulated honorable medieval tournament fighting, rather than a game of simulated medieval combat, BotN isn't going to have much effect on the SCA, methinks. As a quick note re: grappling, however: as long as the only way to "kill" your op...

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This was supposed to be a serious thread and now you all have derailed it. :x Now back to reality- I believe it was Sir Sealy of Serta who penned the first manual on pillow fighting, entitled "Taste Feather Bit**!" He describes the use of small dueling pillows and the employment of the King Size "G...

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Can we talk about 157v? It looks like 8 panels sewn together to form a wall? There appear to be eyelets on the right hand side, toggles on the left. That suggests a modular construction system allowing the panels to be put together. At the top and bottom we appear to have frogging or loops that seem...

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Galleron is correct. There's an additional picture from an Arab source in that time frame showing the poles (with the same metal sleeves) collapsed for transport on a camel and you can clearly see the wedge cut on the poles. I've got a copy of it and I'm looking for an online source. Edit to add: Ga...

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Sean Powell wrote:I like the multi-piece 'pavilion masts' with the steel bands. It would be a very material conservative way to achieve a take-down upright and fairly simple to build also. I may build one to experiment with.

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Multi-part tent poles are documented at least as far back as the 13th Century in Spain.

jester

My best hope is that the idea of singles combat with steel weapons be added as another class of combat, i.e if you want to do it, great, if not great, or that deeds of arms where armour as worn be more prevalent. That would be cool. We call it Cut & Thrust. ;) are you saying that cut and thrust is ...

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-Make yourself an ad-hoc oven out of scrap lumber and heat it with a heat-gun, propane torch, or even a powerful hair-dryer. Anything that will trap the heat will help you to heat evenly and more quickly. -Plastic is like metal in *some* ways. You can force plastic to retain a new shape by cooling i...

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That is all very good if you have leisure...not so much if the grounded guy's buddies can keep you busy until he gets back up. I think that in a melee environment the time it takes to finish off a fallen fighter is critical, and accounting for it would eliminate the cheesy drive-by body slams we se...

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The rules require participants to be armed. Taking people to the ground is the quickest and surest way to win in the melees under the victory/end-game conditions defined in the tournament rules. And keep in mind that however brutal it may appear/be, it's still a game. You can see teams gaming the r...

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The rules require participants to be armed. Taking people to the ground is the quickest and surest way to win in the melees under the victory/end-game conditions defined in the tournament rules. And keep in mind that however brutal it may appear/be, it's still a game. You can see teams gaming the ru...

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I agree with Kilkenny. Static stretching is bad and I *hate* physical conditioning at martial arts classes. Warming up is good but, again, I dislike instructor led warmups. I'm an adult. I'll warm myself up and be ready to go in time for the instruction and drills.

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The problem is this ... the 25 year olds you want to send ... cant afford the armor and tickets etc it will take to practice and try out. Then go to poland. At age 25 you are scapping like heck just to earn a living and go to events regularly. Solution = Club Sports structure. You have your club an...

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-Teach them how to put on the armor. I have found this to be the biggest barrier to entry; people are actually intimidated by putting on the armor because they don't understand it yet. -Teach them how to throw a shot on the pell. Concentrate on using hip motion. Explain and demonstrate power generat...

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The SCA will not change to become the HMB and shouldn't. It may adopt aspects of HMB combat rules but it probarly won't. If it does it won't be for a couple of years until after SCA participants have had some more exposure to HMB.

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It's not really a silly suggestion. How hard to I need to hit you? Give me a shot. Bang. A little bit harder. Bang. That's good. Okay, let's fight. Force levels will tend to standardize in kingdoms and interkingdom events and porous borders will tend to keep force levels fairly standard between king...

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I don't particularly enjoy getting involved in rule discussions because it annoys me when they are ignored and because the marshals generally have different interpretations than I do. The current standards for blow acknowledgment are found in the Marshal's Handbook in section V. Acknowledgment of Bl...

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I am also against the grappling during melees, unless they are in "event" melees like Battle of Thirty or the like. We dont want that kind of game in the SCA as a whole, we are not prepaired for it, and vast majority of the fighters out here would leave or move on to other things if it got to becom...

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Sigifrith Hauknefr wrote: Ah, Ah, I see. I was unclear. I meant "Fighting until a SINGLE BLOW TO THE HEAD OR BODY is delivered to the satisfaction of both parties". No matter how many blows of questionable status land - there is always a final one.

I misunderstood.

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I don't think we do it wrong and I don't think you do it wrong. Fight until both parties are satisfied, or at least are done. The rest is just a matter for local Chivalry counsels (or possibly Marshallate if someone is being unsafe) I have been a proponent of allowing this type of fighting which (a...

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I'm actually in favour of the Steel Plate is armour impervious as worn. Reason being? Encourage folks into proper armour! What's your SCA victory condition for a standard armoured combat bout? Right now we take a good blow to the noggin or body as a fight ender. If steel plate is impervious then th...

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Nissan Maxima wrote:Glad the masters worked out for you. Looks good.

Rapid prototyping machine?

jester

When will we just accept the armor standard is a fantasy, and that it is actually clothing and a padded coif. Sigh. Personally I think we should just get rid of the idea altogether because what people actually wear isn't standard across the board anyway, and replace it with language that reflects l...

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The SCA had unarmored wrestling. The marshalate killed that. It still happens (I saw some last Pennsic) but the key is to not let the marshals know. Not an option for me, I follow the rules. Death from behind is a long-standing western tradition. It's allowed by the Society. Maybe. The new, if it is...

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How do you say "Sorry, we can't hear your complaints over the sound of the fun we're having" in Polish?

Better and more timely results would be nice.

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PS: I've fought in an A&S bout where we agreed we'd permit throws (or rather, I said, 'You can throw me if you like. I can't do it safely, so I won't, but I _can_ fall safely'.). He threw me. It enlightened me on those areas of rapier where our artificial rules alter how we play our game. YMMV No y...

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