The Armour Archive

Saritor

hrolf wrote:while in armor, fighters don't have a gender.

Most definitely this.

Saritor

Well i think the Rapier folks should cut themselves free of all of their coat tail riders and make a push for a Rapier only peerage. They do themselves a great disservice by trying to include all of these other areas. If only this could be attributed solely to those in the rapier community pushing ...

Saritor

I've seen folks that use high-density foam or layered/thick rubber sheets to produce crosshilts with. I think the rubber holds up better, but I've just shelled out for Windrose/Mandrake stuff personally.

Saritor

A friend of mine up north in the Outlands has been making tents for a while now, mostly because he made his own and the rest of us kept asking how much he'd charge to make one for the rest of us. He's gone ahead and started his own tent-making business. The tents are great, go up pretty easily and, ...

Saritor

I only see a couple. Hound Coursing would probably fall into Laurel. As would falconry and probably equestrian, as you aren't competing against someone "else" as much as researching a period art. If we're going to open that can of Wyrms, M, I would argue that while fencing is something th...

Saritor

Look at Samuel's design - we tested it a couple of Estrellas ago and for the non-pussified it's quite good. Oh, I've seen it. It's just getting more people to USE it that's a problem, as you addressed at the end of your sentence. I don't feel like waiting for C&T melee. Besides, I want to be ab...

Saritor

Rapier is from the renaissance and it is only becoming a military tool at the end of the SCA era; it was more civilian most of the era, which is why I am yet to be convinced. However rapier makes a bit more since than anything else. Rapier, as most people think of it, never evolves in to a military...

Saritor

I believe the levies were SUPPOSED to be equipped with 'a stout thrusting sword'. Now, is that a rapier, or an estoc equivalent, or something even cheaper. (And how many did the Lord Lieutenant of the County actually issue, and how much did he pocket, given the corruption in the Elizabethan militar...

Saritor

And they also should be in roles appropriate to the nobility of medieval western Europe. Which cuts out some (not all) of the examples quoted of unarmoured combattants pre 1600, even those limited ones who fought in battles unarmoured, as many were essentially foot soldiers or light cavalry, who we...

Saritor

Maeryk wrote:
Uadahlrich wrote:
Maeryk wrote:The idea here is skill, not power.

Also, in many Kingdoms there is a requirement of scholarship in a period form.

Nuts.. there goes that money-shot ass wrap I've been working on...

Nah. That's called a falso dritto in Italian swordplay.

Saritor

If this advances (has advanced?) to where the blades are coming in fast and furious, and people can fight with similar intensity to what you see in rattan, we could end up with a mass exodus out of rattan and into cut and thrust... You can approximate the speed, but not the shot power. Look at what...

Saritor

Notice the cut and thrust guys are wearing armour, helmets, etc. Stuff you'd wear into battle and/or a tournament, pre-1600. Oh, and that armor isn't required -- they just chose it because it was more fitting to the style of their combat. Check out the second video with sword and buckler fought by ...

Saritor

Seriously, the point was being made that the fencers are indeed engaging in battles, war points and the like. My point is that if it part of a war, then they would NOT be fencing, they'd be wearing armour and battling, not dueling in civies. See my post above. This is simply not true, even with a c...

Saritor

My epee has a foil guard and a French grip on it, reflecting my opinion on those weapons in the SCA. Wait, haven't I said this already in this very thread? But yes, that is part of things. Rapier's come a long way and is starting to push some really interesting boundaries with what can and can't be ...

Saritor

Oddly, the foot also appear to be carrying rapiers... Not all of them, and there may not even be rapiers in some of the pictures. Most of the foot soldiers have the hilts obscured, but they're mostly carrying "generic" cross-hilted swords from what I recall looking over the images. Now, w...

Saritor

When the fencers are massing for field, ravine, woods, castle and bridge battles in earnest combat in support of the king and defense of the kingdom, why wouldn't they want to put their armour on? You don't go naked into battle. Given the late 16th century nature of fencers (I am so not getting in ...

Saritor

Alex Baird wrote:At Estrella as well.

Huh. I thought that was just the bonus "Outlands War Point".

Saritor

Jon Barber wrote:
Jess wrote: I think it is hilarious that apparently no other fencers on this forum would support a fencing peerage

Not posting about it here and not supporting it are 2 very different things.

I am also very much not a standard by which to judge any other fencers, despite my lack of support for it.

Saritor

I thought I'd seen a softcover version on bookfinder.com the other day, but I may not have been paying close enough attention, or I'm thinking of a different book I was looking up along with. I usually see copies within the US going for ~$50-55, with the occasional $40-45 copies in the UK. (And one ...

Saritor

No, its any "period" art. The "martial" arts we are talking about are "SCA"isms with funky rules and modernisms that most Laurels do not consider within their perview. Well, if we're talking about prowess with combat archery, or fencing tournaments, then I agree absolu...

Saritor

horsefriend wrote:P.S. I can scratch build you one in 16 ga.for about $250, contact me by e-mail if interested.

Email sent, even if I'm not Maeryk.

Saritor

Hard or softcover?

Brand new? Gently used? Run over by pickup truck and left for dead for a week in a drainage ditch?

Saritor

Maeryk wrote:I've run across a few people for whom the majority of History is what they learned in SCA and think Arch-Duke Ferdinand was a nasty guy who had been king of two Countries before he was bumped off.

I know, wtf?

He was only prince in two different kingdoms. That's only a viscounty.

Saritor

Dietrich von Stroheim wrote:Drop your sword from above your head down to your left shoulder and slash outwards right into their hopefully-exposed offside ribs, hip, armpit, etc.

And if you miss, your point is already lined up for a thrust to the chest.

Saritor

I'm man enough to admit that the idea making a thickened broth out of a plant that can kill you merely by repeated contact, scares the pee outta me. You should read some of the alchemical formulae that were meant for human consumption. Makes me wonder how people survived early "science".

Saritor

This makes me want to run to the political forums and stay thereâ€¦ â€¦to escape the LARP/Combat Archery/4th Peerage/Armour As Worn/Kneefighting/ SCA vs. (Fill in the Blank)/Female Armour/Fencing meltdowns in the other forums. Clearly, you haven't spent much "quality time" with Dougie ove...

Saritor

Maybe you'll get that assistant manager position at Burger King. How's that working out for you, Dougie? Still running the fry vat? you're at the point of reminding me of one of those unarmed security guards who talks about how they went through SFOD training but had to quit because of some injury ...

Saritor

I know in theory about Cloven Fruit Wait, this is a courtly grace up there? I have got to get to more Artemisian courts... We usually make sure to warn people early on that cloven fruit is an entirely optional social game that you don't have to play, but if they do, we want them to know the rules u...

Saritor

Actually i think it may at some point be beneficial to my form as they will force me to keep my feet under me where they belong. So how about the rest of you guys? What are your experiences like? Any tips or things i should pay attention to? As for those who may be on the fence like i was for a lon...

Saritor

Leo Medii wrote:Too bad you prefer to destroy rather than create.

It's always easier.

Maybe his real name is Walter Blunt?

Saritor

Why would you people get upset if Fencers got a peerage? Why does that affect you? Why does them getting a cookie make your cookie taste bad? I know you're typing on the internet and all, but CAN you actually read? Or do you have voice recognition software that lets you do all this data entry? I kn...

Saritor

Christ, the entire 10th page is you guys defending how manly you are by citing how bad you can hurt people with sticks! Turns out my theory about you people basing your masculinity on your LARP was correct. The Tuchux grapple and do full contact, why can't you people? 'Cause you're a bunch of babie...

Saritor

sean of the chipendales wrote:Sean of the Chipendales
LARPer of Calontir

You LARP a gauntlet museum curator, right?

Saritor

iomtalach wrote:Where are my pants?

Have you checked the ceiling fan?

Saritor

Bob H wrote:I liek nudles.

Damnable Italians.

New source for round pavilions

Re: Courtly Graces. . . hhmm? (and minor rant)

Re: Some comments on fighting in period footwear.