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- Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:57 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Do you hate all missile troops? (SCA)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 30
Hi Saverio. I was trying to give you a response without restarting a longstanding SCA argument. In a nutshell, some of us do not believe the SCA should do 'War' as opposed to a very large melee. Other disagree with this and both sides of the argument have merit. When I started out in the SCA, our Ea...
- Sun Dec 28, 2003 8:35 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Do you hate all missile troops? (SCA)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 30
My take on the SCA is, if knights used it in tournaments we can use it in tournaments. If knights used it in wars, we can use it if we belong to the camp that believes SCA 'wars' are not just large melees. As far as I know, medieval knights did not use bows, boomerangs, slings or those Xena warrior ...
- Mon Dec 08, 2003 6:05 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Mottos/Phrases that Inspire you...
- Replies: 117
- Views: 899
- Tue Dec 02, 2003 6:19 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: fighting members in the SCA
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11
Remember Adam, Drachenwald is nothing but renegade province of the Great And All Conquering East Kingdom and it will be brought back into the nationalistic fold along with Atlantia, Trimeris, Aethealmarc, etc.... Wow. I sound like Bedlam now. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Richard Blackm...
- Tue Dec 02, 2003 6:14 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Favorite Style?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 17
Matched bastard sword in singles, Western European Medieval style with quillons. Preferably without thrusting allowed, but either way it is the best for me. It is not my most effective form, sword and shield is in and SCA context or two sword. It is by far my favorite and is quite knightly. It is a ...
- Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:12 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: new regulations reguarding spear.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 23
Quote: "How can they be both a)dumb, and b)effective?" Clearly you have never seen SCA combat archery, a madu in the tournament lists, a high school drop out drunk fat knight managing to bed a young buxom blonde with a college education or an SCA trebuchet throwing hundreds of tennis balls into a me...
- Wed Nov 12, 2003 7:55 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New England Armourers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 20
I spend a lot of time defending the concept that squires are to be treated as intelligent, dedicated retainers who have taken on obligations that put them in a position deserving our respect. Others think squires are utterly clueless and have no idea what is going on around them. This is kind of pri...
- Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:21 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Combat Archery III - The Saga Continues...
- Replies: 55
- Views: 23
A poll sounds good, but the reason I wanted it to go to SCA members, was so that no one could claim they did not know about the poll. Also, if someone isn't a member, I don't care how they vote. Plenty of non-SCA people vote on the online polls. Also I think that if someone is not an authorized figh...
- Fri Oct 17, 2003 6:38 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Combat Archery III - The Saga Continues...
- Replies: 55
- Views: 23
Hi Brendan. The reason I suggest we poll authorized heavy weapons fighters that are also SCA members, is partly to ensure that we get responses to the poll. It would be done as part of the membership renewal process over a one year period. Put the poll right on the membership renewal form. Fighters ...
- Thu Oct 16, 2003 5:54 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Archery vs. Chainmail test
- Replies: 68
- Views: 62
Quote: "Haha! My mithril chainmail will shrug off any arrow while I retain my look of surprise (Legolas style) at the fact that anyone would waste arrows, shooting at me! B TT " If you can afford Mithril, you clearly do not belong in the SCA... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Richard Blac...
- Thu Oct 16, 2003 5:48 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Combat Archery III - The Saga Continues...
- Replies: 55
- Views: 23
As far as a proposal to ban CA, is has been suggested. I suspect that if you polled all heavy weapons authorized fighters who are also SCA members worldwide, the bulk would vote to ban CA rather than keep it. If you gave them the choice of banning CA or keeping it but reforming it, I suspect the kee...
- Thu Oct 16, 2003 5:26 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Penecillin Resistant Staph Infection
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6
- Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:29 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Combat Archery III - The Saga Continues...
- Replies: 55
- Views: 23
Combat Archery III - The Saga Continues...
Tessa: Snip for brevity "...I don't get it. Either the problem was the remote possibility of thin shafts penetrating helms on a bounceback (or some other scenerio) or it's the fact that the shaft is not 1 1/4" in diameter for the entire length. Hearing this new argument makes it seem that some peopl...
- Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:14 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
Quote Steve: "IF THE ARCHERY COMBAT RULES CHANGE ONE MORE TIME AND OBSOLETE MY EQUIPMENT AGAIN I WILL BE DONE WITH SCA COMBAT ARCHERY FOREVER." While some people have actually said they think the rules are changed for CA regularly as part of an evil conspiracy to get rid of CA through economic manip...
- Tue Sep 30, 2003 2:33 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Why the "Six Foot Rule" Doesn't Hold Water
- Replies: 160
- Views: 224
Chef: "For the Medieval era? Hidden machine sewing as a for instance, although hand sewing is prefered. Hand sewing on visible seams is highly desireable. Modern wools and linens woven on commercial looms. Modern mild or high carbon steels for harness. The overal outward visual impression is what is...
- Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:46 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA-Need some advice on dealing with lefties
- Replies: 38
- Views: 29
- Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:42 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
Hi everybody. Thank you to all that offered input, advice or constructive criticism of my remarks. Brendan. I seem to continue to not be able to get my message across to you. At this point all I can say is that I apologize for any unintended offense taken. I view the SCA rules and guidelines as inte...
- Fri Sep 26, 2003 8:29 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
The sad thing is that you confuse polite reasoned discourse as foaming at the mouth, dead set in our ways pointless argument. Yes I have strongly held views and so do you. As far as pre-chivalric personas being allowed to participate? Of course they are. It may not make sense, but those are the rule...
- Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:59 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
- Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:49 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
Brendan. I never said pikes and pikeman where knightly weapons or knightly personas. I still am looking for differences between lances and spears knights used vs. those employed by non-knights in the medieval period, there may not be much or any difference in most or all cases. By the end of the med...
- Wed Sep 24, 2003 9:33 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
I should probably point out that I think CA is an awful lot of fun. I think that it requires little training to be successful, especially with a crossbow. I do agree that a skilled CA person is much more deadly than an unskilled CA person, especially in sniping non-mass volley attacks. I am not agai...
- Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:56 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: "total immersion" style fighter practices (SCA)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 30
Cuan: "...In fact, I delayed going to law school to concentrate on SCA. I was knighted at Pennsic in 1992, and the following year I skipped the mandatory law school orientation for first years so I could be at Pennsic in time to hold Atlantian Court..." Finally something funnier than the story that ...
- Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:50 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: The Dumbest Thing...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 28
I've done so many stupid things that it would be hard to come up with a number one dumb thing. Taking beach chairs, sunglasses and blankets to the Pennsic bridge battle and sunning ourselves by the water's edge probably qualifies though, "Beach Patrol Orientalis". We made the mistake of getting up a...
- Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:45 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Your feet...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 29
I usually wear either black leather boots (modern english equestrian or other simple boots) or black leather sneakers. I cover these up with either front only steel greaves (never find full case greaves I can do SCA fight from my knees in) with mail spats or mail shoe coverings. I do own sabatons th...
- Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:23 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
Hi Hamish. Ashley is now almost seven years old and is in 2nd grade. She started Karate this summer and earned her yellow belt Jr. last Tuesday (the little maniac is learning discipline and to count in Japanese. I can't tell if she is cursing or counting now. I'm still trying to keep up with her Spa...
- Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:54 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
Combat Archery is a fact of life Hamish? Only if we want it to be. In the East we did not have CA, face thrusts, siege weapons for quite some time. Why? Because we chose not to. It is certainly true that some things can be hard to change. Me personally? I think it is much more likely that CA will st...
- Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:27 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 146
- Views: 46
What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
Orig thread was locked for length 9/23. It seemed worthy of further discussion however.
- Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:48 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 139
- Views: 38
Miscellaneous comments: 1) Flails were banned primarily because the rope/chain could wrap around a body part like a wrist and do amazing damage. There was also some concern that these hit with excessive force in some cases, though I have been told that was not the primary reason they were canned. I ...
- Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:47 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 139
- Views: 38
Good points all gentlemen. One clarification however. I always thought that lances were knightly weapons and that while they were certainly best known for their use on horseback, the massed charge of knights with couched lances in particular as something knights and men at arms did very well to deva...
- Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:13 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Madu length
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12
Madu's are generally agreed not to have been designed or used for armoured tournament (or even war) combat in medieval Europe, they are not from the SCA period in most of their variations if not all, were not used in knightly and chivalrous combat ever and the versions that show up in the SCA are no...
- Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:23 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Madu length
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12
Well.... I was not sure if this was an SCA question, if it is then madu's are inappropriate and if I am ever lucky/stupid enough to win crown, they will among the first things I banish from existence. However if this is not an SCA question and somebody really wants to know, while they are a truly st...
- Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:17 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 139
- Views: 38
Steve SoFC. Hi. I suspect that we don't really disagree all that much on matters of fact. For the most part, our differences on what should or should not be allowed are based on our perspectives as to what sort of combat is taking place in what societal framework, which results in different applicat...
- Thu Sep 18, 2003 5:25 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Madu length
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12
- Thu Sep 18, 2003 5:21 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Training (with) significant others (SCA)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11
Train them yes, fight them? Usually not a good idea. You have to sleep eventually... If you do have to fight them, destroy them quickly, show no mercy or weakness, try to make it a painless but solid clean blow to the head after letting them throw a single blow at you. Tell them you love them and co...
- Thu Sep 18, 2003 5:06 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What would you like changed with Combat Archery and why? or
- Replies: 139
- Views: 38
"As for your attitude towards archers in regards to hurting or humiliating members of our society, this points to the fact that you don’t care much about that and obviously have missed out on some of the knightly virtues. " Actually, this sort of attitude toward archers was quite period. Knights o...