The Armour Archive

Leo Medii

I don't wear armor to seek compliment. I wear it because they did. They did it to survive. If I wanted to be a stick god, I'd dump it. But, I'm pretty OK with where I'm at in the full gear of the time periods I am enduring. So you are actually saying that your armor is keeping you from being a bett...

Leo Medii

Who gets all dressed up in armour to get shot by an arrow? Leo apparently. He also want's people to drop rocks on his head and then of course tell him how pretty his armor is. Not ashamed of it at all. I LIKE the dogs of war. I like being as close to the medieval battlefield as the timid SCA rules ...

Leo Medii

It is what it is. It has great fun and a large following. It has great advantages, including a world wide rules set.

There are things I don't like about it. But, they do not stop me from loving SCA combat.

Leo Medii

Thanks Al! I'm glad it was just a glitch in the ordering cart!

Leo Medii

"No. It's not my place to rob someone else of their fun like that." That's the job of the CA, actually. Their sole and ONLY goal is to deny fighters the opportunity to fight, while seeking as little risk and as much gratification as possible. I cannot find it in my heart to respect, or co...

Leo Medii

I never said CA was chivalrous. I said I liked it. Then again, a field of 2,000 Syndromes isn't all that impressive either. Unless you think CA belongs in any mass engagement or that every big combat is a battle and is never a deed of arms I'm probably not talking about you. If it's a grande melee,...

Leo Medii

I never said CA was chivalrous. I said I liked it.

Then again, a field of 2,000 Syndromes isn't all that impressive either.

Leo Medii

[quote="Balin50]Where are the pics of you mucking the stalls rather see those. I mean you splash your pics all over the place already sir and you are the one that speaks of Ego. [/quote] I'll get some. When working on the farm, things are both a bit busy and too dirty for carrying around an exp...

Leo Medii

I wish this was here.

That is all.

Leo Medii

I am KSCA and when it comes to discussing chivalry in the SCA I actually have a clue about it and people should remember that.

I like combat archery.

Leo Medii

I tried to order some finger shields and my order was reversed on my card?

Are they not taking new orders at this time?

Leo Medii

I can't wait to see how the other ones come out later!!!

Leo Medii

Diglach mac Cein wrote:Leo -

Some of my household who ride keep threatening to make an Irish style chariot for me...

Of course, someone else would be driving the thing...

I have a horse that pulls! Go for it!

Leo Medii

Don't you have some stalls to clean? Six actually. By grace of God I am fortunate to persue the art of chivalry as done by the knights of old as all knights should. Skill of arms, and skill of horse. Surely you know, surely you practice and maintain the same skills of our knightly ancestors? I am b...

Leo Medii

She and I went through a LONG process of design and choosing the final banner. SHE DESIGNED EACH ONE. I shot many of them down and she came up with one that just SANG. I have gotten dozens of comments on the flag, and I've used it twice. I actually want another just like it too, so we can put one on...

Leo Medii

What's better than the truth? Lies? Who decides what truth and lies are? The fighter who is the epitome of SCA Chivalric Virtue at events, Galahad incarnate, but cheats on his taxes, stabs his co-workers in the back, and neglects his family Monday - Friday.... Who places a greater value on his SCA-...

Leo Medii

Diglach mac Cein wrote:
Does not mean i and other like me will stop opposing it, or that we will stop hoping that people will put down these unchivalrous tools of murder and assassination and join the rest of us in heroic melee combat.

Like 4 on one combat, death from behind and dead on the ground?

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oh snap!

Leo Medii

Ya damn SCA no one dieing of plagues thought we were recreating history not made up fantasy land, and porta johns and flush toilets!?! Bushes and buckets were good enough for them and thats what we should use. Oh and women having any real say ya that would be better. Sorry if you want living histor...

Leo Medii

You mean recreating the medieval ages as they should have been? Yeah, I've read the quote in the several sources it was in. The Knowne World handbook was one of the first thing I got in 1986 when I was a LARP geek, and again when I joined the SCA in 1993 to have a historical outlet and get away fro...

Leo Medii

So, the next time I'm at an event, I'll get me some 2,000 prisoners and gut them all. As the person who did this was a knight, he must have acted in a "knightly fashion". The one great disservice the SCA does to actual historical "history" is it's adherence to the Victorianesque ...

Leo Medii

Once shot, most fighters brains go through a process like a computer. One, recognition of the hit if they feel it. Two, discerning where and how hard the hit was. Then, there seem to be two seperate paths the rest of the program goes. On one path, the brain goes to step three. Three, looking to see ...

Leo Medii

Nuff said.

Want moar.

Leo Medii

Pics of crossbows?

Leo Medii

It's not a crime to be pro-archery. At an event here we drove 2 hours to go to, before the last battle they said they were going to allow "experimental" arrows for our kingdom. The same ones we get shot with at Pennsic every year. There was a big hold where a CA argument broke out. There w...

Leo Medii

That kicks.

Leo Medii

Do you recall what sizes I got last time? I got one for my wife that was perfect, and would get another of them.

Leo Medii

2) could you post the pic of your 15th century kit that you had on Facebook (completely beautiful kit, even if the bascinet isn't the one you have planned for it). http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm34/Disenier/23990_1298660866699_1235712505_3087.jpg Since this photo was taken the left poldron ov...

Leo Medii

He is fine for all types of armor. He's been jousting in full harness for two years now.

I let lots of folks use him for pics. Our old Baron and Baroness got a bunch of great ones last year.

Leo Medii

The thing that brings honour to our combat is the fact that we trust our opponents on the lists.

If the "honour system" ever went away in the SCA there would be no honour in it.

Leo Medii

I love my job. Pay isn't all that great, but hey, how many people get to tell folks they meet they get paid to hit people with sticks. It's a great ice breaker in social gatherings. From our jousting show this weekend- Albion Equestrian College Horse Event- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/Le...

Leo Medii

I love my job. Pay isn't all that great, but hey, how many people get to tell folks they meet they get paid to hit people with sticks. It's a great ice breaker in social gatherings. From our jousting show this weekend- Albion Equestrian College Horse Event- http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/Leo...

Leo Medii

i couldn't give up time with my baby girl, so i gave up time on the field. This is the stuff that REAL hero's are made of...... I feel your pain. I have had to cut WAY back on SCA as well due to a move to a spectacular farm. Best place I've ever owned. Never thought I'd have a place like this. Went...

Leo Medii

Moderation. Find things to do as a family. That is the most important. Be it SCA or something, anything, it is more important to be together as a family than anything. Money is awesome. It is not so awesome if it causes you to be alone or unhappy. Talk to you wife and kids. Would they rather "h...

Leo Medii

My point is that if you have a verbal disagreement with somebody and you are truly not capable of dealing with it without resorting to schoolyard bullying tactics, then you have lost honour. The result of the following fight is irrelevant. May I ask to what context this applies? Are we speaking str...

Leo Medii

Yes, I misunderstood. My apologies. I have yet to feel the way that say Burr or Hamilton felt about a subject, where I would be willing to risk life and all over a personal matter. I must be a moron though, as I think that if I did, I would be more than willing to take up trial by combatish sort of ...

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