Bordermarch Autumn Melees 2010

John Widcombe · Post by **John Widcombe** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:16 am

Just over two weeks away... Who's going?

I'll be there late Thursday night camping w/ Gleann Abhann.

-John

John Widcombe · Post by **John Widcombe** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:30 am

For more info:

http://www.bordermarch.org/Melees/

TallTom · Post by **TallTom** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:03 am

For honor, glory and shaky knees!

Sadly, my shire is hosting an event that same weekend, but happy meleeing to you!

Respectfully in service,
Thomas

Rey · Post by **Rey** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 11:31 am

Miriel and I will be there, Sir James the Holy will be riding with us as well as Master Damiano (Hacked up that name, he shouldn't be Italian) and I think we are also picking up His Excellency John the Bellringer on the way.

so 4 Heavy Fighters and a coughcoughcouhgfencercoughcough..

Rey

Greenshield · Post by **Greenshield** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:08 pm

Wish I could but I will be celebrating my 5th wedding anniversary that weekend. That way I hope to happily enjoy the next 5 years

Have a great event and fight well!

Greeenshield

Gunthar · Post by **Gunthar** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:04 pm

Greenshield,

That's a wonderful anniversary so enjoy. But you will be missed.

BAM rocks.

Greenshield · Post by **Greenshield** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:49 pm

Thank you your Grace. Looking forward to seeing you at Gulf Wars.

G

iaenmor · Post by **iaenmor** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:16 pm

Will be there Friday afternoon. Missed last year due to work. I didn't enjoy that.

lebreton · Post by **lebreton** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:39 pm

I will be there Thursday, such a fun event fighting my old peeps.

George

LR of E · Post by **LR of E** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:47 am

I'll be daytripping........no not from Atlanta. I'll be in Houston visiting.

Morgan

DeCalmont · Post by **DeCalmont** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:49 am

Should be getting there Friday...looking forward to a chicken fried steak at the lone-star restaurant.

holyone · Post by **holyone** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 11:25 am

One of the best events around.

Sir James the Holy

Swete · Post by **Swete** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:59 pm

I wanna go so bad, but, depending on how my follow up doctors visit goes concerning my knee, I may end up in surgery and not fighting for almost a year. :cry:

William Arwemakere · Post by **William Arwemakere** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:14 pm

Greetings!

I will be making the trip down yet again. Sadly, I will be the only An Tirian at the war (again). This just means I'm bringing more arrows...

Duke William, you will be missed this year.

HL William Arwemakere
Archery Champion, Bordermarch, Ansteorra

An Tir.

Gaston de Clermont · Post by **Gaston de Clermont** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:25 pm

I'll be getting there Friday. I'm very happy so many folks from out of kingdom are coming.

Blackoak · Post by **Blackoak** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:59 pm

I'll be there Thursday 5ish with my squire Ingvarr and his huge dong. :twisted:

Uric

Nikandros · Post by **Nikandros** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:28 pm

I will be there Friday afternoon with my family. This will be our first big event.

Gunthar · Post by **Gunthar** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 11:09 pm

It's too bad Duke William isn't GA King and attending.
He's Norman and King Ulstead is Saxon. Could make for some
fun conversations.

Blackoak · Post by **Blackoak** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:48 pm

Gunthar wrote:It's too bad Duke William isn't GA King and attending.
He's Norman and King Ulstead is Saxon. Could make for some
fun conversations.

I guess we will just have to mess with Ulstead about other stuff.

I have a list. :twisted:

Uric

iaenmor · Post by **iaenmor** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:56 pm

Easy enough, hide all the booze. That ought to get him riled up a a bit.

Gunthar · Post by **Gunthar** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:59 pm

Just let me know if you are going to hide the booze. That way I can stay home and hide under my couch. I don't want to BE there when Ulstead hears there's no booze.

Rey · Post by **Rey** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:09 pm

Blackoak wrote:I'll be there Thursday 5ish with my squire Ingvarr and his huge dong.

Uric

Actually it's so big the tip will be there at 3:30.

Rey

Swete · Post by **Swete** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:24 pm

Rey wrote:
Blackoak wrote:I'll be there Thursday 5ish with my squire Ingvarr and his huge dong.

Uric

Actually it's so big the tip will be there at 3:30.

Rey

Oh that is ....that's quite horrible. What must the Missus think?

Blackoak · Post by **Blackoak** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 7:23 pm

Swete wrote:
Rey wrote:
Blackoak wrote:I'll be there Thursday 5ish with my squire Ingvarr and his huge dong.

Uric

Actually it's so big the tip will be there at 3:30.

Rey

Oh that is ....that's quite horrible. What must the Missus think?

The Missus thinks of the sound dry wood makes when it splits. :twisted:

Uric

iaenmor · Post by **iaenmor** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 8:28 pm

Gunthar wrote:Just let me know if you are going to hide the booze. That way I can stay home and hide under my couch. I don't want to BE there when Ulstead hears there's no booze.

Your Grace, I am not stupid enough or crazy enough to try. They could hear the bellow of rage in Meridies I would bet.

John Widcombe · Post by **John Widcombe** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 2:57 pm

BAM 2010 Weather Forecast!

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weathe ... n=USTX0274

Looks good to me!
-John

Gaston de Clermont · Post by **Gaston de Clermont** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:12 pm

I hope the forecast holds. That would be the best weather we've had at BAM in a couple years.

Swete · Post by **Swete** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:07 pm

The Doc says that the ACL tendons in both my knees are completely severed. So I won't be able to go needless to say. So....I need one of you to hit a bunch of Ansteorrans really hard-like for me. :twisted:

(Don't hurt 'em too bad, but just enough to let 'em know that we of Gleann Abhann can hit for two!)

Good luck guys, and have fun.

Morgan · Post by **Morgan** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:43 am

I'll be there! No bells...but I'll be there!

Gunthar · Post by **Gunthar** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:33 am

It was a wonderful event. Perfect weather and great fighting. I don't think anyone cared what the score was, we just fought. I was saddened to see fewer Gleann Abhann folk than usual. I definately felt sorry for GA fighting up that ravine. The Champions bouts this year was a great new addition.

For those of you who weren't there some of the things you missed were:
Youth fighting.
Horse melees and jousting.
Rapier scenarios.
Cut and Thrust.
Ravine battles, bridge battles, open field battles, castle battles, Champions bouts, Zombie battles, pickup fights.
Two haflas.
A&S displays.
Wonderful fighting and partying weather.
Archery
12' spears. (With Radu fighting with one. Geez, he was taking out archers!)
Opening Ceremonies on horseback.

And that's just some of the stuff.
Make plans to be there next year if you know what's good for you.

spearweasel · Post by **spearweasel** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:02 am

Gunthar wrote:It was a wonderful event. Perfect weather and great fighting. I don't think anyone cared what the score was, we just fought. I was saddened to see fewer Gleann Abhann folk than usual. I definitely felt sorry for GA fighting up that ravine.

I didn't feel sorry for them. They fought hard and well, upslope or no.

Plus having the Ansteorran rez point eleventy five miles behind the lines even things up a little. I know I was wheezing. :lol:

John Widcombe · Post by **John Widcombe** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:14 am

Regarding the Gleann Abhann numbers,we were up 10 or 15 from last year.

We had about 50 heavy fighters in attendance on Saturday which is roughly 1/2 of our standing army at Gulf Wars. (Usual GW numers are in the 100-110 range)

We had a few that missed the event at the last minute, illness or other mundane issues popped up.

The ravine fight was fine, the hill battle that followed it was another matter.

Even with our no hike / mobile respawn we couldn't seem to kill enough of you guys at one time to make it up the hill.

Thanks to the St.Marks crew that came over to fight with us.

Also thanks again to Sir Ysfael (I'm sure I mispelled that) for the scenarios, it was nice to have a different take on the usual battles.

See yall at Gulf Wars!
THL John Widcombe, General of the Gleann Abhann Army

spearweasel · Post by **spearweasel** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:15 pm

Any photo links yet?

Moose · Post by **Moose** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:32 pm

Gunthar wrote:Archery
12' spears. (With Radu fighting with one. Geez, he was taking out archers!)

Well, only the ones in the second story arrow slots and on the walkway above the gates. I couldn't QUITE reach the third story ones. :twisted:

BAM was a lot of fun. It makes me hate even more that I had to miss the last couple. I will be back.

I wanted to thank all of the Gleann Abhann fighters and populace that made the trip over. You all made a great showing and did your Kingdom proud.

Thank you to all of the Ansteorrans who made the trip worthwhile for all of us. Your hospitality and friendship was as impressive as the valor of your warriors.

Radu

Gunthar · Post by **Gunthar** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:15 pm

I'd heard that there were fewer numbers from GA this year than earlier. I do know there were no rapier folk as our swashers where quite upset they didn't have any new friends to poke.

I heartily agree the GA fighters fought well and honorably. But I still didn't envy them that fight up the hill.
But we got karma back by trying to fight in that castle gate.

Tell Sir Ashi that I want a rematch!