The Armour Archive

Mikhail_Voronov

Desmond Seward has an excellent book that is an overview of it. Very well written and readable.

http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Years-War ... 634&sr=8-1

Mikhail_Voronov

With all this criticism of the SCA knights not taking action sooner and not “controlling their own”. And as the knight who stood up 20 years ago in the belted circle that was considering Brian for Knighthood, and said, "If you consider me a knight, Brian, should be a Knight." I offer up my belt. Ju...

Mikhail_Voronov

Derian le Breton wrote:What's typically sold as "raw silk" today is actually silk noil, which is made from short, nubbly left over fibers and is considerably <i>weaker</i> than the real deal.

-Derian.

Does anyone know what kind of silk is sold today that best duplicates period silk?

Mikhail_Voronov

Tim Willock's "The Religion"

Great book on the Great Seige of Malta. Hospittalers vs Ottoman Empire. Good reading and as best I've been able to tell some solid history.

Mikhail_Voronov

Sunday is fight practice in Brooklyn.

I'm sorry, maybe its cause I've seen way to many movies set in New York, but that line had me rolling.

Mikhail_Voronov

Reminds me of Sam Kinison's method to end World Hunger.

"Put them on a bus and take them where the food is!"

Mikhail_Voronov

The wiki picture might be the best help. Its important to note that the American depiction of Santa Claus is at best a combination of "Father Christmas" and St. Nick. In Europe they have traditionally been two very distinct people. When I was a kid in Germany St. Nick's day (I seem to remember dec 5...

Mikhail_Voronov

Quit trying to ruin the SCA!

Mikhail_Voronov

Does anyone know if the human hand is ok for Muslims? They have some pretty strict interpretations of the whole no human images thing in their religion. Not sure what the moors of that period did though.

Mikhail_Voronov

I'm from Rising Stone immediately to the south of Glaedenfeld. about a 20 to 30 min drive depending on where you live in nashville. And generally a much better place to live than nashville. (but im biased.) At Rising Stone we have several heavy fighters of great skill. We are most generally consider...

Mikhail_Voronov

They grey friars are indeed Franciscans. They were formed by St Francis of Assisi around the early 1200's (possibly as early as 1209) with his first formal order being formalised in 1223. After his death there were variations on the theme, but generally you are looking at a grey habit being specific...

Mikhail_Voronov

Res battle. Control points that are checked every X minutes for control. Two (or more - could even go four?) sides enter from opposite sides of the maze. Minotaur (one fighter) lives in the middle; this fighter is clearly marked by some sort of costume, horns, etc. He is free to wander the maze. He...

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I'll be there for meridies

Mikhail_Voronov

in my opinion most of you completely miss the point of this. You apparently love a piece of human history to the point where you're willing to re enact it but only certain parts of it? Sure. I guess I like anti-biotics too, and I guess I was grateful for the cardiac surgeon instead of leeches or so...

Mikhail_Voronov

I might suggest that historical re-creation and victorian romantacism aside what we do on the field is at its core a sport. Therefore to me challenging another person to a duel by SCA rules to settle a point of honor is no differant than challenging someone to a basketball game to settle a point of ...

Mikhail_Voronov

Outstanding points all of these. (of the post immediately previous) I am not in the least surprised that Sir Ulrich was involved in the discussion. (Thats a good thing by the way, not sure if it came out right.) For myself one of my mantras is "Question Everything". That being said there's an approp...

Mikhail_Voronov

Has anyone everr tried using one of those machines that test the force of your hitting. The psi machines or whatever they are?

DO those things even work?

Mikhail_Voronov

<snip> Out of curiosity. What happens if Erick and Leyli get to the finals? I'll have to ask them tomorrow at fighter practice. Simple , the same thing that happens in any other tournament - they would both fight their best, one would win one would lose. One would become Prince the other Princess -...

Mikhail_Voronov

Looks like a great tournament.

Out of curiosity. What happens if Erick and Leyli get to the finals? I'll have to ask them tomorrow at fighter practice.

Mikhail_Voronov

I think I posted this before, but I don't know of a single competitive martial art or sport that doesn't regulate its equipment in some way. Spin it anyway you want, but there isn't much denying that big shields provide an advantage. I don't see any harm in defining a tournament standard and a mele...

Mikhail_Voronov

I'm guessing it would depend on your time period and or status. I was reading something the otehr day about Julius Ceaser's tent that had a mosaic floor.

Now if your persona is a viking then your tent might roughly look like you just broke down your ship and used the sail for a tent.

Mikhail_Voronov

Magnificent. Had never thought of working Moorcocks chaos symbol into knotwork like that but I feel stupid now that I hadn't its a bloody simple idea. I've got a friend working on a crow wheel variant for me, (using the celtic crow wheel base but replacing the crows with Raven, Bear, Wolf, and doing...

Mikhail_Voronov

This was my second year at Gulf Wars and my first year to be able to fight, and I loved every bit. I was fighting with Legio LXIX from Meridies. At the castle battle I was the guy with the Rainbow shield for any who were near black widows breach. Not my normal shield but Heimdall was protecting me t...

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Some (limited) research (used here to mean I poked around the net a bit) seems to confirm a general belief that the soldiers available to Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem proper were auxiliary legions. This seems to have led to a belief that some of the legions consisted of Jewish soldiers, hence the bel...

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Crimthann of Fid-Nemed wrote:I MUST learn that not every single tunic and hood I own HAS TO BE EMBROIDARED!

Lies! Lies!

lalalalalalaala I can't hear you! I can't hear you!

Mikhail_Voronov

On the Hessian Mercenary bit, it might be helpful (for you or others) to note that the term "Hessian" in reference to the British Soldiers in the Revolutionary war was apparantly a misnomer. Large number of the mercenaries were from Hess, but there were many from a wide variety of German states, oft...

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How to fix a Rhino

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Is that the average today...or in 1361? Cause they probably aren't the same. That was a modern site. So 600 years ago would definitly be different. But one can logically assume not drastically so. By which I mean it wasn't the Gobi desert back then and suddenly turned into a reindeer playground. Bu...

Mikhail_Voronov

A stellar example! You should follow it! :P You know, if you could work out some knees for that thing, you could make that outfit SCA legal. I say we start a pool. everybody chip in a couple of bucks. First guy to walk out on the field of a major war in a full Frankenfurter outfit wins the pot?

Mikhail_Voronov

I can't say that I know what the climate in Gotland is like. In my experience, any carcass, left in the sun, in mid-summer, bloats. I would think that this could also make armour retrieval somewhat problematic. http://en.allmetsat.com/climate/western-southern-scandinavia.php?code=02590 a site that ...

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You know, we could just send them some Buffalo.

Mikhail_Voronov

Thinking about it from a project manager point of view, which may or may not be valid. We've found something like 2,000 bodies across five mass graves. (wikipedia cite.) This was in July on an island in a saltwater sea. Not sure how the salt air would affect things, I'm pretty sure it would change t...

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So I'm painting my helm, I realise not great, but given the condition it was in when it was gifted to me its the better option. Don't get me wrong its a great helm (the adjective not the noun). Just was in a condition where painting is a better idea than the industrial grade sandblasting that would ...

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What kingdom is Mexico? and can we decalre war on them in support of Sir Vitas? It's not like the heat will be any worse than Pennsic, and at least you'll know why you got the runs :) -Takeda I have a friend from New Mexico and he once told me that someone out there had laid claim to it. Outlands m...

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A thought which occured to me would be a way to make this needlessly complicated. If you had enough people you could always add the battle of Stamford bridge. With the victor then marching on the Norman position at Hastings. Firstly its a bridge battle, so bonus points there. Secondly, and primairly...

Re: 100 years War research

SCA Heraldic question on painting a helm.

Re: My bad luck continues.