The Armour Archive

carlyle wrote:Somewhere in the darkest, foulest recesses I harbored the evil image of some rules-lawyering fighter subverting the good Earl Marshal's intent by laying down and "log-rolling" his way to a new location.

You'll have to excuse me -- the nice man in the white coat says it's time to adjust the straps on my jacket, so I have to go now...

AoC

Now that is funny!!!!!

Vebrand

Moose wrote:

Rhyance Llew ap Llewellyn wrote:Hear, hear! When I first started reading this thread I was taken by two thoughts. The first was, "I'll bet that MD hasn't done a lot of time in an ER."

I'd recommend that the good doctor walk downstairs to ER and talk to some of the cops about how guys with leg wounds can't move.

Actually, our Earl Marshall is an ER Doctor. He has spent plenty of time in the emergency room forming his opinions.

While there are many instances of heroic efforts on the part of wounded combattants to accomplish astounding things, you have to remember that they are heroic and astounding because they are rare. That is why they are reported and glorified. It does not happen every time. Not by a long shot.

However, he set the rule back to the SCA standard for ease of use.

Radu

My experience is that in the first 5-10 minutes after such wounding, (far longer than an average SCA fight) the ability to continue to carry on is not rare at all. After this initial period, individual performance severely degrades due to pain and shock setting in and taking their toll, but that is often not the case immediately after the trauma. One of the learning points stressed in tactical training currently is to break the mindset that when you are struck by gunfire, there is no "rule" requiring you to fall down and become incapacitated. Instead, we are training people to take advantage of that "bubble" immediately following wounding, and use it to return fire, alert teamamtes to the shooter and to assist in their own extraction.