Questions posed:
With standard rules your gonna get someone trying to sqeak by with hidden plastic or just a kidney belt and some hidden stuff.
Yall are gonna have to be willing to say, go play in another list to the sportys, or thier gonna try and wiggle thier way in. I've seen it in "plate and mail lists" over and over. Just not those run by Asbjorn.
Some personas wore very little armour, or had parts more armoured than others. We must weigh this with the armour standards of heavy list and find the compromise.
Several of the Yomen of (Barony of) Stonemarche (East) portray Personas that wore chain, a helm and not much else. They do an excellent job of carrying that off and still being armoured to the rules. At "a spear throw" (~ 30') it is how they look that matters.
Do they look like they stepped out of the pages of history? For the most part, Yes!
Can they document it? We'll see.
Its their job to "document" it - not ours.Who cares if they are wearing plastic or steel to make themselves list legal. What counts is that they don't look like they are wearing football shoulder pads under the chainmaile.
Am I supposed to be able to document my entire kit from period sources (seperate) or does it need to be a contiguous and logical whole? EG can I wear an italian harness circa 1376 and a german helmet circa @1370? Or a mix of the two.
My thought is - we cannot be living history, but we can try to be accurate while forgiving the requirements of safety.
Is the kit justifyable and documentable?
Would the German helmet be found with an Italian harness?
If you can answer yes to those questions and document / justify it -- then the kit is good. 2 Armour laurels and a Duke (and likely a chorus of kings/dukes/knights who happen to be on hand) will have the final say.
'Spears throw'
Approx 10 paces - approx 30 feet?
fairly standard SCA kit
There are some great / beautiful kits that are completely a-historical or complete "SCAdianisms". We give a nod to those who desire to look good. However, we're looking foir more than "look good" and less than living history.
We are looking for plausably accurate, and (under the rules) documentable.
Yes, we will cause some controversy and vexation. It cannont be avoided. Some will charge us with being too exclusive while others berate us for being too lax.
We are asking the people who want to ba apart of our dream to do a little work and find out what their persona should look like on the field -- and understand what is right and wrong with their kit.
"An educational society" right? - We're asking entrants to educate themselves, and then then educate us. Imagine 30 - 70 guys standing around in a myriad of different styles and period list-legal harnesses. Each one can give an accurate 2 minute class to an audience about his "documentable" kit. You don't kneed to know about all of them, just your own!
Document your kit and its ok (hide what you can if its wrong). The spirit of this event -
* Encourage and inspire excellence of kit on the field.
* appear as if he walked from the pages of a history book at a spear throws distance* ... must have no glaringly un-documentable aspects (beyond those required for safety)
is the measuring stick.welded mail
At 30', most maile is ok.
will look correct with the exception of metal poleyns for safety.
I assume this persona would have no rigid protection on the elbows and knees, and that poleyns are not glaringly out of place like a big gothic fan would be. Can you hide them? If not - you have to have knees and elbows protected - there's no way around it. Is that the only major issue with the kit?
stick to your standards
appear as if he walked from the pages of a history book at a spear throws distance* ... must have no glaringly un-documentable aspects (beyond those required for safety)
I wish you the greatest luck in this endeavor.
Thank you - from all of us, we expect you to be a part of it!
If I can pretend that a rattan stick is a sword, then I can also pretent that my bargrill doesnt exist....
