What are your least favorite battle types?

[Aaron]

Kingdom: Like a bad case of VD, I'm everywhere and have met everyone.

[Corby de la Flamme]

My least favorite battle characteristics:

mandatory kneewalking for some class of participant
make-believe tactical features (most typical example: "this 14" tall hay bale is really a corner of a wall you can't spear over." Put a damn post there!)
More rules than can be explained in 3 minutes to people who haven't done it before
having to build or disassemble things. I want to fight, not engineer.

[MalcolmdeMoffat]

I don't like any battles i can't fight surrounded by stone walls made by peasant hands at least 500 years ago.

LONG LIVE DRACHENWALD!!!!

[BdeB]

My least favorite battle characteristics:

mandatory kneewalking for some class of participant
make-believe tactical features (most typical example: "this 14" tall hay bale is really a corner of a wall you can't spear over." Put a damn post there!)
More rules than can be explained in 3 minutes to people who haven't done it before
having to build or disassemble things. I want to fight, not engineer.

You would have loved the mellees at coronation then!

[AngusGordon]

Any battle where there are more rules than participants.

Any battle scenario that is merely training for Pennsic battles.

Just let us fight for God's sake.

Middle Kingdom

[Cedric]

My least favorite battle characteristics:

mandatory kneewalking for some class of participant

This x1000.

Ok, we get it. Some of you guys are knights and should have horses. We understand, really.

That said, any battle that simulates this by requiring the rest of us to fight from our knees is a battle that does not need my involvement. If it is just a "river" or some other obstacle that I can avoid thats ok I guess, but if the entire scenarios is "Us standing against all You peasant scum who have to fight on your knees" then I can wait til the next battle.

[BdeB]

I love that the battle that had that in the rules this year at Pennsic was blattenly ignored/avoided by the fighters. Kneewalking to simulate horses one of the dumbest most disrespectful load of crap I've seen in the SCA and I refuse to be a part of it.

[Felix]

Battles that count numbers before hand or anything that makes you wait. People travel a long way and spend a crazy amount of money to stand around is just wrong. You get your guys I'll get my guys I don't care if you have more, lets fight for the next 2-3 hrs and who ever holds the "Sacred Cow" at the end gets to buy the beer for winning the day. And those of us drinking the beer who lost, well we get to cheer the winners and we tell "no shit" stories about the other guy. Less crying more fighting.

[Josh W]

I hate any scenario in which people get to use shields.

[Ian the Red]

Like:

Open Field Battles
Resurrection Battles
Timed Castle Battles
CTF Battles

Dislike:

Limited Front Last Man Standing Battles
Battles that take longer than 15 seconds to explain

[Baron Eirik]

Least favorite ever: "City of Rhodes" battle Pennsic some 7-8 years ago.

Do NOT write battle rule while playing D&D on crack.

[Robert of Canterbury]

Battles with more waiting than fighting.
Rugby scrums, as Sean Describes them.

[Karl Helweg]

Battles (and tournaments) where the rules and time limits keep changing to favor someone that the marshal thinks "should" win. Examples have been 20 minute battles that turn into 1 hour and 20 minute battles so the "right" side can win, allowing fighters to use a shield in a shieldless battle because they did not want to bring a pole arm, allowing a duke to fight in a "novice" tournament, finding your resurrection point closed early while you can clearly see the other side still rezzing.

I do not like silly scenarios designed to embarrass fighters like skipping to music then fighting then beginning the grand melee when the music stops.

I enjoy static battles around/over (good) obstacles probably because I am old and lazy. I also have no problem fighting in nice shaded woods rather than a scorching hot open field.

[Thorstenn]

Hate!!! Field battles and woods battles. I love res battles and bridge & castles battles.

Thor-
Trimaris.