__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
When I watch that all I can think of is beavis sitting there going, "yeah, yeah, kick his ass." and "I'm going to go all medieval on your ass, beotch!"
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Today's mighty oak was once just some nut who held his ground!
Looks like Pennsic war to me, which is the BIGGEST in the known world.
We have a decent sized war a few times a year. Maybe a hundred guys on the field in my neck of the woods.
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
__________________ “I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.”
-- Zachary Taylor, 12th U.S. President, 1849-1850
I don't think we have any more injuries than any other sporting event. Pulled muscles, ACL is the worse I have seen. Concusions happen.
Bad things have happened, but they are few and far between.
Fin: Scripted? WTF? Why would that be any fun?
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
How do you decide what "team" you're on? Is it like road hockey, you just throw your swords in a pile and whatever side your sword is on when they get separated is the side you fight for?
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And major action will certainly make you feel a bit uncomfortable, which is absolutely fine. You've gotta get excited about feeling uncomfortable, you've gotta love feeling slightly uncomfortable, because you know that you're stepping outside the boundaries that you used to create.
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I've made some huge mistakes, but they were necessary, because without them I wouldn't have learned anything.
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How do you decide what "team" you're on? Is it like road hockey, you just throw your swords in a pile and whatever side your sword is on when they get separated is the side you fight for?
That is actually a pretty complicated question. The answer varies largely depending on the event.
The biggest war I attend with any regularity is called Quad War. It was between three of the largest branches, Baronies, and the Princes Army which is everyone else. It was a 4 sided battle.
Others are between two baronies, or perhaps two principalities, ie regions. Or between two Kingdoms, even larger regions, that may contain several principalities.
For later pick-up battles you might try and break things up and mix teams up a little. I've seen the weapons pile thing.
Now what complicates all this is fealty. Ties to someone else. Knights have fealty to a King, Squires have fealty to a Knight. So for example if my Barony engages my knights Barony, by what I described above I would fight with my branch. However I don't I fight with my knight. My allegiance lies with him and not with my branch.
I also personally swear fealty to the Prince and Princess of the Principality I am in. So at Quad war, where do I fight now? With my group? My Knights? or the Princes army? 3 of the 4 sides are represented. I can pretty quickly scratch off my group. Now I have fealty to two of the groups. Where do I go? Usually I would go with my knight, he is where my first fealty lays.
So deciding teams is easy later, but for battles that count for points, not so much sometimes.
Og.
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
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