NSTIW really:)

[Burke McCrory]

At 08:52 PM 3/23/97 -0600, you wrote:
>     I would first like to say that I am sorry for the late posting about 
>     Gulf Wars, but I was booted off of the list while I was away and it 
>     took awhile for me to resubscribe.
>        
>     
>        I cannot put into words how much fun I had at Gulf Wars.  My brown 
>     ale did well in the Art's and Sciences and best of all I got to fight. 
>     I am a member of the Liondragon guard from Mooneschadowe, in 
>     Ansteorra.  I was asked to share one of my NSTIW stories with the list 
>     so here it goes.
>        When the Liondragon guard was told to hold the gate along with 
>     Black company,we did just that.  Now before I continue a brief 
>     description is needed. I am 6'2 I weigh 365 lbs, and I bench almost 
>     300 lbs, my current squat hasn't been measured  because I can't find a 
>     weight belt big enough. So as the army of I think Meridies charged 
>     again and we held before the dead could be removed a man in blue and 
>     white armor tried to crawl over one of my shield sisters shield, I 
>     took a dim view of this and hooked him with my ax onto my shield and 
>     held him their for a very long time screaming that he was mine and 
>     that he was going no further. His spearmen tried to dislodge him or 
>     kill me I was not certain but he grunted like they were hitting him so 
>     I finally let him drop. joining back up with my shield wall as I had 
>     moved forward to drop my captive.

Ld Owen doesn't give himself enough credit.  I understand that as he tossed
this poor unfortunate fighter back into the Trimaran lines the look of
shock and dismay on the enemy's face was priceless.  This group of young
fighters (the liondragon guard and the black company) consisted mostly of
people who had been in armor for less that a year.  Only two or three could
be called seasoned fighters.  They held the line against the main bulk of
the Trimarn army's charge of the gate not once but twice without breaking.
HL Gunhilda could be hear shouting that Ansteorran's didn't break or fall
back.  She demanded that they die in place and not give ground (kind of
reminds me of a fight them on the beaches, fight them in the streets speech
from W. Churchill).  Unfortunately she took a rock in the head a few
minutes later.  

>  <snip>   
>                        Ld Owen ap Aeddan ap Trahaern
>                        A Founder of Wyrmschlauger
>                        Member of the Liondragon Guard
>                        Eldest son of house Windbourne



Sir Burke Kyriell MacDonald


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