ANST - crossbow questions
Keith Hood
jemuga at freewwweb.com
Mon Feb 2 19:11:12 PST 1998
>From Tomonaga:
Crossbow quarrels must meet all the same construction standards as war
arrows. Heads must be a minimum of 1-and-1/4" in diameter, there must be
a minimum of 1" of padding on the tip, there must be a stop plate on the
end of the shaft that is strong enough to keep a broken shaft from
punching through the padding. If the stop plate is wood, it must be at
least 1/4" thick. There can be no metal anywhere.
Check with the chronicler in Bjornsborg; I e-mailed him some articles
with specs on how to make war arrows. You just make them shorter for
crossbows. Broken war arrows are very often resurrected for crossbows.
There are copies of the kingdom combat archery rules at
http://www.bga.com/~otto/handbook/bookolin.html. Be aware that these are
not ALL the rules; back issues of the Black Star will contain updates and
changes to these basic rules.
I got some info from e-mail off the net in Bry Gwlad: At GW there will
be three classes of archers. All must meet the minimum heavy weapons
armor standards. Those with white diamonds on their helmets cannot be
struck with any hand-help weapon; they must consider themselves dead if
any enemy gets within 10 feet. Those without diamonds but also without
secondary weapons may be struck, but only lightly; they should follow the
10-foot rule. Those without diamonds and with secondary weapons take
their chances on being clobbered just as if they were any other heavy
fighter.
Hope this does some good. Kill Trimarans! In the words of Sergeant
Major Oller: Kill! Kill! Hate! Hate! Murder, murder, mutilate!
--
A long bow and a strong bow,
And let the sky grow dark.
The nock to the cord, the shaft to the ear,
And a foreign king for a mark!
-- Stolen proudly from Robert Howard,
an Ansteorran before there was an Ansteorra --
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