ANST - Re: BG - Tourney d'Amore

[harry billings]

What I think would be fun is to have a table in the middle of the field
(anchored so it could not be moved) and may be a couplke of pillers to fight
around. You could get onto the table but not through a shot through one of
the pillers, just around. 

>They are all constructs. I will say, however, that I prefer to look to
>the methods used in our studied time periods to use as the basis for
>recreation. And in that sense a barrier combat is probably far more
>acceptable than a "boarding action". (What can I say, my persona is a
>land-lubbing noble who doesn't have a clue what an "Elizabethan" court
>is, since it's a few decades past his time.) I guess what it comes
>down to is that any group of combatants, be they armored or unarmored,
>will decide to try and play at what they think will be most enjoyable
>for them and help them in their attempts at recreation. 
>
>So I guess I've just made a non-argument. :-) I'd just have to guess
>that they didn't want to fight the barriers because they thought it
>wouldn't be fun. (Pure conjecture on my part, here, as I was not
>there.) 
>
>Honos Servio,
>Lionardo Acquistapace, Bjornsborg
>(mka Lenny Zimmermann, San Antonio)
>zarlor at acm.org
>
>"A soldier uses arms merely with skill, whereas a knight uses them
>with virtuous intention. Mercenaries may be excellent soldiers; but
>an action which may be praised in a soldier may be blamed in a
>knight. For a soldier, the goal is victory: for the knight, since he
>is ready to go, if necessary, to certain destruction, the goal is
>honor."   - Pomponio Torelli, 1596.
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