ANST - To hit or not to hit Combat Archers
Keith Hood
keith_dell at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 25 20:31:38 PST 1998
>
> While I am on my soap box......why not have the same discussion about
siege
>engineers?...why should they be non combatants since most of them can't
>fight back?
>
A little terminology correction here...siege engineers and combat
archers are NOT con-combatants. They are definitely playing an active
combat role. They may be non-CONTACT if they choose to so mark their
helmets.
I know it sounds like trivia but it's one of my mental things. Archers
and artillerists are fighters. They just use non-standard weapons.
>
>At Gothic War this year I saw one of our greatest Knights killed in the
>bridge battle by a ballista bolt to the groin.
>
Thankfully, he explained later, it actually hit on the inside of his
thigh. It just was so close to home it *looked* like a groin shot. It
caused more dramatic effect than damage.
And I swear by everything that has ever been held holy by anyone, that
shot placement was just accident. Any good gunner always aims for the
center of mass; that bolt was just a tiny bit heavier than the average.
Tomonaga
--
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 from "The Song of the Bosonian Archers" --
By Robert E. Howard, who should be
the patron saint of Ansteorra
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