ANST - combat archery logistics

[Michael J. Harkness]

Well when I get hit in the arm, I do resupply arrows for the Archers that
are still shootting.  If the Archers or someone can resupply Archers more,
that would help out alot.

BTW, I have ran out of arrows and gone and got more from other Archers or to
the boxes that Gilli does provide.

Lord Talon of Blackoak
-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
To: Ansteorra maillist <ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 6:59 PM
Subject: ANST - combat archery logistics


>Galen of Bristol commented:
>> BTW, I've never seen a combat archer who could find five
>> good targets to shoot at every minute for 20 minutes.
>
>I would agree here. I think a bigger problem is if the archer is
>shooting 5 arrows every minute for 20 minutes that is 100 arrows.
>I think I remember Octavia saying she carried 50 arrows in her
>quiver but I think that is far above the average. Even then she
>would run out half way through if she was shooting at this rate.
>
>Perhaps I've missed it, but I haven't seen any mention of any
>effort to resupply archers in the middle of a battle. I believe
>that this resupply during battle was key element in many medieval
>armies, at least the English.
>
>Perhaps this could be done with a group of non-combatants in
>minimal armor wearing white diamonds? This might be a way to
>encourage non-combatants to participate as otherwise it can
>be rather boring and difficult to see anything from the
>sidelines.
>
>If something like the "scout" armor regulations of the Pennsic
>war were adopted perhaps even some folks who find even the current
>minimum armor regulations to be too much for only an occasional war
>could even be encouraged to join in.
>--
>Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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