ANST - combat archery logistics

[Bob Dewart]

Greetings good  Lord Stefan li Rous,

I'm very glad you brought up the subject of archery logistic.  Battle field
resupply is the purpose of those big yellow boxes of arrows.  Depending on
the number of battles to fight, I devide the arrows up so we are garranteed
of fresh and un damaged arrows in addition to those that make it through the
previous fight.  It basically equates out to a combat resupply rate, as
Uncle Sam's Army calls it.

The big yellow boxes serves as ATPs ammunition transfer point in the real
world or Arrow Transfer Point for our purposes.

Currently, well in GW 7, the archers (some any way) would go back to the box
and get more when they ran out.  In the last fort battle we were sending
arrows to the box straight from the factory as they got finished or
repaired.  Must have done about 100 that way.

The non combatant thing would be great if we could get folks to do it.  I
always thought that if they were going to be on the field with arrows in
their hand, might as well give them a bow and let them shoot too.  May be we
can do both.

Gilli
Instructor III Corps Battle Simulation Center Ft. Hood Tx.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
To: Ansteorra maillist <ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 7:04 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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