ANST - Slings

H.L. Agnarr Thorvaldsson agnarr at apex2000.net
Thu Jan 13 08:23:47 PST 2000


You are probably right about unless a face shot a sling would be at most a
"make ya mad" type of weapon.
Why sully your blade when a club will do?

Agnarr
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael F. Gunter <michael.gunter at fnc.fujitsu.com>
To: ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG <ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Thursday, January 13, 2000 09:45 AM
Subject: Re: ANST - Slings


>>         Yes, and slings are now allowed in this Kingdom in the new
fighting rules!
>> I would recommend anyone interested in trying it to do so.  It really
isn't
>> as hard as it looks.
>> Oh yes, I am a slinger by the way.
>>
>> Centurion Romanius
>
>What are the rules for accepting blows from a sling? Slings were used in
period
>even quite a bit after Hastings. (Saw a wonderful show on A&E about slings
>and spears and the development of them to modern battles.) But how are
>they to be used in SCA combat? Slingstones do a wonderful job of taking out
>lightly armored forces that were the mainstay of most medieval armies but
>I doubt they would be much of a threat against a fully armed and armored
knight.
>Unless hit in the face, all I feel a slingstone would do against me in a
full hauberk
>
>with gambeson and hardened leather reinforcements (what we are supposedly
>wearing) would be a bruise. And such a bruise would make me, as a period
knight,
>even more determined to ride into the middle of that rabble with sword
swinging.
>
>I certainly don't feel we should call slingstones as we call arrows or
trebuchet
>rocks.
>So what is the ruling so I don't make a mistake on the field?
>
>Yers,
>
>Gunthar
>
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