[Ansteorra] Combat Archers
Eadric Anstapa
eadric at scabrewer.com
Tue Jan 10 13:04:30 PST 2006
DAFPIG at aol.com wrote:
>Greetings everyone,
>
>I'm wondering were all Ansteorra's combat archers have gone to. I would
>appreciate a few moments of your time if you have been a combat archer in the past
>or plan on being in the future.
>
>1. If you use to be a combat archer,, why did you stop?
>2. What would entice you to resume combat archery?
>3. If you wish to do combat archer.. what would be the best why to
>help/encourage you?
>
>If you feel more comfortable answering in private,, please do so. Thank you
>for your time and efforts in helping me.
>
>Octavia
>_______________________________________________
>
>
Greetings Your Excellency,
As an FYI think the combat archers are starting to come back bit by bit
and our numbers are not as low as some people think. People are
recovering from the down economy a few years back and I hope we will
see more on the field soon.
I think the main reasons we have so few combat archers is that there are
so few opportunities for them to practice their craft and those
opportunities are so inconveniently scheduled.
Our kingdoms two main melee events, 3Kings and Bordermarch, have been
held for the past 3 or 4 years on back-to-back weekends. I believe that
does the kingdom a *GREAT* disservice. Many people will simply have to
choose one event or the other for whatever reason. Add to this that
Gothic War was held barely 30 days before that and basically all of our
large melee events that would support good CA are crammed into a single
6 to 8 week period. Not good at all. Most armored combatants can go to
their local fighter practices to hone their skills but Combat Archers
must have melee events.
At Bordermarch Melees this fall we had around 30 Combat archers and
there was almost no overlap with 3 Kings I think that is a good number
of archers for an event that size.
My war company hopes to field about 10 archers at war this year. We may
have a couple more. And the archers we bring will be equipped with the
necessary equipment and quantity of ammo to be effective.
Regards,
-Eadric
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