[Ansteorra] Armor standards (was: Earl Marshal Out of Kingdom:

[Chris Zakes]

At 01:57 PM 10/5/2006, you wrote:


> >Just big steel pipes! We could always put some rattan inside or
> >something... to help keep it from brooming.
> >
> >Morg...er... Geoffrey
>
>Bah! Big deal! You kids nowadays don't know what it was
>like before the BoD stepped in with all these new fangled
>"Safety Rules".
>
>Why, in my day we fought bare-handed using rebar for
>swords and manhole covers as shields. Our fingers would
>get mashed in the holes so we'd have to wait for the
>swelling to go down before we could down-armor.
>Not that thick jeans and a ski mask would be considered to
>be "armor" by you young wussies.
>
>And we wuz grateful!
>
>Gunthar


I'm not sure if this is scary or funny, but the armor standards the 
kids are using for *boffer* combat today are pretty close to what was 
used for *armored* combat when I joined.

Freon can helm, gorget, kidney belt, hockey gloves, knee and elbow 
pads. Cups for the guys.

         -Tivar Moondragon