[Ansteorra-archery] Gulf War News

[david a. sawyer]

I have to Greylond credit for that one he has a good point .

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:15:32 -0800 (PST) Greylond Aston
<greylondaston at yahoo.com> writes:
> Quite a few of Trimaris' Archers train as Units all
> year long, notably Sir Erica's. They are doing it now.
>
> Also, remember that this list and alot of lists in
> Ansteorra are pretty much open and Trimaris reads at
> least some of them. If you are discussing actual
> battle plans here, you might as well consider them as
> being read by the Trimarians.
>
>
> YIS
>
> Greylond
>
>
> --- Eadric Anstapa <eadric at scabrewer.com> wrote:
> > We did get butts busted in the Archers Only battle
> > last year and I am told
> > most years before.
> >
> > After all of the non Ansteorran/Trimaran archers
> > where assigned to fight
> > with Ansteorra we actually had 1 more archer than
> > they did.  We still lost.
> >
> > As Lord Lughaidh indicated we lost because the
> > Trimaran forces were better
> > organized.  They work well together usually working
> > in teams of two or three
> > archers.  Of the several members in the team usually
> > at least one of them is
> > loaded and ready to shoot to cover the other archers
> > while the reload or
> > move and to take advantage of any shot opportunities
> > that present
> > themselves.  The also were better organized for
> > resupply with their little
> > resupply wagon on the field.
> >
> > We are still working out scenario details and will
> > be for quite sometime.
> > If you have scenario suggestions please send them to
> > me directly.  As soon
> > as the scenarios are decided I will communicate the
> > details.
> >
> > I would like to suggest that we start planning now
> > for an archers meeting
> > the day before so that we can go over the terrain
> > and to coordinate and
> > communicate the battle plans.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Lord Eadric Anstapa
> > Kingdom Archery Marshal, Ansteorra
> > eadric at scabrewer.com
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Travis W. Jennings"
> > <travis.jennings at attbi.com>
> > To: <ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org>
> > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:05 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Ansteorra-archery] Gulf War News
> >
> >
> > Well then my suggestion would be to start planning
> > and organizing now!
> > We were totally slaughtered last year.  It wasn't
> > due to a lack of
> > skill, but rather a lack of organization.  I think
> > the battle was the
> > best two-out-of-three, and Trimaris won 2-0.  They
> > were completely
> > organized and followed a well thought out and
> > practiced plan.  They were
> > lead by an archer-knight, Sir Erica, and her 4 red
> > belted squires.
> >
> > When it was time for the battle to begin, Ansteorra
> > had *9* archers
> > total present ready to fight.  They assigned all
> > neutral kingdom's
> > archers to Ansteorra, (before opening day and all
> > alliances were
> > determined) and we were still outnumbered.
> >
> > Archers in Trimaris are held in very high regards.
> > They have a very
> > large archery community.  They have many knights and
> > squires that are
> > archers.  I've heard rumor that there is currently a
> > waiting list to
> > order baldur blunts because orders are coming out of
> > Florida faster than
> > they can be produced.  In order to take this point
> > we must amass a much
> > larger force of archers than we have now  And we
> > must plan, communicate,
> > and practice a well thought out proven battle
> > strategy.
> >
> > We won the static archery war point last year for
> > the first time in Gulf
> > War history.  It was scored by taking the top 7
> > scores submitted from
> > each kingdom and totaled up.  The highest cumulative
> > score of the top 7
> > was the determining factor.
> >
> > Let's make next year a continuation of firsts and
> > take the combat
> > archery war point!
> >
> > Ld. Lughaidh Mac Sheóinín
> > Bryn Gwlad Baronial Archery Champion
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ansteorra-archery-admin at ansteorra.org
> > [mailto:ansteorra-archery-admin at ansteorra.org] On
> > Behalf Of Eadric
> > Anstapa
> > Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 10:50 PM
> > To: ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org;
> > ansteorra-missile at ansteorra.org
> > Subject: [Ansteorra-archery] Gulf War News
> >
> >
> > Greetings Everyone,
> >
> > At the Gulf War meeting this weekend some plans were
> > made for the war
> > point battles at Gulf War.  The Town Battle was
> > added as a War Point.
> > Unfortunately, that left and odd number of war
> > points and means that an
> > overwhelming tie would have been impossible.
> > Therefore, another war
> > point was needed.  It was decided that the 14th War
> > Point will be the
> > ARCHERS ONLY BATTLE.
> >
> > Yep, that's right, the Combat Archers of this
> > Kingdom will be
> > responsible for a War Point all on their own.  This
> > is both a great
> > honor and a big responsibility for the archers of
> > Ansteorra.
> >
> > Currently the plans are for the Archers Only Battle
> > War Point to be held
> > on Thursday Morning.  However, we will likely have
> > some other archers
> > only friendship battles earlier in the week to help
> > us prepare.
> >
> > Start beating the war drums.  Sharpen your arrows
> > and ready your bows.
> >
> > ON TO TRIMARIS!
> >
> > Lord Eadric Anstapa
> > Kingdom Archery Marshal, Ansteorra
> > eadric at scabrewer.com
> >
> >
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