[Ansteorra-archery] Some Gulf War XIII Combat Archery Stats

Jeanie Collins JCollins at CCSB.com
Fri Jul 30 10:58:21 PDT 2004 

Thank you Arcus Ironwyrm for your kind words.

(with only a small grin)
Lady Alienor
 

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From: ansteorra-archery-bounces+jcollins=ccsb.com at ansteorra.org
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Behalf Of arcusironwyrm at juno.com
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 2:55 PM
To: ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-archery] Some Gulf War XIII Combat Archery Stats

Tisk, tisk, picky, picky, picky!  

God bless each and every one of our Lady combat archers too!

We love you all!

Ironwyrm

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:33:08 -0500 "Susan Hill" <sueorintx at hotmail.com>
writes:
> Please forgive my impertinance, Arcus Eadric, but knowing that there 
> are many women among those upon the field of battle in these times, I 
> am
> 
> compelled to amend your response to Arcus Jaque. As I, too, hope to 
> take the field in the not too distant future, I feel that I must stand

> up for my sisters.
> 
> Respectfully, (and with a wink of the eye)
> 
> Lady Linet Grey
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Eadric Anstapa" <eadric at scabrewer.com>
> Reply-To: eadric at scabrewer.com,        Archery within the Kingdom of 
> 
> Ansteorra<ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org>
> To: <jspinks at ix.netcom.com>,        "Archery within the Kingdom of 
> Ansteorra"<ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-archery] Some Gulf War XIII Combat Archery 
> Stats
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:37:16 -0000
> 
> You are correct there are no direct records kept at war of who was 
> there that could use what equipment, and if it was it would be of 
> little use on the field.  The use would only be for statistical 
> purposes after the fact.  If you are a marshal and you need to verify 
> that someone is authorized to use a weapon then you go up to them and 
> ask to see their authorization card.
> 
> If you needed to be able to look out on the field and see that a 
> fighter was using a weapon that he/she was authorized for them you 
> would have to mark the fighters in some meaningful way.  So in that 
> case we would have to put some colored tape on the fighter to 
> represent which side he/she was on, then put a different colored tape 
> on him/her to indicate that he/she was sword/board authorized, then 
> put different tape on him/her to indicate that he/she was missile 
> combat authorized, then put different tape to indicate that he/she was

> fiberglass spear authorized, then put different tape on him/her to 
> indicate that he/she was siege authorized, then put different tape on 
> him/her to indicate that he/she was unpadded glaive authorized, etc. 
> etc.
> 
> When every fighter comes through inspection point his/her card is 
> checked to see that he/she is an authorized fighter of some sort.
> If he
> is authorized and his/her armor passes inspection then he/she is gets 
> a stikker on his/her helm to prove that he/she went trough the 
> inspection process and he/she is allowed on the field.  We trust that 
> he/she is a noble and honorable person and will only use weapons 
> he/she is authorized to use because there is no practical way to 
> police that in large melees.
> 
> Lets face it,  I could go through inspection point in armor, present 
> my card, be inspected, and get the appropriate sticker on my helm, and

> then go back to camp and give someones else my helm (with the
> sticker) and let them go out on the field without the rest of his 
> armor being inspected or withotu him ever having to repsent an auth 
> card.  Unless we fully inspect every fighter before every melee there 
> is just to practical way to police this.  At some point you have to 
> trust people to do the right thing and just satisfy yourself with 
> punishing them harshly when they knowingly do the wrong thing.
> 
> Weapons are likewise inspected and some of them are marked either with

> spray paint or stickers.  Every bow and or crossbow gets an inspection

> sticker on it that has it's vital information.
> 
> Arrows and bolts are not marked, they are just logged.  It would be a 
> massive amount of work to mark each of the throusands of arrows that 
> come through inspection and quite honestly even if they are marked you

> a marshal really cant look out on the field and tell that so it is 
> only any good after the fact.
> 
> Now, at Pennsic where many of the particpants are anti-CA they make 
> you take all of your arrows and bolts back to the fromal inspection 
> point EVERY DAY.  They have to be reinspected EVERY DAY, and have the 
> "Color of the Day" spray painted on them.  You are not supposed to go 
> on the field unless your arrow has the color of the day on it and if 
> you get caught using arrows that dont have the color of the day then 
> you dont get to go on the field anymore for that event.
> 
> If we had to reinspect 7000 arrows/bolts every day we would never get 
> it done, at the end of the war your arrows have so much paint on them 
> that they look like crap and it all blurs together and you can't tell 
> what was sprayed where or when.  Once again, we try to trust that 
> people do the right things.  If we catch you using illegal arrows then

> you come off the field and we go to marshals court if needed.  You are

> expected to tell us when and where the arrows you where using were 
> inspected and we look in the looks books to verify that and handle it 
> as is appropriate.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Arcus Eadric Anstapa
> Ansteorra
> eadric at scabrewer.com
> 
> 
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