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

[arcusironwyrm at juno.com]

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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