[Ansteorra-archery] Archery Discussion

Jed Tressler jed.tressler at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 13:21:46 PDT 2008


What was the maximum archer (Ansteorran) attendance at a battle last gulf
war?  Do we have any idea how this compares to the number of people at war
who were CA authorized and didn't shoot?
Bastian

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Ken Theriot <kentheriot at ravenboymusic.com>wrote:

> Oops.  Disregard my question from the last post.  Obviously you're on this
> list:).
>
> Kenneth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Brown [mailto:caladin at io.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:58 PM
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> Subject: [Ansteorra-archery] Archery Discussion
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to talk about what we can do to encourage Combat Archery.
>
> We in recent years have come to gulf with fewer Archers than Trimaris,
>
> Add this to the big Morale hit the archers are taking with the new rule
> changes,
>
> And I'm afraid we're going to be in trouble.
>
> For those of you who didn't experience it a fresh at Gothic, being
> outnumbered
>
> By archers is a really unhappy place to be :). So I'd like to discuss
> what we can do
>
> To share that experience with our enemies instead of keeping it all to
> ourselves. :)
>
> Here are some of the ideas I've heard so far.
>
> - Start practicing with the archers included. Involve them in each
> maneuver.
>
> This is to help them feel more included and build esprit de corps..
>
> - Fundraisers for ammo upgrade costs.
>
> - Build archers into plans specifically, as at the ravine battle at gulf
> where they
>
> Were supposed to all attack a specific point just before we charged it.
>
> - Make sure not to schedule archer battles at Gulf at the same time as
> HW battles..
>
> (or so close there is no time to move from one to the other ie how it
> was last year.)
>
> Does anyone know who we should talk to about this one? Who's our liaison
> to the
>
> scheduling of Gulf?
>
> - Buy all our significant others a crossbow & armor for Christmas. ( :) )
>
> I know there are some folks who aren't the biggest fans of CA (although
> I'm a fan), and I ask please
>
> that we set that aside and support them for this Gulf War. It's a known
> fact that the enemy
>
> will have CA at Gulf, lets band together to make sure WE have more than the
>
> Enemy, so that they experience far more suckage than we do.
>
> Think of Archer Dominance, like Air Superiority in modern combat. If you
> have it, its gives you near total freedom
>
> To do what you want on the ground, and if you don't have it, you are
> strongly inhibited from doing what YOU
>
> Want to do on the ground. Do you want to be roaming the field hitting
> where you want, or do you want to be
>
> Huddled behind a shield waiting for a chance to do something?
>
> More archers = More fun for everyone (on our side :)).
>
> I'd like to set Archer dominance as one of our goals for next Gulfwar
> and the Gulfwar after,
>
> What do you think, how can we do it, and who's willing to step up to
> help organize and lead?
>
> Sir Kenneth has volunteered to step up as a Combat Archery Liason, to
> help drive this effort,
>
> But we need more than one man to make this happen.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Caladin-
>
>
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