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Jed Tressler wrote:
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<div>So a question for consideration and debate. The impetuous for
this question comes from considering the requirements of combat archery
in regard to our other contact activities.</div>
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<div>Why do you have to go to a melee practice to get authorized as a
Combat Archer?</div>
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<div>I ask this question because I believe the necessity of a melee
practice for authorization is a major block for allot of people joining
this activity. Also, I believe that if we look very carefully at what
it is important for a combat archer to demonstrate in that melee, we
can actually design authorization techniques that require only a few
people (say 5ish) instead of the 20 I see more often looked for.</div>
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Actually, I did one last weekend with 8 fighters on the field. It
doesn't <i>have</i> to be a 20-man melee, just a melee.<br>
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Now, when I was in Atlantia they did CA authorizations one-on-one with
a single heavy fighter, who chased the archer around while the archer
tried to reload and shoot him. The advantage is that it doesn't take
more than 1 fighter to do this; the disadvantage is that it's about as
far from a melee as you can get.<br>
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I think doing archery in a melee setting is a Good Thing, since archery
is purely a melee activity. You just about never see it anywhere else
than on the melee field. Whether other fighters should also be
authorized in melee combat (and have to authorize in a melee as well)
is another issue altogether. But you can get AC authorized and go fight
in tourneys; as a combat archer you won't be doing this, so our
authorizations are oriented around what you <i>will</i> be doing as an
archer.<br>
<br>
Charles,<br>
BG<br>
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