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Ah, but we all know the standard French fighting position. Feet spread
shoulder width apart, Hands and arms raised above their heads. ;o)<br>
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Because we run out of ammo by then silly. <br>
<br>
Iaen<br>
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Paul Thorne wrote:
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cite="mid:99745d9d0812161626o4d4c024bnbb7ffdc1e515cd65@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hey, let's not bring the French bashing into this! The
French were cool, for approx. 0.5 seconds before dropping their stuff
and running...but that's gotta count for something right?<br>
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It's amazing what will get wrapped up in the discussions over "safety"
when you break down most of the conversations it really comes down to
gameplay and how they feel CA is overwhelming on the battlefield. Of
course if CA was so domineering why is it that at the end of the ravine
battle that it isn't just down to nothing but Archers at the end?<br>
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-JP (disgruntled Frenchman)<br>
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Viva la...meh...<br>
<br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/16/08, <b
class="gmail_sendername">Susan McMahill</b> <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sueorintx@hotmail.com">sueorintx@hotmail.com</a>>
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<div>One thing that I did find rather interesting is that there are
a number of folks who would like to restrict rate of fire, especially
from crossbows. This includes outlawing 'belly-cocking." As most of the
combat crossbowmen and women I know do some sort of what I would call
'belly-cocking,' This caught my attention. Apparently certain factions
believe that this causes a crossbowman to be able to reload and fire at
an 'unacceptable' rate of fire. It has been brought up, however, that
the rate of fire they have been discussing is historically accurate.
There hasn't been a lot more said about that. These same folks would
like to have a restriction in amounts of ammo available to archers and
crossbows. Boy, wouldn't Henry V have loved someone to restrict the
number of arrows that his archers were able to shoot at Agincourt?
Jeeze! Sounds like a bunch of disgruntled Frenchmen to me!<br>
<br>
Anyway, this onslaught really caught me by surprise as I had just
joined the SCA Combat Archery list the day all this started. I've been
getting about 6 digests a day with up to 25 messages per digest. A
little overwhelming, to say the least. I am hoping it slows down a bit.<br>
<br>
Sir Kenneth, I was actually thinking of emailing you about all this
'stuff'. We have several knights in Ansteorra that are CA friendly so I
don't think that the issue is that great here. As Iaen said, most of
this discontent is from the easternmost reaches of the Knowne World.
Hopefully as more of them become aware of the new rules for CA, they
can stop running around screeching about the sky falling. I guess they
live too close to Wall Street. <img moz-do-not-send="true" alt=""
height="19" width="19"><br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Lyneya<br>
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<br>
<font face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive">Well-behaved women Seldom
make history - <font size="1">Laurel Thatcher Ulrich</font></font><br>
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:06:07 -0600<br>
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Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-archery] Newest Attack on CA?
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Sir Kenneth, as it stands right now I wouldn't worry too much about
it. Quite a bit of gum flapping by some. Quite a bit of insult flying
early on and somewhat still. Some really good talks about some
things. Those are mostly about crowd safety and netting on the
sidelines. Sir Omarad came on the list and told all we can discuss
away but any changes would have to go through the Kingdom marshalletes
and up the chain of command. He made it pretty clear any CA changes
asked for would have to go through the SCAM before anything got to him.<br>
<br>
Sir Lyonel has actually been fairly supportive of the CA situation.
Surprised the hell out of me about that. He is mainly wondering why we
have such ridiculous rules for the archers. You might want to pop him
an email and get his stance for yourself. I think as far as I can tell
he is the only knight from Ansteorra that has spoken up in the
discussion. There have been several others (mostly from the western
kingdoms) who have spoken up for CA also. Most of the dissenters seem
to be from the eastern seaboard kingdoms. <br>
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That is my view on what has been happening so far. Lots of wind and
not much else.<br>
<br>
Iaen Mor<br>
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Ken Theriot wrote: <br>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">What
information does anyone here have on this? Sir Lyonel just posted this
to the Chiv list.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">A number of knights in various kingdoms are
pressing, lately, to ban fibreglass shaft ammunition and allow only
100# siloflex bolts and arrows on the battlefield. </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">I confess
that I don't frequent the SCA-wide lists, so I hadn't heard of this
until now. Does this have a chance? What is driving this? Lyonel put
a pool out to our list to get the opinion of our chivalry on it asking
just one question…"do you agree with this?" I don't expect many of the
Ansteorran chivalry to support such an idiotic (sorry…to strong a
word?) proposal. I just wanted to find out what anyone else might know
about it.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Thanks.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Kenneth</span></font></p>
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