[Ansteorra-missile] Need Authorizing Marshals

[Pug Bainter]

Robin Allen (robinbjornsborg at yahoo.com) said something that sounded like:
>    At Gothic last weekend we had 4 heavy fighters who were interested
> in getting authorized as combat archers. Trouble is we had no archers
> who were warranted to authorize. Patrick Michael and Ulsted were both
> there and said they could take care of it but I need to follow up on
> that. This needs to be looked into as it is difficult to for some fighters
> (especially out in the Western Region) to get to some events and they
> may be waiting a long time for an event where they can get authorized.

This is major problem. There are very few authorizing marshals and
even fewer CA authorizing marshals. This is roughly proportional to the
number of fighers to CA combatants. The process of how to get authorized
is quite clearly laid out for many months now and folks that do not have
someone local to them (or who knows their abilities well enough) they
should contact the authorizing marshals to make arrangements. If they
don't know who they are, they should contact the Regional or Kingdom
Archery Marshal.

Now that being said, I've only had one person from the *Northern* region
contact me about combat archers getting authorized in the Western
region. This was at the last minute even.

I've only had one or two people contact me about marshals out there which
I told them we could work on but it wasn't something that they would be
able to do without field training. You don't just learn all the rules
and safety measures in an hour.

The Western region has problems with archery in general and CA in
specific. There is not any driving forces out there with the experience
to resolve this problem. When there is no activity in the region there
is not likely to be anyone who *can* authorize due to a lack of experience.
It's a bad catch-22, but not one that I can easily solve and I
absolutely not do it by authorizing people I have never seen do the job.

Btw, I had full intention of being there but I was unable to make it
due to my health. I had also thought Arcus Fearghus and Arcus Ironwyrm
were going to be there.

Ciao,

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