[Elfsea] fighter practice thoughts

[Sir Morgan Buchanan]

Essentially, 2 entities need to be at practice.

1)  An authorized marshal
2)  A warrented officer of the local group

If the Knight Marshal is an authorized marshal and in attendance, he 
suffices as both.

Practices are fairly often "officially cancelled" simply because the KM 
can't attend, and no other warrented officers attend, even though many other 
fighters attend who also happen to be marshals.  There is selom a lack of 
entity 1 above, but without the KM, there is often a lack of entity 2, and 
therefore practices get cancelled.  The problem, you see, is that deputies 
are NOT warrented.

That's the official mumbo jumbo of the situation.

If you don't have enough fighters who will show up anyway and UNofficially 
practice, that's another problem entirely, and I belive Sior Tomas has 
covered it pretty well.

If you KNOW other fighters who are marshals are going to be present, and you 
KNOW that other warrented officers of the Barony will be present, and THEY 
have agreed to deal with the waivers for the practice, there is no need to 
cancel it.  If your practice is getting 3-4 people, the odds of making those 
requirements get slim, or at least that was my experience as the Central 
Regional Knight Marshal prior to handing that office over to Sior Tomas.

I hope that helps, or at least illuminates.  :)

Sir Morgan Buchanan

> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:41:27 -0600
> From: "Wilkerson, Glen D" <glen.d.wilkerson at lmco.com>
>
> I did not have time to make a detailed reading of Section 12, only
> skimmed it, so we need to know:  What, exactly, are the duties of the
> marshals at practice, especially as regards authorizations, waivers, and
> record keeping?  And would it help the marshalate if a lot more fighters
> volunteered as deputies?