ANSTHRLD - Question on CD's

[tmcd at jump.net]

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Teceangl <tierna at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> The laurel wreath always counts.  Period.  Always.

That's the easy way to go -- it hardly ever matters.

> X.3. says that if you're counting two devices, each with the _same_
> restricted charge (laurel wreath, crown, etc.) as primary charge,
> you can get X.1. or X.2. difference for secondary charges and
> pretend the laurel wreath or crown or whatever isn't there.

Um, no.  To quote again:

    3.  Required Charges Transparent - Two pieces of official Society
    armory that share required charges may consider their Difference
    of Primary Charges as if the required charges were not there.

    This is to avoid penalizing the slight increase in complexity
    caused when official armory includes required charges like the
    laurel wreath or crown.  As an example, "Gules, a hammer within a
    laurel wreath and on a chief Or three fleurs-de-lys gules" would
    not conflict with "Gules, a mullet within a laurel wreath and on a
    chief Or three fleurs-de-lys gules".  Required charges always
    count normally for difference themselves, this rule only ignores
    the complexity they add to a design.  This provision may not be
    applied when comparing official Society armory with any other
    armory.

It does not say that the required charge is the primary, much less the
same charge on each.  The example given doesn't have any required
charges as primary.

It does not say you can get X.1.  It says Difference of Primary
Charges only, which is X.2.

Basically, X.3 ought to be a subclause of X.2's infro paragraph.
Well, actually, the whole Napoleonic notion of "required charges"
should be tossed into the trash.

Daniel de Lincolia
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