[Loch-ruadh] New Siege Rules

[Adam Harrison]

Good evening everyone,

It is my unhappy duty as siege marshal to report that
the new siege rules have been passed by the BoD.  I
haven't had a chance to actually look at the passed
rules, but I'm imagining they are about the same as
the rules we were confronted with at the first of the
year.

In other words, ~425 of our 500 ballista bolts are no
longer legal.  Bungeelistas have been outlawed, so if
we lose the 3x5 cards Lawrence signed this past year,
or have to make extensive repairs on them, they will
no longer be allowed on the field.  PVC is no longer
allowed for shafting of ballista bolts(however it is
still allowed for reinforcement of the bolt).

There are other rules that have been changed, but I
can't think of them at the moment.  Those above are
the big BIG changes.

Now we need to look ahead to war.  We need to get our
engines out of storage and repair them if necessary.
For those bungeelistas damaged to a considerable
degree, we may need to build torsion boxes for them.

Before we go haywire on rebuilding ammo, we need to
see if special conventions will be set up for Gulf
Wars.  If conventions allowing the old bolts are not
allowed, then we have some serious work to do.  Those
of you who attended our initial bolt building parties
last January know what a pain in the behind the new
bolts are to make, and how slow the process goes.  It
will literally take months to get our bolts up to the
new specs.

As upset as I am about this, we knew this day would
come.  I'm confident that we can rebuild and renovate
our siege equipment in a short amount of time and be
better prepared for war than ever before and be twice
the presence we were last year.

below I have attached the Society Siege Marshal's
message to the SCA-siege list.

-Bjorn
Siege Marshal for Loch Ruadh and Elfsea


--- Chris Nogy <cnogy at dicksonstreet.com> wrote:
> To: SCA-Siege at yahoogroups.com
> From: "Chris Nogy" <cnogy at dicksonstreet.com>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:38:25 -0500
> Reply-to: SCA-Siege at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [SCA-Siege] Rules passed by BoD!!!!
>
> Here is part of the note I got from the BoD just a
> few hours ago, in request to information on the
> Siege Rules.
>
> Eringlen hasn't said anything yet, but I don't think
> he will mind if I post this
>
>
> >Hi Kaz,
>
> >Yes!  We passed it, to go into effect October 1st.
> I guess you should start publicising it...
>
> <SNIP>
>
> >Matt/Geoffrey
>
> So, because of the dilligence of the SEM's
> publications assistant, we have a beautifully
> organized and extremely nicely layed-out handbook.
>
> So far, I have only got the adobe .pdf file on a
> website, but it can be found at
>
>
http://users.dicksonstreet.com/~cnogy/SCASiege/Documents/SEH.pdf
>
> All that is case sensitive, so cut and paste.
>
> As soon as my official Siege Marshal site is
> complete, I will post the URL to it.  This is just a
> holding position for things of real importance.
>
> I have requested the original text file for this
> document, so I can post it to the list and make note
> of the archive that it is posted in - and I will
> post this to the egroups list file area as well.
>
> Well, here we go
>
> Kaz
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
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