[Sca-cooks] Hurling OT was Onagers

[Terry Decker]

While the game is sometimes referred to as hurley, the correct term is 
hurling.  The hurley (caman) is the stick used in the game.

The game is fairly rough and tumble but there were and are rules, often 
honored in the breach as in hockey and lacrosse.  The modern rules (without 
getting into the specifics of positional play) are:

  1.. A player can run a maximum of four steps with the sliotar (ball) in 
his/her hand.
  2.. A player may take as many steps as he/she wishes while carrying the 
sliotar on the boss of the hurley.
  3.. A player may take the sliotar into his/her hand up to two times while 
travelling in possesion.
  4.. The sliotar may not be thrown; the correct hand-pass technique must be 
used.
  5.. The sliotar may not be picked directly from the ground; the roll-lift 
or the jab-lift must be used.
  6.. A player who is in possesion may not score with his/her hand.
  7.. If the sliotar is in flight, a player may score by striking the ball 
with his/her hand.
  8.. Three defenders may stand on the goal-line when a penalty is being 
taken.
  9.. A free-puc is awarded when a defender strikes the ball over his/her 
own endline.
  10.. Three points are equal to one goal.
Because the game is one of movement, stationary trebuchets would be an 
anathema.  However, a bigger field and a bunch of firbolg might make for a 
great show.

Bear

> Bear commented:
>> What an ungodly thought, playing hurling with trebuchets.  I can see 
>> squads
>> of hurlers the size of linebackers pushing trebuchets the size of Bobcats
>> through the mud.
> It actually sounds like it could be quite interesting.
> Maybe you could do it at Pennsic or a couple of baronies at an event 
> somewhere. You'd have to have a pretty large site though. Say a 
> quarter-mile by quarter-mile sized field. Maybe less if you were using the 
> four tennis ball SCA ammo. Bowling balls would work, and in less space, 
> but you wouldn't want to be where it came down. :-)
>
> I doubt you would want to be moving the trebs up and down the field. 
> You've probably want them in various placed and ranged positions, although 
> you'd probably want to be able to turn them to point towards various of 
> your own trebs positioned down the field. You'd depend upon your team 
> members ranging across the field to get the "rock" to the closest treb. It 
> would have to be the "closest" treb of your team's to keep someone from 
> running the "rock" the entire distance.
>
> While hurley in period, was known for its lack of rules, I think in this 
> case you would need a few. so that someone didn't get caught and tossed by 
> one of the trebs or catapults.
>
> Maybe you'd want several "rocks" in action at once.
>
> Careful though, wild thinking like this is what caused the Florilegium 
> Tile Project. :-)
>
> Stefan
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