ST - Rumors? Let's put them to bed.

[willowjonbardc at juno.com]

I don't want to disagree with you but there are a lot of heavy fighter
who don't like archers. Duke John Bearkiller being a famous one.  You
will find many knights, masters and nobles who don't like archery. They
are the favorite target of archers. You will find period people who
didn't like archery in tournaments. (Our wars are more like their
tournaments.)The Monk of Montuban wrote a poem complaining about archers.
 Your will find many regular fighters who dislike archery and archers
because they traveled eight or more hours to a war and never got to fight
 because they were shot by archers. That happened to me at one of my Gulf
Wars and spoiled the whole event for me. There are people who go to wars
to make a name for themselves and they get a chance to fight a famous
knight and some archer kills him before they can fight.  This can be very
disappointing. There are many problem dealing with archery in wars. There
was many people who kept them out of our wars until now.   But Archery is
period and has a right to be part of game. If we face the practical
problems we can work out a compromise that will work. We are grown ups
not children so we should be able to deal with the problem without
hurting each others feelings.
Duchess Willow de Wisp

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:10:46 CDT "Mordock von Rugen"
<mordockvonrugen at hotmail.com> writes:
> I've heard a couple of disturbing rumors that I'd like to put to bed 
> as soon 
> as possible - these sorts of things always just get uglier if they 
> aren't 
> confronted.
> 
> The first rumor is that heavy fighters are unwilling to work with 
> archers in 
> Steppes.  To my knowledge, no heavy fighters have been asked to go 
> work with 
> any archers at any practice.  Moreover, I am well aware that 
> IronWyrm is 
> working on getting clearance to do combat archery at Flagpole Hill 
> so that 
> combat archers and heavy fighters can practice together.  The heavy 
> fighters 
> that I know are eagerly awaiting this development, and have been 
> since it 
> was first announced three or four months ago.
> 
> The second rumor is that heavy fighters snub archers, don't much 
> care for 
> them, and consider them second class citizens.  No heavy fighter 
> that I know 
> has this opinion of archers.  If there are heavy fighters with this 
> kind of 
> opinion, they don't voice it in my hearing.  I like archers very 
> much - they 
> are an outstanding force multiplier that any commander would be an 
> idiot to 
> snub.  The Fray has two archers who fight with us currently, and we 
> are 
> actively recruiting for more.
> 
> Hopefully, this will help put to bed any further developments of 
> these 
> rumors.  If you hear any rumor of this sort, please pass on the 
> contents of 
> this post, in whole or in part - hurtful rumors of this kind only 
> hurt all 
> of us.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mordock von Rügen (usually called Dux)
> Hlaford, Fray Ansteorra
>
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