[Steppes] Steppes fighter levy:

[Michael Smith]

Zach, a baronial levy in this case is just a fighting unit that fights under 
the banner of the Barony.  It can be as simple as a group of individual 
fighters who decide to fight for the barony, 1 or more war units or 
households who fight under the baronial banner, or an actual "official" 
baronial war unit.  Or some combination of these options.

I wouldn't want to overstep my bounds as the knight marshal.  The 
establishment of a baronial levy is really within the purview of the Baron 
or the Warlord.  At a populace in the distant past, the idea of a baronial 
fighting unit was brought up, and at that time it didn't have even minimal 
support by the members of the barony.  I think now, with the number of 
fighters we have growing in the barony, is a good time to rejoin this 
discussion.  We have a proud household in Arkum, a growing war unit in th 
Condottieri, knightly households, and new and unattached fighters.

What do these leaders say?

Morgan


From: Zach <hellbilly_tx at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Barony of Steppes - SCA, Inc." <steppes at ansteorra.org>
To: "Barony of Steppes - SCA, Inc." <steppes at ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Steppes] Steppes fighter levy:
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:07:07 -0700 (PDT)


What exactly is a fighter levy?



As far as getting a number of fighters to get involved I thought I would let 
you know that even though me and my friends that I dragged down to fighter 
practice have not shown again it is not out of lack of interest.  In fact we 
have been spending several nights a week building armor.  We build on 
Sundays and have not been there.  There will be three new fighters, with 
about no experience but a lot of enthusiasm hitting the field with in a 
month or so.  Sooner if we can get some help on the whole armor-building 
process.


Nickolai Vatavia

ironwyrm at juno.com wrote:Morgan (the taller one),

What's the odds that we can start building a fighter levy this year from
the Barony to fight at Gulf War? We have tried over the last few years
to create such a organized levy and it just hasn't worked. Now is the
time to start preparing to get a group together for that task. As the
weather cools war practices shall begin in earnest and the battle of
"Three Queens" looms on the horizon. It has been far too long since a
Steppes banner has flown over those battlefields!

Twelve combat archers & two shieldmen from our household mercenaries whom
do call Steppes and her Cantons home have already committed to fight for
Ansteorra this coming Gulf War, however we still have three siege engines
that will need to be manned and we're accepting volunteers.

I write this note openly in the hope that those uncommitted fighters of
our Barony shall contact you so they too may be counted among our
Baronies' numbers.

If you can raise a number of fighters to join us we can have all in
readiness to raise the Steppes' war banner high above the field of war at
this year's Gulf battles.

Ironwyrm

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