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About where are you from? I can point you to your kingdom and their chatelaine (welcome wagon/newcomer officer) can get you set up with your local group. If you don't want to answer, the group lookup tool is here: sca.org/kingdom_lookup.html Once you've found your local group, go to fighter practice (almost every group will have one weekly) and start learning. :)

Lol if he was so good then why did he lose the war?

Not really, mainly because we don't have real morale problems. If your friends are actually getting speared and hacked around you, you're much more likely to panic and run. That almost never happens in the SCA context because everyone knows they're not actually going to die.

Bridge Battles was and still are important battles the and into modern war.Bridges are a choke point for armies. Read some history on it . The last battle in movie Brave Heart really took place at a narrow stone bridge with half of England's army on the other side. The Scots slaughtered them ,any English trying to wade /swim was drowned. Reinforcements was slaughtered trying to cross the narrow bridge.Narrow areas are easy to defend even dead and wounded become a protective barricade.On a bridge many would be tossed over the side to let more be killed. There was little chance to flee as others behind would push front soldiers (often they was the poorest /worst equipped to see what the enemy would do) forward .Regular men of the line even if the wanted to flee was watched over by Sargent's and each other to keep good order. Even after a army was routed those how lived /fled had better had a good explanation why they wasn't dead . Often command leaders would react with executing say every 5th man a traitor s death , something horrible like crucifixion. You would only hope to live or wounded badly a friend would put you out of your misery before the dogs pull out and eat your intestines before you die. I'll stop with saying it was like butchers from hell worked on many hundreds leaving them to die horribly until the camp thieves finished you off.

The flanks are where the battle is won and lost. The center rarely breaks first.

George Washington put down the Whiskey Rebellion. He would have told you (and did to several people) that treason against a monarch is different than rebellion against a republic, because in the latter you had a voice and your option is the vote.

Oh yes, I'm sure Duke Ullr wasn't doing that because he just didn't think of it. Or maybe it's because he read the rules regarding engaging legged opponents. :P

Very much so. SCA rules are not the ones you find in most LARPs.

@@GamingPaladin shame. I'm not a larper, I'm an HMB fighter and an experiment where helmet strikes would be allowed yet would not score (much like they do with plate armor in 15th sentury reenactment) interested me for a long time. Not this time i guess. Interesting tactic tho. Personally i would prefer to stay on my feet so i could call, deflect and than rush into clinch but it's a risky one

Running in on a polearm doesn't work particularly well when thrusting isn't banned, and it isn't in the SCA rules. Not saying it can't be done, but the stop thrust is liable to get you, something I understand isn't allowed in HMB. Also, we're not shot counting. A good blow as judged by the person struck ends the fight, or disables the limb in the case of a blow to the extremities. That's why he went to his knees; it wasn't something he did for tactical reasons, but because he was struck in the leg.

@@RenegadePaladin thrusting is not allowed in competition. It's not like HMB fighters are never interested and can't be talked into having a sparring session with any rules you offer. At the same time your way of LARPing is very interesting. All larps I've been either provide each character with certain amount of hitpoints or create time and place that would make weapons rare, making any weapon wound lethal so that brawling is more common and less blamed behaviour. So, I'm very curious, how are games with respected hit played. Is it common in your part of the world? How often, if ever, argument emerge? How do you settle them?

It gets really obvious really fast if a fighter is ignoring blows. The marshals will eventually pull you out, and if it becomes a pattern your authorization to fight will be revoked. Before that ever happens, though, you will find yourself incredibly unpopular and unwelcome. There isn't money on the line, so cheating is rare and easily caught.

Have fun! :)

It only looks chaotic from the outside. There is a plan... most of the time. ;)

Can go back and check. I have Pennsics up on my channel going back to 38.

rebel rag lol that's all it is stop defending slavery and acting like ur not spreading hate because that's all the rag stands for

We were surprised too, but at least it came up in the first run.

Since we were on offense, we could resurrect as any other person on offense could. Thanks for posting this so I could get the timing of when each battery took out their target 🙂

@@joshuaberry4128 I'm no expert, but the Signal Corps seemed to think that historically engines haven't been subject to resurrection. I know no more on the subject than what they said when the call was asked for and made.