Dragaera

Armor (Was: Tidnits for Steve)

Wed Jul 10 06:44:43 PDT 2002

Felix wrote:

>
>Starshadow writes:
>> Heh.......I get it.  Too true, both ways.  I prefer the days before they 
>went 
>>  banging about like tin cans, myself.  They never talk about how many 
>knights 
>>  were fainting because of heat prostration.......I wonder......
>
>Wonder no more -- or at least, wonder less.  Instead, find out where your 
>nearest major SCA event/war is going to happen, and go watch.  At Pennsic, 
>when there are somewhere around 4-500 men on the field -- this is just an 
>estimate, btw, as I've never paid any attention to the actual numbers that 
>participate in the field battle -- they break the action very, very 
>frequently -- as in, every couple of minutes, at the very longest.  At that 
>point, the volunteers go to work, bringing water bottles to the fighters.  
>Anyone who's been recently 'killed' stands and clears off, too.

Wait, was Starshadow talking about SCA combats or real historical
ones? I thought she was talking about real historical combats, in
which there were no volunteers to bring water bottles to the fighters.

-- 
Adina