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