Wistric, on March 30th, 2016
Thursday morning was set aside for order meetings (where I discovered the best way to do an order meeting is standing in the back, drinking mimosas, banned by law from voting) and for the champions duels.
I watched for a while, hang out and chatted, and then wandered back to camp to get ready […]
Wistric, on March 29th, 2016 Armored Ravine Battle
Wednesday morning I woke up feeling like I’d spent about three hours in the sun in heavy armor the day before. Because I did. In other words, I wanted nothing more from life except to drink coffee and eat bacon and watch everybody else go off to fight. Then I armored up […]
Wistric, on March 25th, 2016 This year saw Wistric’s return to Gulf Wars, and perhaps the gods were unhappy about that. Really, though, I think the gods just think there are too many MODs: Damiano (Glean Abhann) and David (Meridies) got postponed due to the weather (more on that later) and Caitilin nearly did.
Having finally managed to Iron Man […]
Wistric, on March 21st, 2016 Reports!
(And, yes, that’s the official title here at the Warfare)
Gawin, on January 31st, 2016 It has been a long time since we posted anything about melee, so for a change of pace, I thought I’d provide a recap of a melee training that I ran recently. I was not initially planning on attending the event (5 hour drives are the new normal for event travel, but it’s a bit […]
Wistric, on January 21st, 2016 (Things I find when going back through the draft post folder)
Baron/Duke Orlando Cavalcanti asked me to write up the details of my vigil and elevation for his historical records. The below is that write-up, with extra info. Later, maybe next week, I’ll have a post about my thoughts on the vigil […]
Wistric, on January 20th, 2015 (Because fighting can’t happen without a place to do it)
The SCA is running into an increasingly more common situation. The basics of it are that our expectations for event site costs have not kept up with the reality of event site costs, which has kept event cost inflation artificially low, and we’re approaching a […]
Wistric, on August 18th, 2014 MONDAY
The warpoint plan was that rapier and heavy would fight the same scenarios (mostly) on the same day, which held promise of the back-to-back woods battles, one of the best endurance tests I’ve ever encountered. Monday was the day for field battles!
HEAVY FIELD BATTLE
The Queen’s Spears rallied up, 8-10 in number. Duke […]
Ruairc, on July 8th, 2014 Ibrahim, Gaiwn, and myself squeezed into Gawin’s hatchback and drove out to rural Virginia. At one point we stalled out on a gravel mountain road and had to push. It was that kind of day.
The Site
Chantilly Festival Farm only opened a little over a year ago, and the place is beautiful – 90 […]
Ruairc, on April 12th, 2014 Thursday
There was an Everyman tourney, open to all non-WS. I fought single sword in accordance with my training, per Fabris (which got some compliments. That’s always nice). A number of my opponents did not.
My strategy was, generally, “keep their sword covered, stay at measure, and wait until their secondary is out of […]
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