The Weekly Warfare   Musings martial from across the SCA

This past weekend, Wistric, Aedh, Tassin, and myself drove up to Dante’s for the second of his Champions practices in Fredericksburg. Saturday was a tad bit rainy, but it didn’t really rain on us much. Fortunately it was quite a bit warmer than the last of these. In addition to the 5 of us, Brian […]

K’berg put on a small local event this weekend basically meant to be just fun, because lots of events tend to be about something else.  I was working Gate the majority of the day, so somebody else will have to talk about the fighting.   Somebody else, take it away…

I didn’t go, somebody else who did should sound off on how it went, what they thought of the scenarios, etc (Tassin, I know you got thoughts)

How’d it go for you?   (One of these days somebody else will do an event post mortem…) The day’s fighting broke up in to three pieces: Part 1: Woods Melee First was an hour or so long woods melee.  There were three capture points along the center of the field.  Each side had three […]

Sooooo… how was yours?

Two Saturdays back some 25-30 fencers gathered, of their own volition, in 40 degree weather with a 15 degree wind chill, to push each other to their top game. It was a great time. The practice served a nominal and a secondary purpose: First, to train our fighters for champions fight settings with high pressure, […]

I won.  That was pretty sweet.  So was the mead. The Ymir Tourney It was low 30’s, snowing intermittently, raining intermittently, and miserable.  I kept thinking “We should’ve been practicing outside during the winter!”  I also kept thinking “I should’ve put on my silk sock liners” and “I should’ve been practicing with my silk glove […]

Saturday Friday I looked at the schedule and thought “Huh, I don’t have to be anywhere until noon.  Cool.”  So Saturday morning did not start particularly early or particularly quickly.  Sweetums arrived on site, and we got Livia bundled off to the “Combat Archery Tournament” which, it turned out, was more of a combat archery […]

Friday Two years back, when I was RMiC, Sacred Stone wanted to have rapier war points on Friday.  I borrowed a phrase I’d learned in French class (“Tu m’en fou!”) and helpfully declined to interpret.  But, boiled down, it meant I didn’t think there’d be anybody on site on Friday of War of the Wings […]

Most of the Kappellenfechters headed up to Jamaica (no, Letia stayed home), VA this past weekend. Vlad is a big fan of the melee training, so his coronation was a five man melee tourney.  It had originally been planned to be a “bring a team of up to 8 fighters.  You can field no more […]