Re: Kingdom's Crusade: an Atlantian Archer's View (LONG)

[Travis Brandel <travis@members.freedomnet.com>]

Poster: Travis Brandel <travis@members.freedomnet.com>

Donald Wagner wrote:

> Last year, we lost two field battles to a crew of five fighters who
> raked through our archers.  Steven OReilly asked for help and all I
> could give was me.  That year it was a team of five, and this year was a
> band of rogues with no cohesion and no certain number.  During this
> year's first battle, I spent way to long hunting down one fighter at a
> time.  I had great success stopping a line of men for a few seconds
> while you poke em full of holes...one at a time was a different story.
> It was worse when the first battle began with a break through the
> central army.  Ouch.
> There were suddenly twenty fighters in the backfield hunting you like
> hounds.  Wehn that didn't happen, I had enough business in the backfield
> to learn that knocking someone down is much quicker than taking time to
> kill them.
> 
> The second field battle, when we curled into a circle with the archers
> in the middle was THE MOST DECISIVE CARNAGE I HAVE EVER SEEN DISPLAYED
> IN THE SCA!!  It wasn't carrots in a Cuisinart.  It was Atlantia - La
> Machine!
> 

And the strange thing being that we won the first field battle and lost
the second this year.
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