re: Plastic, and other (fwd)

["David Ritterskamp" <jonnyb70@hotmail.com>]

Poster: "David Ritterskamp" <jonnyb70@hotmail.com>

[Realism, Julien.  How many spare shields do you want to make?  What do 
you do if you run out?  What weapons form would you fight if you ran 
out?  What weapons form would you fight originally, knowing that you 
could destroy a shield with three or four greatsword/axe/mace/polearm 
shots?  Personally I'd probably fight greatsword; enough oomph to 
destroy said shield, short enough not to be too slow.  Assuming that you 
were going to make polearms/axes/maces in such a way that you could only 
swing them in correct, weighted-at-the-end fashion.  We were, weren't 
we?]

Regards,

J. Blackbow
Clan O'Shannon


>Poster: Julien de Montfort <julien@spiaggia.org>
>
>> Well, that's true, but if these individuals are looking for
>> possible avenues to go for shields that "break" when hit,
>
>Just wondering, but what would be the advantange of such?  Did period
>shields degrade over the course of a single instance of combat?
>Otherwise I wouldn't think the "first fight, pause, second fight,
>pause, third fight" sequence of combat we usually do would make this
>idea all that useful in SCA terms, as I would expect the SCAdian
>fighter to get a spare undamaged shield between fights if his shield
>actually started to degrade...
>
>Julien
>
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