[MR] yeoman archery

[Gorm of Berra]

Well, that's one of the things that makes Yeoman archery so...challenging...

Basically, for your sword hand, it's easy, have a sword with basket hilt, 
boom, you're set.

For the offhand, You either need to wear a full gauntlet all the time 
(which can be done if you're a longbowman, so long as you would hold the 
bow and the shield in the same hand), or somehow have the ability to have a 
center grip baskthilt shield or something.

Alternatively, authorize two sword, and carry two backup swords :)

Gorm

At 07:28 PM 12/1/2003 -0500, BARY SEARS wrote:
>A question - it is my desire, as a yeoman archer, to start off as an 
>archer and only turn fighter when I have to, so how do I properly protect 
>my bow hand when I must use a shield?  From a period perspective I gather 
>that archers, if they had a shield at all, had a small buckler (16" or 
>so)/  I am assuming a center bar, which would get really messy with a hand 
>cage.  SO, I'll need full hand protection.  Do I beg the oncoming fighter 
>wait a minute while I get my hand in the glove?  Don't use a shield at all 
>(even more authentic and deadly to me!)?  Thoughts, please.
>
>Barre
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Farslayer
>   To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
>   Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:06 PM
>   Subject: Re: [MR] yeoman archery
>
>
>   My work around for this had been a double sided Mantle and a Torse. I 
> had one side of the mantle with diamonds and the other blank. I wore all 
> my armor and just flipped the mantle to suit how I was fighting at the 
> time. I could switch back and forth between weapon forms when I desired 
> by walking to the back of the field and flipping the mantle, picking up 
> my weapons and returning to the fight. This worked really well during 
> resurrection battles since I could fight the entire battle and save my 
> arrows until when most needed.
>   The only draw back is that I could not carry back up weapons but since 
> you must discard the bow in a safe manner anyway it worked for me.
>
>
>   Giovanni
>
>
>   so do they have them at pennsic? are my dreams of being just that being
>   dashed to peices or is there somthing that we could do if there was enough
>   interest?
>   I mean other kingdoms have heavy archers right?
>
>
>
>
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