[MR] heavy archers

[gormofberra at direcway.com]

Depends on your definitions...

If you mean "How many folks are authorized in Combat Archery", then a quick look at the mol stats indicate that there were 182 authorized combat archers in Atlantia as of the most recent calculation.
(700 Heavies, 438 rapier fighters for comparison purposes).

If you mean "How many combat archers appear on the Heavy Melee field, regardless of their armor" then there's probably about...oh...40 of us in the Kingdom (roughly) are active CA's.  The rest are folks who picked up the authorization at some point but don't appear on the field often, if at all (for whatever reason).

If you mean "How many combat archers are there who wear full armor, and can swing a stick as a defensive weapon if appropriate (and allowed by the scenario)" probably 10-15, maybe a few more.  Those would be the folks who not only have CA authorization, but one or more Heavy Weapons forms as well.  Keep in mind that in Atlantia, the standard rules in place make it virtually impossible for an archer to draw a backup weapon in live combat.  Also remember that the kill standard is still touch kill regardless of armor worn for archers.

If you mean "How many combat archers are there who wear full armor, and expect to get hit to be killed, and expect to defend themselves with a backup weapon", then none, as it is against Atlantian rules.  There has been an experiment in Yeoman archery, which would do this as an optional addition to the standard CA, but it hasn't taken off yet, and is still very much experimental.

----- Original Message -----
From: matthew howard <m.c.howard at verizon.net>
Date: Friday, November 28, 2003 9:51 am
Subject: [MR] heavy archers

> How many heavy archers are there out there?