[MR] yeoman archery

[Gorm of Berra]

Your hopes shouldn't be completely dashed, efforts are being made towards 
that possibility here in Atlantia, although they are progressing deliberately.

As Baron Sir Otto has recently posted, they have had Heavy, as well as 
Light, archers in the last several (2 or 3 at least) Pennsics.  Heavy 
archers were allowed to draw and use backup weapons, and demand a full 
contact kill.

In the typical Pennsic setup, Atlantian Archers would be either Medium or 
Light archers, as we do not have experience in taking full shot 
kills.  However, those archers who were willing and able to armor up 
completely have been operating under a royal dispensation to act as a Heavy 
archer at Pennsic.

I, myself, did, although it didn't make a difference (either never got 
engaged, or got killed by opposing arrow fire...damn arche...oh, wait).

Given that by next Pennsic, Atlantian archers will be required to armor up 
to full standards (save the archer gauntlets on the hands), I would not be 
surprised if there were more folks wishing to take advantage of that 
dispensation next year, if the Crowns will make it.

In addition, there is an ongoing experiement at those melee events which 
allow it to perform Yeoman archery.  As it is an experiment, it is heavily 
regulated, and I would discourage a new combat archer from worrying about 
it until they have more experience (unless he/she already had extensive 
Heavy weapons experience at least).

If you are interested, there is a Yahoo Group, called Atlantian-Yeoman, 
where we discuss the experiment in more detail.  I would encourage you (or 
anyone interested) to come on over and check it out.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Atlantian-Yeomen/ (the list has been somewhat 
quiet of late as we're in the winter not-so-many-melee's season).

In Service,

Gorm of Berra


At 04:08 PM 11/28/2003 -0500, matthew howard wrote:

>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?