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<div>><SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Have we thought about putting an add in the City Paper or Craig's list?</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I actually checked this out. City Paper would cost something, they only give a few lines to groups that don't charge membership fees. I used to post on Craigslist under activities- but I can't say that it drew much of anybody.</SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">From recollection the occasional newspaper article attracts people (if the story isn't biased to how loony we seem). </SPAN></div>
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<div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">-Abel</SPAN></div>
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Subject: Re: [Ponte Alto] Recruitment and the Barony<br>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">It is awesome the recruitment is up.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I suppose something I missed is how can we help the Demo Deputy?</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Well other then attending Demo's.</SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I would like to see us doing something then other Boy Scouts, Library’s and School's. While these check the block for our status as an educational organization they do not yield peoples so much. </SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Have we thought about putting an add in the City Paper or Craig's list?</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">However we need more to swell the ranks. I would like to see our baronial army as a sea of gold and black. </SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">By army I count rapier, heavy and our logistics support.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I am not sure what our baronial army structure is but I would image it is something like this----</SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Coronets</SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Warlords (I guess we have a heavy and light and not one overall commander)</SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Heavy, Rapier, Archery, Siege and Logistics Commanders </SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">NCO's</SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Troops</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I would also be happy to fight on the Rapier field, since I am not totally unskilled with a rapier blade. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I was in Ansteorra, Don Dore’ led an effort in our Barony to make the largest shields allowed by the rules to fight behind for the heavy forces that crossed over to rapier. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think this worked pretty good for us at Gulf it could for Ponte Alto at Pennsic also. If there ins't a heavy warpoint going on I would happily fight my Crowns foes on the Rapier field.</FONT></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">As a knight and royalist I see the Coronet's raising our baronial forces for the Crown to swell the ranks of their army. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While they might not be directly involved in the process the commanders do this for them.</SPAN></div>
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