After reviewing the feedback on dying defensively and talking with my counterparts in the East and AEthelmearc I am updating our rule on dying defensively. See below for the change, this is effective immediately. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Current Rule: Dead combatants may neither hand weapons nor shout advice …
My Deputy for Armored Combat, Sir Draenge, and I have solicited and reviewed feedback on dying defensively and have a proposal for a revision that better reflects the actual practice and is hopefully a safe procedure. Please review and let us know your thoughts. Current Rule: 1. Dead combatants should die defensively by hiding under …
We’ve had a large increase in archers in the past few months, this showed with the great turn out of combat archers at Northern Oaken War Maneuvers this past weekend. At NOWM there were some questions about who combat archers are engaged with, what their target area is, and how hard a projectile needs to …
The Pennsic rules this year allow for authorizations and re-authorizations to happen at Pennsic if the participant’s kingdom is good with it. For the Midrealm, we will allow armored and rapier authorizations and re-authorizations to happen with a few caveats. For armored authorizations/re-authorizations one of the marshals running the authorization must be either myself or …
We are in a renewal phase for Combat Archery and Siege. Our marshals for those activities are concentrated in a few small areas, which makes growing the activity and eventually training new marshals hard. Through the end of September 2023 I am allowing Combat Archery and Siege authorizations to happen with one CA/Siege Marshal and …
In light of the smoke issues from the Canadian wildfires, I’ve gotten some questions about when we should cancel outdoor activities due to air quality issues. I’ve talked to some folks with air quality experience. We are looking at fine particulate matter in the air ( PM2.5) which is measured in the Air Quality Index …
Next Wednesday (May 10th) at 7:00pm EST I’ll be hosting a Marshal Town Hall. It’s open to all Midrealm marshals. Come ask questions, give suggestions, or share feedback. Here is the link to the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86116581781?pwd=OU9KYjJNdnF6VDBXVDFWYjNYV2tZZz09
This week we received a question about whether a particular crossbow was legal. The bow was using paracord and a handle to help span the bow. It was a really clever setup, checking the Midrealm rules it fell into a bit of a grey area. I checked the Pennsic rules and the crossbow would not …
Last call! I’ve updated the file for folks without a waiver. I’ll be having anyone without a waiver marked as inactive on 1/31. List of folks without waivers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12rpUOmPxeyRLCNIN7dBh-X7E4XHuu5er/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108299567393620750819&rtpof=true&sd=true If you want to confirm that you are in the database you can look that up at: https://midrealm.org/member-authorizations/ The waivers can be found at: https://www.sca.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/adltwaiv.pdf Waivers …
I am very pleased to announce that the latest edition of the Armored Combat Handbook for the Middle Kingdom has been released. The handbook can be found at the link below. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lvDNwI7Txew752pCavLcD50Y0aqdiT-F/view?usp=sharing Major changes include:The authorization requirement for marshals may be waived for individuals that were at one time an authorized combatant (with approval by …
