The Non-Metal Weapons Experiment will now include limited Melee engagements, following these specifications: 1)There may be no more than ten combatants TOTAL (5v5, 6v4, etc). 2)All combatants must be aware that experimental weapons will be used, and agree to their use. 3)NMW users are considered to be “at fault” for any injuries that occur. Injuries […]
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Rapier Marshals – *DEADLINE APPROACHING* Marshals, you have 2 opportunities remaining to attend a class for the continuing education requirements if you have not done so already. One is this coming weekend at Midlands Academy of Defense, taught by Warder Roland. The other is a Zoom option on September 7th at 8pm Eastern. You MUST
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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
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Forrester Uthan Laoch has long served as Deputy Earl Marshal for Thrown Weapons. He’s had a good tenure – overseeing a new edition of the handbook and several experiments. I’ve been really glad to work with him, he cares deeply about the SCA and Thrown Weapons. So, we need to find his successor. If you
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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
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REMINDER: All Group and Baronial rapier marshals, your report for Q3 is due by midnight TOMORROW, August 1st. https://tinyurl.com/midrealmmarshalreport YIS, Maestra Mirabai DKEM Fencing, Midrealm
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Master Dirk has put together a new edition of the Siege Handbook. This is a supplement to the Armored Combat Marshal Handbook. It can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eBdZlPMQuVt-ydD1nO2qtO5lfjShSGEF/view?usp=sharing
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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
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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
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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
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