Early in the morning
mind I'm sure it wasn't a sailor that needed "assisting" to bed
no it wasn't
More Derfels less Aragorns the better in my book
Too right. But Aragorn isn't that bad, it's the Xenas and Hawk the Slayers that do me in !
Hey don't knock Tolkien. He did it right and as you know borrowed extensively from early mythology and the norse sagas. It's everybody else since who has tagged on all the stupid over the top magical elements plus motorcycle/bondage gear wardrobe departments. Now I've nothing against motorcycle/bondage gear of course, but it's what post apocolypse people wear, and not early medieval at all.
Back on topic, Broadsword this pseudo historical LARPing sounds like fun. I'm not too interested in the ghost story one or 1920s but the Romans v Barbarian photo looks excellent.
Before we started airsoft I was thinking about dark age or early medieval reenactment but never really got started for two reasons.
1. Couldn't get Anne interested.
2. The reenactor approach - just check out the Vikings website where for example they have a whole po-faced essay "legislating" (their term) against the wrong type of "chainmail" (again, their term). Bearing in mind I spent ages with two pairs of pliers making my own butted, flat section mail, which is of course, hopelessly farby to anyone close enough to tell it's not rivetted.
Anyway, what we need is to pester Old-Un who seems to also have a passing interest, in to starting up another group (he's not wasting too much time already on CiA) for some Darg Age action - how about Wessex v Vikings at the Churchills site? It could be called Comrades in Armour. There, I've done all the hard work already.......
EDIT - here's my farby gear, but the beauty of it is, I can do any side, no need even for re-badging.
We've just closed down our old system - Britannia Rex, which was set in a Bernard Cornwall Age of Arthur type setting, and I am looking for something new to kick off. My current thoughts are about 750 ish during the reign of Offa of Mercia - fighting the Welsh in the years before Egland was forged into one Kingdom. We'd always be happy to have new attendees.
just check out the Vikings website where for example they have a whole po-faced essay "legislating" (their term) against the wrong type of "chainmail" (again, their term)
I just had to have a squizz at this. Random quote:
"RECOMMENDATIONS
[RATIFIED AT A HIGH COUNCIL MEETING- BEESTON 29 JUNE 1997]
SIZE:
Reference to tables 2 & 3 will show that although mail varies between 6.4mm and 15mm in ring diameter, most of the Viking mail falls in the band 7.4mm to 8.7mm. However, the incongruous Väte chain is up to nearly 12mm. and this has now been accepted as the upper limit for the society.
Ideal ratios of link diameter to thickness fall between 9.26 and 4.17 to 1. This means that for 12mm. mail we should accept links no smaller than 1.3mm in diameter. By the same token, links should be no thicker than 2.88mm in diameter. However this limit need not be enforced because as we saw before, rings that become very thick for a given diameter become useless because the internal diameter becomes too small to pass all the adjoining links through.
Links larger than 12mm. and all mail with ring size to thickness ratios greater than approximately 9 to 1 should be banned, being phased out by 2002AD"
I'll bet Lief Eriksson is spinning in his burial chamber. I'd also like to meet the Mail Cops who enforce these stringent regulations.
baz, i think you will struggle to get an airsoft sword and longbow
oh I think you'll find it's not so difficult.
And once I get round to it I'm going to have a go at doing a foam and latex Fairburn Sykes knife 
Broadsword, Offa/Mercia sounds like fun - whereabouts are your games usually held?
Scaley - already have real ones! But Yith's link might be handy because I suppose I'd have to switch to the latex/foam stuff for LARPing.
of course baz, and dont forget your health and safety method statement and appointed h+s officer...... 
oh I think you'll find it's not so difficult.
we used somthing like those in my short lived viking days . comeing from york its hard to aviod vikings 
theres nowt so Permanent as temporary
espesially in the roman bath, and golden fleece pubs on a friday and saterday night che....... i remember it well ( you remember barnums night club? great place)
For refenence, my name is Martin !
We are Nottingham / Leicester based and tent to use sites round the Peak District,though occasionally go further afield. There are a couple of very nice sites - one in Devon and one in Monmouth that have dark age villages and the like, but generally we are Midlands oriented.
espesially in the roman bath, and golden fleece pubs on a friday and saterday night che....... i remember it well
im trying to forget it
theres nowt so Permanent as temporary
as is the rest of York.... however its still there albeit under a new name 
i had never seen a nightclub on 3 floors .... i thought it was amazing
there are two or at least there was as ziggy's (omg what a hole) was also on three floors, mind that now has a lapdancing area instead and is an "adult" club can't comment as I've not been in.
For refenence, my name is Martin !.
What a fantastic name. Never met you but I like you already 
. I'll soon be pressuring you to join my litigious campaign against UK TV sitcom writers of the '90's, who found it amusing to give every geek and dweeb on the box the name "Martin" (hee hee).
BedsnHerts - aka Martin.
So why have I been calling you "Martyn" all this time? Sorry, will spell it right in future.
Martin (Broadsword), definitely interested, will try to catch you at Ariel for a chat at some point.
Now, everyone quick get this thread back on topic before Chomley comes back.
