The Weekly Warfare   Musings martial from across the SCA

I’m realizing a hurdle to writing up these post-mortis is the high standards to which I hold myself.  At WoW I DFB’d commanders, ran lines, and held off five fighters at a time, but so what?  I’m a white scarf, that’s my job (this is why white scarves don’t tend to get shark’s teeth).  If I talk about the things that actually stand out to me, it comes out as a bitch fest because only the negatives are anomalous.  But other people did cool shit, so let’s talk about that.  First, though, the general layout of the day:

Ben was RMiC.  We started with woods battles, but not in the usual woods, which meant actual novelty.  I think he pretty much used the woods I did when I was RMiC, so someone was paying attention back then.  Two flags, hard to see from each other, which made backfield C&C important.  There was a “chaos” team that was alternately trying to be balancing and disruptive.

That was followed by the last rounds of the Rising Star tourney and the champs fights.

We then had three field battles to finish the day.

The highlight of the day for me was in the first of those field battles.  Letia, Jaume, and I were on the right flank, along with three guys from Stierbach who’ve been auth’d about a year, across from most of the heavy hitters on the enemy team.  “We’re going to run over there and kill them all,” I said.  The Stierbs seemed doubtful as to the likelihood of success of that plan, but I pointed out that there was nobody else who was going to do it, so at “Lay on” we ran over and put the enemy flank guard back on the edge of the field.  I was falling back engaged with Dom and Alessandro, lost my right arm to Dom taking him out, then turned to fend off Alessandro.  As I did I saw that one of the Stiers, realizing he had a four-on-two, turned, saw the enemy line unprotected, and ran all the way back across the field to DFB enemies.  We didn’t win, but it wasn’t for lack of those Stiers outperforming expectations.