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Take a look. Discuss here. Excuse the formatting. I used open office to convert it to html, and it did not want to let me pretty it up at all. I tried to apply my standard stylesheets to it, to no avail - stupid OO applied styles to every element individually, which overrides the stylesheet.

So there hasnt been any activity on this thread in quite a long time. Is there anything new happening with this rule set or has it sort of just hit the wall and stopped further developement?

The current KRM intimated at a meeting at 12th night that there was some question as to if the experiment was over or not and wether this was actually a valid style or not according to the BOD etcetera.

Can anyone shed light on this?

Thanks
Utgar

I'll ask Avacal's principality C&T marshal at tomorrow's event, and will report his response here for you.

Callen (KC&T Marshal, An Tir) and I (PC&T Marshal, Tir Righ) have submitted an updated draft to the Society Marshal - status is Pending.

Still pending - as an update.

YIS
Callen Drakkar
K C & T M

And still pending...


There is a fairly aggressive experiment attached to the new rules and that is what we are waiting on.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, concerns or thoughts on Cut and Thrust.

YIS,

Callen Drakkar
Kingdom Cut and Thrust Marshal
A Deputy to the Kingdom Rapier Marshal

Report form Tir Righ Avacal War:

Again I had the pleasure to travel into the depths of Ramsguard to attend the Tir Righ and Avacal War. This year, it was a full event!
I will skip through the parts about seeing old friends from across mountains and spending time with people that live close by but I only see every six months. I will omit the part about some great Rapier fighting in the morning and observed some truly heroic behaviour on the Armoured field.

I want to talk about Cut and Thrust.

Oberst Luther Magnus sponsored an experiment for us to participate in on the war field. It began with some warm up. A bear pit just to get everyone comfortable. Once things were moving at a good pace I added combatants to the eric. It became a two vs. two bear-pit, then a four vs. four. We let that go on for about 10 to 15 minutes, until people were panting a little. The combatants had some water and discussed what had happened so far. Everyone was happy with the pace and level of contact going on.

We moved into six vs. six field battles for the next while. It looked like a lot of fun. There were no complaints from the combatants, and the Kingdom Rapier Marshal was both entertained and impressed with what he saw on the field.

In the grand scheme of melee within the SCA 12 people on a battle field isn't considered a war, but as a skirmish, it seemed to be a lot of fun. It was a successful experiment.

There were no issues to report in regards to weapon and armour issues, or injuries.

Moving forward I will be waiting to get direction from the KRM, Oberst Luther Magnus, on our next opportunity to perform the experiment again.

In closing I would like to make a couple points:
• There will be a new rule set for Cut and Thrust in the near future. The document has been prepared and is awaiting a few technical reviews from far up the Marshallate chain. This new rule set contains the experiment for melee combat and a list of recommended blades to be granted experimental status.
• Cut and Thrust melee is only an Experiment, and for the time being can only be performed under the guidance form the Kingdom Cut and Thrust Marshal.

If you have any thoughts about what you have read please feel free to contact me:

Yours in Service,

Callen Drakkar
Captain, Tir Righ Company of Defence,
Kingdom Cut and Thrust Marshal,
Deputy Seneschal, Lions Gate,
Hafoc
CallenDrakkar(at)Gmail.com

Soooo.....

Congratulations on a successful "skirmish"

Does this mean we are officially back into a state of C&T being an experiment and no longer an official style again????

1: If this is the case how exactly do "We" in areas that has no existing program nor experimental status get involved? 2: Does this mean that all of the people that were C&T marshals in the experiment are still C&T marshals?
2.1 If this is the case how do we get this officially stated somewhere other than this wonderful albeit not official web site and get our experiment running again south of the border???

Thanks,
Utgar

Greetings Utgar,

The "skirmish" has no bearing on the current rules we are fighting under. It was just the first step of many in the process of getting melee into Cut and Thrust.

Cut and Thrust IS an official combat form both in the SCA and our Great Kingdom.

The best way of getting Cut and Thrust going in your local area is to contact your Regional Cut and Thrust Marshal and see about setting up a workshop or taking some time at the next (couple) events you will both be at for some training.

What region are you in? I will send you the contact information for your Regional Marshal.

Please don't hesitate to contact me directly if you have any further questions.

YIS
Callen

Hi callen,
Im in the Central region, Aquaterra. I look forward to heariong back on this.

Utgar