AT-ATs at war at A-T War
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jamesqThis will be somewhat shorter then I originally intended due to my netbook spontaneously rebooting just now.
With few exceptions, everyone seemed to enjoy AT war. I know I did. strangely, I didn't do much.
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garething and I left rather early for the war on Friday morning (we were officially on the road at 6:30 pm) We got to site just a little before 4 pm and set up at the south end of the Avacal encampment. We were distant from the biffies.
Saturday was when they tried to cram everything in. For a ~400 person event, they really need to consider making it a day longer.
Anyway, I didn't do much. Mostly, I just acted as dog's body at the archery range - I inspected equipment, ran the line, helped find lost arrows. Basically, we showed Tir Righ how you run archery the Avacal way. If last year was any indication (and I don't know for certain, I just have the one data point), they need it.
Sadly, I managed to slice my hand on some barbed wire. Not a particularly deep cut, but still annoying since I had to fix it properly (clean it out, antiseptic, dressings, etc) due to the fact that it was barbed wire in a horse-shit-filled field. Thankfully I'm still in the window for my last tetanus shot.
We won the archery war point, taking two out of three of the components. The populous shoot, Tir Righ took. Doesn't matter how good Avacal's archers are - if you can't get people out, they can't score. We had some serious throughput problems that will be addressed in future tournaments.
Avacal took the team shoot, which is no surprise since we brought the cream of Montengarde archery and Tir Righ had to scramble to assemble a matching amount of teams. Still, it could have been a lot closer. I still think we'd have won this component though - we seem to train speed shooting more in Avacal then in the other regions I've been in.
Avacal also took the combat archery scenarios. However, there were only three Tir Righ combat archers participating (all three were hott too - Mmmm fighter chicks) and they were up against nine Avacal combat archers. Even restricitng the scenarios to three-on-three was still one sided because we could swap in fresh people. I'd feel bad about this, except Tir Righ had (by some estimates) twice as many heavy fighters for the armoured scenarios and deliberately made half the scenarios non-archery.
In the evening there was court. a bunch of Tir Righ people got a bunch of Tir Righ awards from assorted Tir Righ royals. Fenric got some kudos for donating leg armour to a Drachenwald shire in SouthAmerica Africa. Good on ya Fenny! A lot of t-shirts, chocolates and freezies were thrown into the audience. Truly, An Tir's largess cannot be beat.
I went for a nap after court and discovered that tents are great for listening in on nearby gossip without being noticed. The good news is sometimes you 're a fly on the wall. The bad news is sometimes they're talking about you. Thankfully, I had my iPod and its anti-social field.
I woke up around ten and went to the main party to socialize and drink. Einar's ice tea and an empty stomach made the drinking part easy. The mass of friendly folk made the socializing easy too, even though my usual native shyness kept me from meeting new people. Of course, there were plenty of people there that I knew, so I wasn't bored at all.
I went to bed late (or very early, depending on what side of the night you're observing it from). Here's the weird thing though - I was loaded when I went to bed, hadn't really eaten much the day before, was inadequately hydrated, and only had four hours sleep. I was not hung over at all. It was suggested that SA's hangover cure was responsible. I feel that more data is required.
G and I packed camp and managed to up load a lot of our stuff tocat_cetera and minyata (thanks for that). We arrived in Vancouver last night and after some wonderful Singaporean (at Kam's Place on Davies) we went our separate ways. G went to bed, I went out for some unspecified debauchery.
AT War was good and I recommend it. Sadly, it's too far unless you take a day off like we did.
With few exceptions, everyone seemed to enjoy AT war. I know I did. strangely, I didn't do much.
garething and I left rather early for the war on Friday morning (we were officially on the road at 6:30 pm) We got to site just a little before 4 pm and set up at the south end of the Avacal encampment. We were distant from the biffies.Saturday was when they tried to cram everything in. For a ~400 person event, they really need to consider making it a day longer.
Anyway, I didn't do much. Mostly, I just acted as dog's body at the archery range - I inspected equipment, ran the line, helped find lost arrows. Basically, we showed Tir Righ how you run archery the Avacal way. If last year was any indication (and I don't know for certain, I just have the one data point), they need it.
Sadly, I managed to slice my hand on some barbed wire. Not a particularly deep cut, but still annoying since I had to fix it properly (clean it out, antiseptic, dressings, etc) due to the fact that it was barbed wire in a horse-shit-filled field. Thankfully I'm still in the window for my last tetanus shot.
We won the archery war point, taking two out of three of the components. The populous shoot, Tir Righ took. Doesn't matter how good Avacal's archers are - if you can't get people out, they can't score. We had some serious throughput problems that will be addressed in future tournaments.
Avacal took the team shoot, which is no surprise since we brought the cream of Montengarde archery and Tir Righ had to scramble to assemble a matching amount of teams. Still, it could have been a lot closer. I still think we'd have won this component though - we seem to train speed shooting more in Avacal then in the other regions I've been in.
Avacal also took the combat archery scenarios. However, there were only three Tir Righ combat archers participating (all three were hott too - Mmmm fighter chicks) and they were up against nine Avacal combat archers. Even restricitng the scenarios to three-on-three was still one sided because we could swap in fresh people. I'd feel bad about this, except Tir Righ had (by some estimates) twice as many heavy fighters for the armoured scenarios and deliberately made half the scenarios non-archery.
In the evening there was court. a bunch of Tir Righ people got a bunch of Tir Righ awards from assorted Tir Righ royals. Fenric got some kudos for donating leg armour to a Drachenwald shire in South
I went for a nap after court and discovered that tents are great for listening in on nearby gossip without being noticed. The good news is sometimes you 're a fly on the wall. The bad news is sometimes they're talking about you. Thankfully, I had my iPod and its anti-social field.
I woke up around ten and went to the main party to socialize and drink. Einar's ice tea and an empty stomach made the drinking part easy. The mass of friendly folk made the socializing easy too, even though my usual native shyness kept me from meeting new people. Of course, there were plenty of people there that I knew, so I wasn't bored at all.
I went to bed late (or very early, depending on what side of the night you're observing it from). Here's the weird thing though - I was loaded when I went to bed, hadn't really eaten much the day before, was inadequately hydrated, and only had four hours sleep. I was not hung over at all. It was suggested that SA's hangover cure was responsible. I feel that more data is required.
G and I packed camp and managed to up load a lot of our stuff to
cat_cetera and minyata (thanks for that). We arrived in Vancouver last night and after some wonderful Singaporean (at Kam's Place on Davies) we went our separate ways. G went to bed, I went out for some unspecified debauchery.AT War was good and I recommend it. Sadly, it's too far unless you take a day off like we did.
