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| | | (...) Nope, I haven't made a Pennsic yet... hopefully this year - it depends on how the holiday time works out. I was at Clinton this year, which is the biggest war I've been too - ~300 heavies on the field, I think. I think the reason the kettle (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: New helmet and Era. —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) Then you're in for a real treat, if you can ever make it to Pennsic! A very conservative estimate puts the main field battle at about 2000 participants--very possibly upward of 3500 some years. It's probably the epitome of geekness, but (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: New helmet and Era. —James Brown
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| | | | (...) Yup! It's a rush like no other. How long have you/did you fight? (...) That's a lot of steel. And just in helmets - when you consider that most of the heavies out there also have steel knees, well... And I'm not even going to go into how many (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: New helmet and Era. —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) I've been fighting on-and-off since 92, and I've been to 5 Pennsics in that time. In small melees I opt for greatsword (more like mediocre or slightly- above-average-sword), but in mass combat I fall back on sword & board. I would say of my (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: New helmet and Era. —James Brown
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| | | | (...) Only for about a year, but I haven't really embarrased myself (since the first war - ouch!). We've got a fairly solid local core of fighters, a couple of whom are *really* good, and (until I screwed up my knee) I was attending a weekly (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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