Armoured Combat Draft:Change Log

We will aim to keep the last 12 months of changes in the published PDF.

1. Classes of participant and combat

• Updated minimum ages for participants - war is an armoured combat activity. No person under the age of 16 can authorise for armoured combat according to Society rule changes in July 2020.
• Updated heavy to armoured combat in its relevant contexts throughout.
• Some simplification of language

2. Combat authorisation requirements

• Updated heavy to armoured combat in its relevant contexts throughout.

2.1 General

• Updated 2.1.1 to make this more specific to armoured combat and refined definition of armoured combat
• Updated 2.1.2 to make it clear that they need to demonstrate familiarity and ability to apply all of the things. And that the requirement to demonstrate ability means there must be a practical component to all authorisation tests.
• Updated 2.1.5 to reword for clarity, and to include Siege Marshals being able to do Siege authorisations
• Added 2.1.6 to remind people that they need to send in their own signed form.
• 2.1.7 reminds Senior Marshals that they must have their card back from Lists before they can perform authorisations - they can't do it from their own paperwork, they must be a valid senior marshal in the system on the date they perform someone else's authorisation.
• 2.1.9 The Kingdom Lists Officer doesn't need to provide the Earl Marshal with a list of current authorisations as the database is accessible to them.

2.2 Age restrictions

• Updated 2.2.1.b to include participants in the age restriction.
• Removed 2.2.1.c - Persons between the ages of 14 and 16 may be authorised as plumed auxiliaries. Banner bearing is part of armoured combat according to Society Rules - 14-16 as plumed auxiliaries is no longer allowed by Society rules.
• Removed 2.2.1.d - No person below the age of 14 may be authorised for any form of SCA combat-related activity. Not relevant for this rule set
• Updated rule 2.2.1.e (now c) for under 14s not being allowed to train/swing an armoured combat weapon to be specific for this rule set.

2.3 Minor authorisation

• Updated 2.3.1 to 16 years from 14 years
• Updated 2.3.1.a to make it clear that the parent/guardian needs to talk to the Senior Marshal doing the authorisation.
• Updated 2.3.1.b to add the Kingdom Armoured Combat Marshal
• Updated 2.3.2 to be specific to this rule book.

3. Rules of the Lists

• Changes were made at Society level to the Rules of the List in Corpora in March 2021 - for gender neutral terms, to remove the right of the Sovereign to waive additional Kingdom standards (thanks to Lochac), and to be more consistent with terminology.

4. Conventions of combat

• Updated references to the Earl Marshal to include reference to their deputy, the Kingdom Armoured Combat Marshal
• Updated throughout to make more specific to armoured combat.
• Simplified language and changed to refer to you as the audience throughout
• Updated Marshal-in-Charge of the field to responsible marshal throughout
• 4.5.6. a and b - separated the information about nocking bows etc into two sub rules.
• 4.6.4 split into three rules.

5. The use of weapons and shields

• Updated throughout to refer to you as the audience and simplify language.
• 5.1.1 - added General heading to fix rules numbering collision.
• Added 5.1.1.5 - "Archers may have a backup weapon on them, but may not draw it until their bow/crossbow has been safely disposed of (taken off the field, discarded in a low traffic area, handed to another combatant, etc). Upon drawing a backup weapon to enter combat, hands must be appropriately armoured." This had been previously removed in the 2009 rules when we didn't allow non-plumed archers.
• Added 5.1.3 - Missile and Thrown Weapons - moved use of missile weapons rules out of Missile weapons standards section as these are about use not construction.
• 5.1.3.7 - clarified that bows and non-rigid quivers need to be inspected if they are struck by anything, not just missile fire, to allow for non-plumed archers who may be struck.
• Added 5.1.3.8 - "Archers may carry and use thrown weapons without need to discard their bow/crossbow or change hand armour". This had been previously removed in the 2009 rules when we didn't allow non-plumed archers.

6. Target areas and acknowledgement of blows

• Simplified language and updated to refer to you as the audience throughout
• Updated heavy combatant to armoured combatant

• 6.3.3 and 4 - appeared to have been misformatted as sub rules, now reformatted