Full blown combat or display only?

[Salvianus]

Ah, well met and my thanks! ita vero balatro sum

I haven't done many multi-period events and I particularly enjoy seeing the variety of approaches: I very much liked the sabre practice of the BlueJackets (a bit like boken kata) and the larger scale formations of the Napoleonics and ACW (with quite a bit of Moonlighting raising the numbers).