lets do something other than romans....

[Chuck Russell]

forget roman reenacting, lets do this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YveSHqhOkdo& ... ret%20wars (not sure if the side bars are totally work safe, they change. just put this up as a sorta warning, the video is harmless)

secret wars reenactment

[Robert Vermaat]

OMG! hock:
I loved it.
My biggest fear is that folks look at us the same way...

[Ramesses II]

OMG! hock:
I loved it.
My biggest fear is that folks look at us the same way...

Romans and Greeks charging Batman, Superman and Spiderman? 8)

[Narukami]

Sign me up.

But is it ok if I bring my grandson along--he knows these characters much better than I do. :wink:

Narukami

[Marcus Mummius]

OMG! hock:
I loved it.
My biggest fear is that folks look at us the same way...

LOL, a lot of things sounded very familiar :lol:

[FAVENTIANVS]

You can bet they do :?

[Spurius]

At least our weapons look real, we'd be a laughing stock if we threw invisible laser beams at each other and our costumes are not made of aluminum foil!

[Robert Vermaat]

At least our weapons look real, we'd be a laughing stock if we threw invisible laser beams at each other and our costumes are not made of aluminum foil!

How about throwing invisible pila?

[Virilis]

Pila is in finnish a "joke" :wink: ....[/quote]

[A_Volpe]

heheheh

That was good.

Reminds me of a Indie Documentary called "Uber Goober" (the U with the 2 dots above it) that was looking at Dungeons&Dragons and LARP'ing and how it's gaining popularity as well as getting negative (and ridiculous) attention from Relgious Wackos.

[Jeroen Pelgrom]

last weekend i participated in a fantasy LARP-battle

:oops:

[Virilis]

Jeroen, please! This has been a very hard week already :wink: ...

[Jeroen Pelgrom]

lol,

it was a LARP-battle for the Elf Fantasy Fair - about 200 elves against 70 barbarians (including me). Although the outcome was predetermined (the elves had to win, we should die heroically) we managed to "kill" about 150 of them. It was very entertaining, some elves were very scared by our charge!

Photo's:
www.liesbeth.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=12
and
www.gothicpictures.tk/New_design.htm (select Latest update, Elven Battle)

[Marcus Mummius]

OMG that big black beast :lol:

How do you play such a battle? Do you move in slowmotion or something? Or do you just wack your opponents?

[Jeroen Pelgrom]

The big black beast was our Stone Golem - he made a big impression. the plan was that he should attack first and fight like Sauron in the battle of the last alliance of LoTR-the fellowship of the ring (with the elves being kicked backwards).

how do you fight such a battle: the elves each got 3 (for the arches) and 5 hitpoint (for the swordmen). The barbarians got individual hitpoints (8 to 15). Eachtime you get hit -1 hitpoint. But as i said, the mission of the barbarians was to heroically so when you got a cool hit from an elf, we were expected to die in style. Of the 70 barbarians, almost 40 of them (including me) are members of Sword & Stone, a group which teaches Medieval European art-of-war (sword/ dagger/ pole-arms/ unarmed), based upon historical books.

You don't fight in slowmotion but at full speed. Rules for LARP-fighting: no hits against the head and groin and no stabbing. Untrained people (almost 90% of the elves) tend to wack everything in their sight. More experienced people (the barbarians in this case) try to fight for real, with the rules in their mind.