🚀 go-pugleaf

bloodthorn@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Jennifer Geard) writes:
] Silfren and Dennis were writing about basket hilts, which prompts me to quote
] <mutter grumble> rules again.  This time it's the Society rule on basket 
] hilts (the other hand-armour options follow this section).  Merely as a point
] of information before this matter takes off, you understand: 
]
]  5. Hand and Wrist Armor:
]
]     The outer surfaces of the hand and wrist of both arms (see drawings 
]     page 58) must be covered by one or a combination of the following:
]
]     a. A metal basket hilt with enough bars or plates to prevent a blow 
]	from striking the fingers or the back of the hand.  If a basket 
]	hilt is used, a vambrace or partial gauntlet should cover the 
]	remaining portions of the hand and wrist. 
]     (The [Society] Marshal's Handbook:  1992 Edition, pp. 41-42.)

My vambrace, which I always wear, does cover the wrist. The exposure
I've mentioned happens when the hand is at extreme flexion, so that
the basket hilt has rotated enough to let a sword get between it
and the vambrace. In tourney combat, the set of circumstances that
could lead to this seem very unlikely to me, so I don't feel I need
the demi-gauntlet. In the longer and more chaotic battle scenarios,
I don't need the mobility in the hand, so I opt for more protection.

I've never had a marshal comment adverslely on my vambrace-and-basket-hilt
combo in an armour inspection. I wear the demi-gauntlet in war on the
advice of more experienced fighters and Peers.
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Dennis O'Connor			doconnor@sedona.intel.com