Pennsic L - Armored Bridge Battle 1 

Have fun! :)

About where are you from? I can point you to your kingdom and their chatelaine (welcome wagon/newcomer officer) can get you set up with your local group. If you don't want to answer, the group lookup tool is here: sca.org/kingdom_lookup.html Once you've found your local group, go to fighter practice (almost every group will have one weekly) and start learning. :)

Not really, mainly because we don't have real morale problems. If your friends are actually getting speared and hacked around you, you're much more likely to panic and run. That almost never happens in the SCA context because everyone knows they're not actually going to die.

Bridge Battles was and still are important battles the and into modern war.Bridges are a choke point for armies. Read some history on it . The last battle in movie Brave Heart really took place at a narrow stone bridge with half of England's army on the other side. The Scots slaughtered them ,any English trying to wade /swim was drowned. Reinforcements was slaughtered trying to cross the narrow bridge.Narrow areas are easy to defend even dead and wounded become a protective barricade.On a bridge many would be tossed over the side to let more be killed. There was little chance to flee as others behind would push front soldiers (often they was the poorest /worst equipped to see what the enemy would do) forward .Regular men of the line even if the wanted to flee was watched over by Sargent's and each other to keep good order. Even after a army was routed those how lived /fled had better had a good explanation why they wasn't dead . Often command leaders would react with executing say every 5th man a traitor s death , something horrible like crucifixion. You would only hope to live or wounded badly a friend would put you out of your misery before the dogs pull out and eat your intestines before you die. I'll stop with saying it was like butchers from hell worked on many hundreds leaving them to die horribly until the camp thieves finished you off.