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For all at this ART OF WAR III (April 26th thru the 29th) Yes that is right 4 days of learning and fighting !

What you will experience in those four days.

* No problems setting up a camp cabins and beds for all!
* No problems cooking all meals are provided for your pleasure!
* Lots of good fighting with instructor to help you refine you fighting skills.
* Lots of fun classes to help you understand wars and what to do and when!
* Lots of fun with your shield brothers and sisters fighting.
* Lots of fun with your shield brothers and sisters in the other games and contest.

Just bring yourself, a tankered for drink, amour and bedding, food and shelter provided.

Team building will be a bigger part of this year's activities there will be a advantage in doing well in the team building competitions, 1st the war unit that scores highest each day will eat 1st the next day, 2nd the war unit that scores highest overall will be presented with a unit banner by me at An Tir west war. Some of the competitions we have talked about are wrestling, arm wrestling, cards, chess, arming each other in a timely manner, and looking like and acting like a unit and problem solving. With this in mind the 1st team building activity will start now the war unit that can muster and preregistration and get to the event the most troops will be 1st for meals the 1st day.

Earl Edward Ean Anderson

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Message from Sir Daniel about Art of War I as we prepped for II

I get asked a lot about what the Art of War (AoW) event is. I thought I'd share my thoughts here.

If you like SCA war fighting, then this may be the funnest event you've ever been to. After 25 years in the SCA, other than the event I got Knighted at, AoW is the most fun I've ever had at an event. Period.

If you are ambivalent to war fighting, or maybe just never understood what the big deal about it is, then this event may just change your SCA fighting career. Basically, it's an event where many An Tir experts on SCA War Combat share their knowledge for 4 days straight. It's similar to Sport of Kings, but there are some very stark differences between AoW and any other SCA event you may have attended.

    For the 4 days, you are in the ARMY. You sleep together, wake up together, eat together, then attend classes and fight together EVERY day. It's all the fun part of being in the army without the bad stuff (no drill sergeants-unless you bring one)

    No Camp to set up or take down. Because you are there for ONE thing and one thing only, War fighting. You just bring your sleeping bag, your armour, and some clothes, that's it. No tent to put up or take down, your food is all prepared for you, no dishes to wash etc. You sleep, eat, drill, and fight, for 4 days straight.

Many folks there attend as a UNIT. Half the people there are flying solo, but about half are there as a fighting group. If you aren't already in a war unit, you will likely be assigned one (sometimes different ones every day).

Don't' feel like you have to be in a unit to attend! As a matter of fact, there are some fighting households that began (Black Company, Iron Ring) during the first AoW!

As I said, this is different than any other SCA event you may have been to.

So, here is a sample day of what you would typically expect.

    7:00 - 8:00 Everyone get's up- Breakfast is served
    8:00 -12:00 Breakfast ends, first round of classes start for the day. (possible multi-track, examples; small unit tactics, moving as a large unit, how to be a spear god, etc.)
    12:00 Lunch is served till 1:00
    1:00 Armour up.
    1:30 -3:30 Armoured classes start(usually lots of fighting here)
    3:30 - 5:00 Practical application of classes start (we test the theories of the days classes by fighting scenarios usually)
    5:00 Armour off and showers (Yes there are hot showers on site)
    6:00 Evening panel discussions, and presentations on historical Wars, Campaigns or Generals. Some Historical, some SCA.
    8:00 Return to bunks or evening quiet time.
    9:00 Go to bed, cause your butt gets woken up at 7:00 am to start the party over again!

The Website is at: www.SCA-ArtOfWar.org

Please don't hesitate to ask myself, Sir Hathawulf, Sir Brand or any other of the White Lions about this event.
Save the weekend.

Regina Vulte!

In Service,
Sir Daniel
KEM An Tir and War Junkie
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