Belegarth

by **gosta** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:59 am

Rasheab wrote:That's kinda cool. But did Hussars really use leopard print?

It is used in quite a few of the recreations I found on Google.

by **Sir Killian** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:29 am

gosta wrote:Hussar armor

looks like a kislev winged lancer to me... but fun

by **flyinggobbo** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:11 am

The kislev winged lancers are based off of the hussars.
I like the armour and the wings are cool looking but look to flashy for my tastes. I love the brass work though.

by **gosta** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:19 pm

by **Sir Roland** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:32 pm

Now for 10,000 points what country are the Hussars from?

by **Aslaug** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:37 am

Demox wrote:Now for 10,000 points what country are the Hussars from?

Hungary?

by **Rasheab** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:09 am

... not a country with leopards?

Well, would you look at that.

At least Polish/Lithuanian ones apparently used it. I wonder where they got them?

by **Sir Roland** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:28 am

Rasheab wrote:At least Polish/Lithuanian ones apparently used it. I wonder where they got them?

DING DING DING

Once one of the most feared calvaries in all of Europe the Polish Hussar were a scary sight to behold upon a battlefield

Sorry, worthless trivia of polak pride

by **Ilariia Bulochnika** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:14 am

More than likely traded with Africa & such.

YAY POLLACKS!

by **Sir_Mel** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:15 am

Demox, stop pretending to be smart.

And everyone knows that Leopards are naturally from Poland. They got scared away by the Germans and now reside elsewhere.

by **Forkbeard** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:25 am

There are very large leopards in the Russian forests. I'd imagine they used to range all over eastern Europe.
FB

by **Derian** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:43 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leopa ... bution.gif

Doesn't look like it'd be too hard to come across one.

by **Sir Roland** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:40 pm

Melannen wrote:Demox, stop pretending to be smart.

It doesnt happen very often where I get to feel intelligent, gotta milk it when I can lol

by **Big King Jimmy** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:58 am

Shrike wrote:

:: sigh :: That zombie larp is coming WAY too soon. Must... have.... power..... armor....

by **Shrike** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:24 am

Big Jimmy wrote::: sigh :: That zombie larp is coming WAY too soon. Must... have.... power..... armor....

Which Chapter? ...if you decide on a 40k design

by **Sir_Mel** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:16 pm

Black Templar for sure.

by **Shrike** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:07 am

Melannen wrote:Black Templar for sure.

The Black Templar are good....I myself would try to make something along the lines of the Crimson Fists

for those of you that are unfamiliar.... http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Crimson_Fists

by **Dabbanoth** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:45 am

Melannen wrote:Demox, stop pretending to be smart.

by **Sir Roland** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:18 am

uhm....ok....jerk :fingers:

by **Big King Jimmy** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:08 am

I would go blood angels, it's what I've started painting my army.

Or salamanders, and shave my head and wear black face.

by **Teej** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:49 am

I bet for every one of those nice suits, there is a hundred noobs with cardboard boxes and nerf guns.

I bet that crap would kill someone in FL; though by the looks of the terrain he probably does not have it much better heat-wise.

by **tac the fierce** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:55 pm

Dude, if cardboard and other nooby crap like that was armour, half of the street people in LA larp!

P.S.-dude, the pictures are awesome...

by **Shrike** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:54 pm

POW!! Right in the kisser

If only he didn't have the quarter-staff.......

* the one in the middle.... * him in his stupid face...preferably with fire

by **Rasheab** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:18 am

Seriously. What is that in the middle of the picture?

by **Shrike** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:41 pm

Rasheab wrote:Seriously. What is that in the middle of the picture?

Not a clue, but I'm hoping those two next to him are moments from executing him.

by **ladybug** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:05 pm

That is some serious garb.

by **Relg** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:05 pm

Space Marines FTW!

by **Oisin** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:30 pm

Actually, Aslaug's right about the Hussars . . . the first unit of them was formed in Hungary as a response to the Ottoman invasion of the southern half of that country.

The winged Hussars that y'all have posted pictures of are Polish/Lithuanian, though.

by **flyinggobbo** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:09 pm

does any body have any pics of Finnish calvery? Now those were some scary dudes. Hakkkaa Palle!!!!!!!

Sorry for the off topic just to be relivent:

...oops big pic. :roll:

by **Kyrian** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:13 pm

by **Aslaug** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:03 pm

by **Solusar** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:20 pm

Wanted to remind everyone of this guy.

by **tac the fierce** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:14 pm

this is my friend tancred at his house. Im his squire.

by **Arrakis** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:26 am

Your image isn't loading and when I tried to go to the image, it told me to log in to Yahoo!. Try Photobucket.

by **tac the fierce** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:09 pm

Arrakis wrote:Your image isn't loading and when I tried to go to the image, it told me to log in to Yahoo!. Try Photobucket.

woops, okay! :roll:

here,

that one should work.

EDIT:: ugh. i give up. i suppose this one might work if that one doesnt:

by **Claymore** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:22 pm

I assume that's the pic?

by **Oisin** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:12 pm

Claymore wrote:

I assume that's the pic?

Enh . . . he's not bad, quite good by Bel standards I suppose, but even from a low-res pic, I've seen much better. Boots, maille, weapons, belt and gloves all look wrong, and for no apparent reason (such as, for example, concessions necessary to make the kit SCA legal, which it clearly isn't intended to be).

I hope that's a Bel kit and not a reenactment/LH kit?

by **Rasheab** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:37 am

There does seem to be something off about it, through I do like the getup. (Need more crusaders. Though trying to get the outfit back to white after a week long event would be exciting.)

I think the problem is all the different colors. The maile is a silver white (galvanized?), the helmet and spear head are bronze, the boots look like pirate boots (and the gloves match, though I'm not sure if that's intentional), and the belt doesn't match the boots/gloves. I think that might be what is making the picture "seem off."

To mention again though, I do like the outfit. That kind of getup can be involved to do, so pulling together stuff for the outfit from different sources is legit to me.

by **Oisin** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:23 pm

It's not that it looks "off" in the modern sense, although it does do that, but it's rather historically incorrect. The maille is galvy, although I'm going to have to say you don't know what bronze looks like as the spearhead at least is stainless steel, can't tell about the helmet, and the boots are a completely modern style with readily visible rubber elements, same goes for gloves minus the rubber bits. As far as the belt and sword go, I can't really see what's going on with them, but they just don't look right in this picture.

by **debuenzo** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:06 pm

maybe it's the brick fireplace and the sliding doors?

Put that guy on a horse in the woods, and he'd look 10x better.

by **Soo Ma Tai** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:19 pm

He's not dirty enough, a real knight would have some dirt up on that.

by **Relg** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:25 pm

Perhaps he is new to Outremer?

by **theancient** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:43 am

I'd say the most obvious problem is the silhouette...its all wrong. Secondly, there is no padding under that mail...which especially around the helm and neck would help the silhouette. Oh, yeah those boots have to go as well. The tunic and cloak seem off as well...I wonder what they're made of?

by **tac the fierce** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:42 pm

This is my friend at his house, and the picture was from a cell phone, so not a very good, you know, definition...

...anyway, the stuff he's wearing is a bunch of different things, like he normally wears gauntlets and better boots. The gloves he's wearing are actually Bergils I believe, and the boots are a bit taller now.

BTW:: the picture was taken quite a while ago, and so a lot has changed garbwise since then.

how'd you get that picture anyhow?

BTWW:: im his sqire, so formally my name is: Tac the Fierce, Squire to Tancred, Holy General in Bergil, Dark Lord of Norcal's mighty army of Holy Crusaders, ordered by Pope Urban the II...

The reason he's dressed like that is because he's about to go to a ren faire, because other than Bel, we do Amtgard Stuff, Dagorhir stuff, and also Ren faires.

But of course, mostly Belegarth rules are what we apply to our practices, when were not using shinai or wasters.

by **Claymore** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:08 pm

tac the fierce wrote:
how'd you get that picture anyhow?

the image properties led me here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22309429@N02/?saved=1
I think you linked the website address to the img tag instead of the Image address.

Anyhow, the outfit in the picture was preety good. I for one would like to see more historical persona's. The biggest thing that looks off to me is the color of the chain mail. It's much brighter than the helm or blade. Other than that, it looks great.

by **tac the fierce** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:31 pm

Claymore wrote: The biggest thing that looks off to me is the color of the chain mail. It's much brighter than the helm or blade. Other than that, it looks great.

The main reason about that was the lighting, he has a light hanging up in the one corner of his room, and so anyone taking pictures is thrown off horribly.

by **Oisin** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:06 pm

No, the main reason for that is that it's clearly galvanized steel.

by **Cib** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:18 pm

Came across these wile searching google.

From: http://www.vikingsofmiddleengland.co.uk/combat.html

by **Solusar** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:14 pm

That guys shield is ****. Kind of scary but an awesome picture.

by **Oisin** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 5:35 pm

That happened regularly to real shields. Bel, Dag, SCA, etc (not to mention Hollywood) give us incredibly unrealistic expectations about shield durability. Most shields were wasters.

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