SCA members?

[Quintus Claudius Scaevola]

Salve -

I hope this is in the correct section and appropriate. I am not sure whether talking about an outside group is okay?

Are there any SCA members on RAT? If so, what ways have you modified your kit to still be Roman but fall within SCA fighting rules?

I am also trying to find links for clothing for women.

Vade in pace.

Tasia

...As a matter of fact, there do be some. mile:
I'm just getting my feet wet into the heavy combat, but the real big differences I can think of as far as armour goes mostly falls under the helms. I've got a friend who is going to be working with me to fashion an SCA-legal helm, and a 'dress' helm for non-combat walkabouts.

Looking through Daniel Peterson's 'The Roman Legions, Recreated in...' what we've come up with to fit into the correct time period and the easiest to modify would be to use an Imperial Gallic 'H' helm; The idea is that with a narrow and sloped neck-guard, shots deflected to the guard won't jerk the head around as easily, as it's a smaller target. It's also going to make more sense to throw on grills to protect the ear-holes from an errant thrust, and a barred-face guard. The jury is still out on locking cheek-pieces...

A gorget can be covered up with a focale easily enough, and I think that lorica segmentata should work as far as torso armour goes (I'm not sure if lights can get away with lorica hamata - Heavies definitely couldn't). As I'm sure you've guessed by now, the hardest part of doing Roman armour for the SCA is that while your typical legionnaire didn't wear much to protect his legs or arms, the SCA won't let you onto the field without it. That means either hiding arms & legs underneath extremely long and loose tunica/braccae (Which I personally think looks horrible) or using greaves and manica. The examples off the Legion XX site (http://www.larp.com/legioxx/manica.html & http://www.larp.com/legioxx/greaves.html) have instructions on how to make both. The main differences is the metal thickness, and that (At least according to An Tir's rules), knee and elbow cops with wings are required - The above examples don't have them, but there's not much that can be done about that.

Cleats or combat boots instead of caligae are one of the better ideas (Mine are steel-toed), and while a scutum will be fine for war, you'll have to have a smaller version if you want to use it in tournaments. *sigh* Women's clothing ideas can be found in several sources (I don't recall if the Osprey series covers civilian females, or just military personnel), but there's also a link to women's fashion off the Legion XX site as well (http://www.larp.com/legioxx/civcloth.html)

I hope that's helpful to you, but as you're a fellow Oregonian and not too far off, perhaps we can collaborate more.

-Quintus Claudius Britanicus,
Legionnaire, LEGIIAVG