09-01-2010, 05:58 PM
@ Matt: No but that's what practice is for! :lol: Also the gear I'm talking about is a helmet, and the shield. You can't get on a horse easily with a shield on your arm. Also the getting on also includes the time it takes to run to the horse.
@ Ron: Uh, Rom, I got the rope stirrup idea from you a couple of pages back. Oh yes, and the design is just extremely simple, just a length of rope with a loop on the bottom.
Anyways I am aware that there would normally be a lot of time to get kit on and prepare, though what I'm illustrating is a worst-case scenario, and at the point I'm at right now I still think that rope stirrups would be the best thing to get onto a horse. Anyways, my ideas are just fule for this discussion, if we really want to know how fast someone in armour can vault into a saddle we should ask John Conyard. Oh, yes and it took about a half a minute to slap on and strap up a helmet and grab my shield off of the saddle horn. Actually it was quite interesting, the helmet strap was like putting on a watch, you can only do it effectively with one hand. I was worrying about the reins with my other one.
That means that I'd be combat-ready, at my level, in a minute with stirrups made of rope, and a minute forty with a Celtic saddle, though with more pracitce it'll likely go down to about a minute ten total. Just another next to useless piece of data, but its still got some use. Next up, weapons testing, mine and a Saxon's. Which then leads into what I'm going to do to make sure I'm not going to get squeered by a guy with a spear :lol:
@ Ron: Uh, Rom, I got the rope stirrup idea from you a couple of pages back. Oh yes, and the design is just extremely simple, just a length of rope with a loop on the bottom.
Anyways I am aware that there would normally be a lot of time to get kit on and prepare, though what I'm illustrating is a worst-case scenario, and at the point I'm at right now I still think that rope stirrups would be the best thing to get onto a horse. Anyways, my ideas are just fule for this discussion, if we really want to know how fast someone in armour can vault into a saddle we should ask John Conyard. Oh, yes and it took about a half a minute to slap on and strap up a helmet and grab my shield off of the saddle horn. Actually it was quite interesting, the helmet strap was like putting on a watch, you can only do it effectively with one hand. I was worrying about the reins with my other one.
That means that I'd be combat-ready, at my level, in a minute with stirrups made of rope, and a minute forty with a Celtic saddle, though with more pracitce it'll likely go down to about a minute ten total. Just another next to useless piece of data, but its still got some use. Next up, weapons testing, mine and a Saxon's. Which then leads into what I'm going to do to make sure I'm not going to get squeered by a guy with a spear :lol:
Nicholas