Consulting Swordsman
This has been quite a month. Since May 1st, here are the projects I have been working on, and some of the stuff I have done, in no particular order. Finishing and publishing the first three instalments of my Swordsman’s Quick Guide series. Working on a complete rewrite of Veni Vadi Vici. Installing a new … Read more
It is an exciting time here at the Audatia headquarters. We are busy working away on the Liechtenauer Expansion deck, and the Patron’s own character deck, which is also based on Liechtenauer’s system. I thought you might like to know how we are handling the specifics of the Liechtenauer system, and making these decks compatible … Read more
As I slowly progress towards mastery in my chosen Art, I get further and further ahead of my beginners. This could lead to me getting out of touch with their needs. I also get accustomed to a certain routine, a set way of doing things. Both of these things are death to a good teacher. … Read more
Yes, I spent some time clearing my desktop before shooting this…
I have been working for the last nine months on creating a teaching tool for students of Fiore’s art: a card game called Audatia. The game has been designed from the ground up as a way to make the abstract elements of Fiore’s system, such as the terminology and the overall tactical structure, easier to … Read more
For the last nine months I have been working on a card game, Audatia, which is intended primarily as a training tool for students of Fiore’s Art of Arms, and secondly as a way to spread knowledge of the Art more widely by making a fun and accessible game that anyone can enjoy. By playing … Read more
Swordfights are resolutely, absolutely, analogue. It is random, chaotic, non-linear to a degree. But for centuries, millennia even, man has been imposing order on the chaos, cataloguing the actions, naming the techniques, systematising the Art of Combat. This begins with taxonomy- such as naming the positions swordsmen use or find themselves in, the blows that … Read more