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So I hear Panzerkit has some new armor and is working on constructing a new sword.

I must say: Amtgard construction rules HAVE evolved since 6.1 when I played. The current rules revision is 7.6 and it requires a full six inches of legal striking material on any stabbing point. This is, if you ask me, absurd. It invalidates every weapon in my inventory, which all have between 1.5" and 3" of stab foam. 6" is just CRAZY, especially if the weapon is a dagger -- 6" of stab foam on a dagger basically means that you have a handle with a blade completely made of foam. @.@ (Edit: *research* Oh, wait, the rule specifically refers to stab-ONLY weapons. Disregard! Actually the new weapon construction rules are a lot less ambiguous and overall I can't criticize except for the aforementioned courtesy padding on pole weapons.)

It seems 7.6 also switched the official rule to shot-in-motion; I always played atomic-clock because shot-in-motion was really hard to judge with some of our fighting styles. On the other hand, shot-in-motion has been explicitly defined as a 0.5 second window... which makes Brandon all that more lethal because he can definitely land a hit in that amount of time.