Armored Combat:Handbook
Armored Combat - Rattan
These rules were approved by the Board of Directors - 18 November 2025.
They will be fully in effect from 23 December 2025.
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The currently active Society rules (Oct 2023) are available at www.sca.org
If you have questions or comments, please email armored@sca.org
Introduction
Participants (I want to do the thing)
- Overview of armored combat
- When you are allowed to participate
- Expected behavior and responsibilities*
- Activity guidelines
- Conventions - Holds
- Conventions - Rules of engagement
- Conventions - Use of weapons and defensive equipment
- Conventions - Target areas
- Conventions - Acknowledgement of blows
- Equipment standards - Armor
- Equipment standards - Handheld weapons
- Equipment standards - Defensive equipment
- Equipment standards - Ranged weapons
- Equipment standards - Missiles (Ammunition/Munitions)
- Designated areas
- Authorization *
- Authorization process example
Participants & Marshals (Safety resources, injuries, problems)
Marshals (I want to marshal the thing)
- Marshalate - Overview*
- Marshalate - Responsibilities and chain of command*
- Kingdom marshalate
- Inspecting equipment
- Marshaling on the field
Administration (I want to run the thing)
Other information
*These pages are global - they are in each handbook
Copyright
Copyright © 2025 by the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc, all rights reserved.
This handbook is an official corporate publication of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to researching and recreating the customs, combat and courtesy of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., may print or photocopy this work in whole or in part for SCA use, provided that copyright credit is given and no changes are made to the text.