Fellows, A squad from my unit is planning to attend the event this March for the first time. We will have at least six young guys, lean and mean, from the 29th...
RETO Rules update!! Here are a couple of changes that I believe will upgrade the event.. 1) NO TACTICAL OBJECTIVES (TO) can be moved in the first 30 minutes of...
Can't agree on the messenger not being able to fire back. Like Captain Mal says, "if someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back!" He carries...
Hmmm... interesting. I think you should allow them (messangers) to fire their weapon in self defence. But I agree that their objective should be to be ...
The problem with allowing the messenger to fire back is... this allows for John Wayne snipers and people to go out on their own. This goes against one of the...
Maybe the messengers can only fire if fired upon first? That gives them a chance but derails the "lone wolfs" and "snipers". **************Ideas to please...
How do you distinguish between a messenger and a runner? That is, if I see a lone German do I assume that he is one or the other? What stops a person from...
Snipers... I'd say they only should be allowed if people start honoring covering and suppressing fires. One way to deal with a sniper (if you can't see him) is...
In a message dated 2/21/2008 11:09:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, daveww2@... writes: Snipers... I'd say they only should be allowed if people start...
Agreed, snipers don't work well at all in most situations. We tried that with the Graef system at Rensselaer, but it was too hard to control, and often people...
Indeed, enemy's an enemy when you're out in the field! Or better yet: each side that regularly plays together (or hell, the whole HRS) should standardize on a...
The main problem with Snipers in Reenacting, is it's hard to know when you are under fire by them and counteract them -- anti- sniper operations. Per example.....
Please stop the discussion on Snipers in RETO ... It won't happen in one of my RETO events. As Pieter pointed out, RETO has a basic moral factor included ......
Dave, I agree. It would be really hard to call out shots from cover and or concealment without giving up ones position. Double that for distance that a real...
Group, I think we need to concentrate on the basic rules of engagement before we start adding more to the mix at an event. We all had to tolerate the never...
Dear Dan, As a member of the 9th Para, I'm proud of the lads in my unit, hits are not a commodity we horde, they are taken with pride and given when deserved,...
Alan, I'm happy to hear the roll down the hill was appreciated since it was me making that tumble. It left a few bruises but helped dirty up my white camo. One...
we had same trouble with highlanders in rev war thered be 50 of us on there flank firing into it and not one hit and this is in front of the public they...
When this kind of activity starts: Ignoring or not taking hits, I will take it upon myself to be an impromptu Umpire. Maybe more should start doing this? When...
Okay, now enough of all this other talk!! LOL .. now back to RETO. I am going to change the Objectives a little bit this time .. or more specificially the MAP...
This will be our third effort as Umpires for Custer and we, like everyone else, have learned some lessons. Considering the theme of the event the rules are...
Hello Alan, I'm a west coast reenactor that is interested in RETO. I'm not able to access the RETO rules, is this because I'm a new member? will i be able to...
thanks for letting me know ... got it fixed now. I'll be posting an addendum to the December RETO rules in the next few days for use next week at Delay the...
I will be encouraging all umpires to have a small notebook/pencil in their pocket. I've witnessed way too many individuals wandering around at a RETO event in...
For the most part, those people that choose to criticize it seem to be the ones that have not been in one yet. It is simply too simple for some to grasp...
Alan, Just a thought........you might want to add a yellow "warning" tag to the RETO rules for those that have never tried it. It can spoil the plain old...
Hi all, first wanted to say great group, I'm really enjoying reading about this type of reenacting.. I was just wondering does anyone have any links to events...
