The first sight of the Fort gate brought tears to my eyes! The work done makes this the premire Roman re-enactment site in the USA! Having a place to sleep in barracks, a real gate to guard, and cavalry, with the added plus of britons to fight! Sometimes the auxiliaries have to change sides, just to balance out the battles, but either way, it is a great event!

Getting everything together for another fun re-enactment weekend at Castra Lafe, we'll post photos when we get back.

We leave for Lafe in 3 days, yet the truck won't be going, so the extra spears, catapult, shields, and the bunk bed will be staying behind. We're going to take only the basics for a campaign, no frills, except the draco standard and bearskin, and extra blankets. of course, we will need camera and film, but that is a necessity, not a frill. The boffer pila worked really well in practise, we'll see what happens when we use them in melee on Saturday! Masybe I'll be over my sinus cold in time to get pneumonia at Fort Lafe!!!

well, we started the website, put up a couple of photos and links. In the real world, we were building pila or Roman missile weapons for the event at Lafe, Arkansas today. The weapon is designed to be thrown at people as an armor penetrating weapon. Peter Connolly said they weren't supposed to be used only to take out a shield but actually were meant to kill the enemy. Since our pila will be used in mock battles, we don't want to kill people, so we put a tennis ball on the end of some high pressure PVC, and attach it to a golf tube. When the weapon hits a target, it will become unusable because a balsa wood pin in the handle will break. Until the balsa wood pin is replaced, the pila will hopefully be unusable, like the originals.