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Calimacil Spear in action
I am very proud to announce spear product review from Thomas Aagaard, leader of The 9th Stirland at Krigslive VII (Warlarp 7). The spear project is a success so far.
Calimacil Spear feedback:
+ We love them.
+ They are more durable
+ And more effective. One problem with our old ones where that the target often didn’t notice the hit. Now they do because of the weight.
+ Safe. Way better than our old homemade tips.
+ We are saving money. We lost two spears during drill before Krigslive and two more during combat at Krigslive. All of them because of a broken pole. With our old spears it would have been a total loss. Now we can reuse the tips, saving money and a lot of time.
- Looks… but really not as bad as we feared. And the color is a lot better than our old homemade latex tips.
The feedback we got from our enemies was also very good.
+ They notice the hits because of the weight.
+ But they are soft so it does not hurt. One was strongly hit in the head but mentioned that it hurt less that being hit by a soccer ball.
+ Looks not really that bad.
The leader of an enemy spear unit normally thinks Calimacil is too hard for larps… But he really liked the tips and actually talked about getting some for his unit next year…
Feedback from the Vejlegroup.
(they brought 12 of them)
They were happy with them.
Material
I don’t think that there are any durability problems with foam
Presentation movie:
Here is a fight with the 9th Stirland during Kriglive VII
Ok, so what is the next step now?
We have two versions ready for battle:
A) Pyramidal spear head with hole inside showed in this video
B) Pointed asymetric spear head with telescopic compession tested by Bicolline organisation and thrustable as well
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June 14th, 2011 at 11:54
There was a lot of debate about the Proto-types for the Calimacil Spear head I recall, concerns, questions, etc. It’s great to see the feedback was reviewed (obviously and it shows) and to see a video of it in action, so very nice. They looks great in action, great in pictures and look to be working out fine.
Very excited to see these go up for sale, and for those who have commented on the Murten Halberd head for sale, if you notice in the later part of the video another group comes in with, ta-da, the Murten Halberd Head. Looks good and they seem to have no problems (as they go wading into battle with what I assume are battle tested and proven weapons and not new ones.)
I noticed a lot of the troops also using the Squire Broadswords, nice to see so many enjoying and knowing they are safe with proven quality LARP weapons.
Great job Calimacil and Great Video!
June 14th, 2011 at 18:12
When can we order some! We are keen to get a unit of spearman in our game!
June 15th, 2011 at 04:56
When will theese tips be aviable for sale?
June 16th, 2011 at 06:51
I think the pyramidal is used yet, if you make the B) option I’mm sure that it would be more visual and original for the larperss mind
so I take B)
Good job as always calimacil!
June 20th, 2011 at 19:12
“A” this is my answer
February 11th, 2012 at 11:27
First off, these weapons indeed have me curious. I’d like to see one sometime.
Now, I have spent close to 18 years involved in various forms of combat from real military service (10 years), SCA (16 years), Dargorhir (12 years), and various other LARP games. My wife (lor’ bless her!) is contemplating further involvement.
This video is proof of many things I have enjoyed and disliked in war recreation LARP as opposed to real re-enactment (no SCA combat is NOT real re-enactment it is a polite game as well) or pure fantasy games. Looks like fun though and seems as if people are pleased for the most part.