Fubarnii Fantasy Football

[Lord Abaddon of Wormwood]

Was thinking that a game might be more a mix of Polo and Grayhound racing....... Mounted Fubarnii going after a "bunny" thing. This would be a mix of Survival and Warfare training and Sport. A game/sport played in a hollow area.

I am not cruel but just practical. Kind of like "Bull Fighting" or something.


Lord Abaddon of Wormwood

[Carcharoth]

Good point from Rick on the old eyesight issue, and the binoculars are far too new an invention to have made their way into sport.

A bullfighting style sport does possibly make sense. It seems less 'noble' than some sort of ball based game, but then again I think the Fubarnii probably have plenty of passtimes that aren't that noble.

[dequant]

In some post I read that engineers make a sort of a competition with their creations. Why not a sport with engineerr's creations?

[Rick]

Was thinking that a game might be more a mix of Polo and Grayhound racing....... Mounted Fubarnii going after a "bunny" thing. This would be a mix of Survival and Warfare training and Sport. A game/sport played in a hollow area.

Survival skills against a bunny! Reminds me of the Klingon Tribble hunt jokes from Star Trek!

Good idea if you scale it up a bit though. A popular 'sport' around the middle ages for nobles was deer and boar hunting. Deer hunting was done from horseback with spears and tested a riders skill and agility, running deer are fast and change direction! Boar hunting was done on foot and was pretty dangerous, the Boars were vicious and fought back!

Maybe a mounted Grishak hunt might be the way to go after all?

In some post I read that engineers make a sort of a competition with their creations. Why not a sport with engineerr's creations?

I think this has been sort of done by the Pax Limpopo "Pig Tickler" rules, played it once, hilarious!

[Gethuch]

In some post I read that engineers make a sort of a competition with their creations. Why not a sport with engineerr's creations?

The engineers' competitions are more like tests to settle boasting than a sport   Large amounts of money can be involved though, both in bets and in the economic/industrial adoption of the winning technology.

But the Empire Knights are particularly fond of a mounted game which is vaguely similar to Pato:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pato
This was appropriated (and somewhat formalised) from its origins as a folk-game, to serve as a training exercise, before coming full-circle and gaining popularity outside the military.