Welcome to Cove

Guardsman Duties - Drill Instructor

Gone are the days of the Militia - a rag tag group of fighters bound together by their duty to protect Cove. Nowadays each guardsman is a well oiled cog in the machine that is the Grand Covian Army! Only by constant training, drills and combat duty can this be maintained. See that it is!

Conditions.

This duty must be completed by a Junior Guardsman or above.
Lead 3 2Training Sessions. Cover fitness, orders and combat in each of these trainings and end them with a "free for all".
Lead 2 Hunts to put into practice what has been learnt. Make these hunts challenging for the guardsmen present. (Ilshenar? Tokuno?)
Lead 1 Parade Drill.
At least 5 guardsmen (including the leader) must attend each event.
Only one guardsman may complete this duty and all tasks must be completed within a month.
Pin a notice on the events board to encourage your fellow guardsmen to attend.
Post a full report for each event below.

Notes: Guardsman Duties are storyline driven missions that are interlinked with important Promotional Requirements, making the general grind of completing ten Hunts, or ten Patrols etc. a lot more interesting by livening up these tasks with a bit of intrigue and story.

Please sign below if you wish to lead this duty.

Good luck guardsmen.

*signed*

Raiden, Grenadier Corporal.

Would love to do this duty - but I am bearing the Watchman badge.

Very interesting.

Nevertheless, ye eagerness is noted, Watchman!

Gregor Eason, Acting Naval Lieutenant
The Baron's Navy, Baronship Of Cove

ooc: Does that meen within a month of starting or before may?

[ooc]If you pick up the task on 1st may 2007 you then have until 1st June 2007 to host the 6 events.[/ooc]

I shall get on with it as soon as possible sir.
I am planning to do the first training sesssion next Friday.

*Signed*
Thomas Sendrich

Har! Good work Tom!

I'll look forward to it!

*signed*

Raiden, Grenadier Corporal.

First Training, Fitness training with free for all.

Took place: Monday 7th May, 19:00, Barracks Roof.

Leader: Thomas Sendrich, Regular Dragoon

Attended: Hoagie Grayner, Dragoon Sergeant
                 Snudrud, Watchman
                 Falconheart, Watchman
                 Faden Wildheart, Watchman

This being the first in the series of trainings I started with physical fitness. I started of explaining why fitness was essential, this led to a number of Guardsman being offended but it can not be helped.
I explained that with out constent training one would end up a fat old man with an extremely short life, i also told them the importance of fitness to battle and the everyday life of a Guardsman.
I then went on to a warm up, starting with three laps of the arena with five pres ups in each corner.


After the introduction i described the three area's of fitness, Strength, Agility and Endurance.
I started the training with strength. I described how useful strength is to a Guardsman such as that without out it you would not be able to wear your uniform or raise your weapon let alone use it.
In order to exercise their strength i laid out a log in front of each pair and gave them a raise, first team to push the log to the other end of the arena and back, twice, wins. The winners were inevitably Hoagie and Faden, seeing as the other team had a Goblin.


I then moved on to Agility, this being the ability to move in and out of obstacles quickly.
To show the need for speed i used the scenario of an archer in a battle, taking around thirty seconds to reload a cross bow, this being how long you have to cross the field whilst dodging combatants. Falconheart explained that he could reload in a second and therefore no one could survive such and encounter.
I set up and obstacle course for this section. The Guardsman had to run in and out of a number of logs, and then jump over them, dodging puddles of water. The Guardsman had to complete this in under thirty seconds.


Lastly i talked about Endurance, the ability to keep up an exhausting exercise for a long period of time.
I told them about the Kaldorian campaign and how many of the soldiers had died in the camps from exhaustion.
To test their endurance we went on a long distance run. We went from the barracks to the Vesperian cross roads and back. This was very tiring, and brought about some bad feelings.


We finished off with a free for all, Snudrud cleverly left now and the winner was Hoagie.


*Signed*
Thomas Sendrich,. Regular Dragoon

Looks like ye gave 'em a good work out Tom.

Fine report too. I look forward to reading about the other tasks.

A good start to this duty!

*signed*

Raiden, Grenadier Corporal.

Unfortunately after a fine start Regular Sendrich is unable to complete this duty, so any Juniors or above may pick up the remaining tasks.

Sign below if you have what it takes!

*signed*

Raiden, Grenadier Corporal.