Category:Armoury Team

All members of the Vikings Society share responsibility for ensuring their weapons meet the society specifications – it is not just the business of the Society’s armoury team. However, some members of the Society do have a more formal role and are here to help everyone to attain the high standards that are essential to the Society's ongoing success.

Restructure of the Armoury Department

For the time being the Armoury Team will be run by a Witan of 5 people. they will be directly responsible to the Konungr for developing, reviewing and communicating to members the specifications for weapons used by The Vikings. The Department is also responsible for checking the safety of weapons being taken onto the field, along with the RTTCs.

Who are the armoury team?

The new witan is made up of:

• Becca Bradford - Qualifications
• Mike Buckley (Varg) - Logistics
• Matthew Martin - Administration
• Boon Sim - Specifications
• Druva Sinanan - Communications

Any enquiries to the Armoury Witan can be made via armoury-at-vikingsonline.org.uk

What are the different Witan members responsible for?

Armoury Communications: Responsible for

• Timely response to queries from members by email and on Facebook relating to weapons specs.
• Sign post members to the Wiki or the doc store for the information they need.
• First port of call for members who wished to join the Armoury team.*
• Ensure that all emails coming into the armoury inbox were directed to the correct person and dealt with.

Armoury Qualification: Responsible for

• Continue to develop a process for trainee armourers, focusing on understanding of the specs, knowing where to direct people, ability to carry out a weapons check and demonstrate good ‘bedside manner’.
• Production of an At-At Handbook
• Carry out and record the training progress of members of the team.
• Ensuring that all armourers read and understand the Thegns Code and have completed the Thegns Code Quiz.

Armoury Specifications: Responsible for :

• Focus on the clarification of the specs, building consistency for the way each weapon is described.
• Develop ‘Market Guide’ for quick reference especially for newer members).
• Standardisation for all specs to metric
• The spec and the market guide need to be accessible from the wiki. This might point to the full specs on the Docstore, or be repeated on the Wiki, as seems best.
• Responsible for the production of a guest guide – especially for Locko.

Armoury Logistics: Responsible for:

• Liaise with the armoury team to see who is available at majors to do weapons checks.
• Arrange some weapons clinics each year at majors (or large mediums).
• Person who group leaders approached if they wanted help with weapons checks at medium events.
• Continue to explore the production of the gauges and plan the distribution and instruction necessary so that someone in each group could use them.
• Responsible for the discipline of the armoury team and be the first port of call for any complaints about armourers. They may need to mediate with group leaders or individual members.
• Expected to attend the Jarls’ Meeting on behalf of the team. If they are unable to attend the Administrator will be asked to attend. Failing that the Logistics lead must ensure that another Witan members is delegated to attend.
• Responsible for ensuring that liaison and collaboration with the Combat, Authenticity and Health and Safety Teams has been carried out as necessary.

Armoury Administration: Responsible for:

• Leads on the Armoury presence on the Wiki.*
• Arranging regular meetings for the team and organises agendas. Perhaps 3-4 times a year.
• Ensure that the meetings were minuted and discussion points shared with relevant people within and outside the armoury team.
• Report to the Konungr following each Armoury team meeting, by sharing the minutes.
• Responsible for compiling the annual Armoury report to the Jarls’ meetings – prompting other Witan members for content.
• Keep the admin DB updated with the roles of the armoury team, also keeping records of the progress of training and whether the Thegns Code Quiz has been completed.