A Chivalry Medieval Warfare archery training group

Here is a list of names of all the different ways we will be hoping to train your skills in the archer class with:

Kyudo - The main way we will be training. What we call Kyudo will involve 2 partners, 1 an archer and 1 a man at arms. It will be the job of the man at arms to provide a challenging target for the partner playing archer, changing speed, direction and distance at random intervals. They may also try ducking to confuse the archer. Players will switch roles when told to by the instructor.

Warm-up - Every training session will begin with this. It is not so much a training method but more so a way of memorising your weapon's projectile speed. 1 partner will go knight with a tower shield and the other will remain an archer. The knight will walk, run and move while crouched in a straight, predictable pattern. The archer will attempt to hit the knight's tower shield 3 times, each while they are walking, running and moving while crouched. Once the knight's tower shield has been hit 3 times in all 3 of these movement speeds, they will change the distance between them and the archer 2 more times and the sequence will be repeated each time. Players will switch roles when 3 different distances are done.

Skeet - What is known as Skeet in this group will involve an archer and a man at arms. The man at arms will walk and run around in an unpredictable pattern before occasionally jumping. The archer will attempt to fire on the man at arms only on the precise moment they jump.

Secondary Switching - 1 partner will be a vanguard and the other will remain an archer. The vanguard will attempt to reach the archer and kill them while avoiding any arrows they shoot. The archer will try to get as many shots down range on the vanguard as possible and switch to melee if needed. If the archer dies or gets hit with their ranged weapon out or while switching, they did not switch soon enough.

Projectile Team Bypass - This will require a 3-person group. The idea is that the archer will be training their ability to time when to fire a shot so as to not hit their teammate but hit the enemy they are fighting or are at least close to. The other two people in the group will try to simulate a melee fight scenario by casually trying to hit their opponent and blocking whatever comes at them. The archer will have one person which they will try not to hit and the other they will try to hit. Players will switch roles in this pattern: archer to friendly melee, friendly melee to enemy melee, enemy melee to archer.

General Melee - Whilst this group is mostly for ranged training, good key skills in melee are also important in the many occassions your good accuracy alone just won't do. General melee training will also include sparring.

Ranged Sparring - Simply put, this will involve you and your partner dueling each other with ranged weapons from a certain distance. Over the course of however long this training type goes on for, you can keep record of your score, comparing it to any other time you may have sparred in this fashion with your partner. If you run out of ammo, you can stop and say "Out" before suiciding and respawning with more ammo. This will not count in any way towards your score.

Zig Zag Short - One player will be a vanguard and the other will remain an archer. The vanguard will run in a short zig zag towards the archer and the archer will practice finding the appropriate point to fire into.

Zig Zag Long - Similar to the zig zag short training method, but the zig zag the vanguard will run in will stretch at least 8 seconds worth of distance before changing direction. The archer will have their aim following behind the vanguard by a certain distance, ready to fire instantly when they change direction.

Longshots - This will involve one archer and any melee class (decided by the instructor). The melee class and archer will set themselves at a great distance from each other, and it is the goal of the archer to try and hit the melee class regardless of how they move. Whether they move around as randomly as possible or in a predictable pattern is also decided by the instructor.

High Ground - One archer and any melee class is required for this. The archer will place themselves onto an elevated position from the melee class. The instructor will say whether or not the melee class should move predictably in any way or move around as randomly as possible.

Directional Flick - This will require one archer and a man at arms. The man at arms will run straight towards the archer and then move either left or right at any random time. When they do, the archer must flick their aim in the direction the man at arms is going in order to score a hit.

Sports:

Our sport, as well as our main way of training, is Kyudo. But there will be various different ways in which we plan for this sport to be practiced:

Individual Kyudo - Students can ask an instructor to do one of these with them in order to improve their official Kyudo record, which is a requirement for receiving trials for ranking stages (see ranking system page). Regardless of what weapon, the student will fire 20 shots before they have to stop and their score will be recorded and put on this announcement page. The range at which you shoot the man at arms will depend on the weapon you are using.

In-clan Kyudo tournament - Students will compete to see who will get the highest score in one round of Kyudo. The one with the highest will be the winner.

Inter-clan Kyudo tournament - Archers from competitive clans will compete with each other and the student in our group with the most recent victory at In-Clan Kyudo.