Tips on the Art of Death

[HWM_Sharpe]

The way I do it is just like what really happened. For ACW if its a death shot I crumble like a sack of potatoes. WW2 Head snap helmet fly's off. ACW wounding still crumble like a sack of potatoes and either moan or pull out my bloody bandage and wrap it around my arm, leg, or sometimes head. ww2 Medics take care of that stuff. The whole sack of potatoes thing is from what im told by vets it looks like. Usually its when they are telling a story and they say "Dropped him like a sack of potatoes" and they mean that's what it looks like.

[Landrik]

Yeah, the sack of potatoes thing is what I do most of the time. If I want to get wounded I try to think it all out in my head first:

1. Get shot at
2. Jump like something bit me and try and get cover or hide a bit
3. Blood loss slips in and I stumble a bit
4. Fall over like if I fainted
5. Move around a bit like in a daze

or

1. Get shot at
2. Immediate pain so loud yelling, etc.
   a. Get shot again
   b. Crawl back

[Dan the Seagull Chef]

I was doing a roman reenactment and I took the "Going town like a sack of potatoes" a little far I guess. I was a Gaul and I took a shield bash to the face. I got a broken nose and got knocked out. No one realized I got knocked out until 30 minutes later. The battle ended in 15.

[DeoVindice61]

Ouch...

When its time for me to go down. I like to take 10 step forward holding my neck with shocked face and spin round slowly as i fall into seizure then its like slamming me with a fry pan i stop ice cold. Very realstic, many years of studying hollywood.

[Landrik]

Hey Dan, that's what I call taking a hit, haha!

Hollywood Hits are very fun.

[Millander]

Whats annoying about my club is your not allowed to fall forward in front of the line when you take a hit. It takes allot of the fun out of it.

[GodsonGuys]

Could you guys show me some videos or descriptions on the best way to fall after a hit?

[DeoVindice61]

Could you guys show me some videos or descriptions on the best way to fall after a hit?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7gNHaTFYeY[/youtube]

[GodsonGuys]

Could you guys show me some videos or descriptions on the best way to fall after a hit?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7gNHaTFYeY[/youtube]

Every shot brought him back to life....

[Riddlez]

Could you guys show me some videos or descriptions on the best way to fall after a hit?

Spoiler

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7gNHaTFYeY[/youtube]

[close]

Every shot brought him back to life....

Imagine 20 guys in a row doing this...

[Duuring]

At one re-enactment, a French bloke took a hit and fell down screaming. And kept screaming. And screaming. He twisted around, clawed at his mates, until eventually his captain poked him with his sabre and 'finished him off'. It looked awesome xD

[Thomas Gordon Baker]

When I am hit I tend to be very un-dramatic.

This is my rule of thumb for different styles of Re-enactment
Civil War- If in face/head
  Grab face and fall forward
  Snap head back and fall
Torso- may fall backward or forward depending on where I'm hit I may twist
When charging I trip

WW1- Usually when heavily laden with my P08 equipment I will fall to my knees, fall forward, or fall to the side

Artillery-I let the concussion do most of the job

Occasionally I will scream but usually I just plain out die not much for getting wounded.

The way I cry and pluck at my comrades would make them want to mercy kill me in real life I decided if I get hit I die a few years ago at Shiloh. I tried playing wounded and and cracked a rib falling back into a tree the branch broke it like a twig. From then on in open combat I just die

[Duuring]

I'm invincible.

[zac]

Thats the spirit

[AeroNinja]

Seppuku (切腹)