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Old 12-12-2019, 11:30 AM   #43
AlexanderHowl
 
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Default Re: [LT Armor Loadouts] Expensive Greaves

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Originally Posted by Varyon View Post
But is such a large spread between, say, scale and plate appropriate? Using +3 CF, bronze scale armor costs $80/lb; assuming the cost of labor is the same as for iron scale (which is $7 iron, $13 labor, per lb), this puts the bronze for scale at around $63/lb - just shy of 10x the cost of iron. Bronze plate armor costs $500/lb; assuming the cost of labor is the same as for iron plate (which is $14 materials, $111 labor), this puts the bronze for plate at around $389/lb ($382/lb if we assume it uses the same amount of charcoal as iron plate) - over 50x the cost of iron, and over 6x the cost of bronze appropriate for scale.
Bronze scales are easier to replace if there is a mistake and easier to work because of the flexible nature of the armor. Fitting the bronze plate to an individual requires enormous effort, probably hundreds of hours of skilled labor, as adjusting it is quite difficult. Anyway, most hoplites wore linothroax, not bronze, so it was much less expensive (bronze was for wealthy citizens, not common folk).
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