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Old 10-14-2016, 12:41 PM   #61
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Default Re: High/Ultra-Tech Versions of Low-Tech Armor

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Originally Posted by Tomsdad View Post
The Pyramid article pretty much matches that range for cheap iron, but is more generous with what it calls "good" iron.
55 (or Doug's 51) is for 'good' iron. Cheap iron could be arbitrarily worse.
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Originally Posted by Tomsdad View Post
It also had the best "hard" steel at TL4 beat out RHA, but its very expensive and gets way cheaper at later TLs.
Hard steel isn't very good armor in general; it's too brittle. If they meant face-hardened steel, maybe.
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