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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Unless you're a hedge knight (who isn't settled anyway) a knight's standard of living is covered by his overlord or order. They're living in someone else's house. You have to be a landed knight to have lands of your own.
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Knights still typically owned their own equipment and horses, even if some of it was gifted to them. GURPS counts your own equipment as part of your wealth, it doesn't matter where it came from originally. And even if you devote all of a knights wealth to gear, Wealthy still isn't enough to cover the gear for a status 2 knight (and you can forget about a horse, much less more than one).
That aside, as I said above, the problem isn't that GURPS wealth is too low to cover a knight's equipment, the problem is it seems to not cover any realistic equipment without sinking too-high levels of wealth into a character for their status. Should a Roman Republican Hastati (Status -1) really need "Wealthy" wealth to cover his gear ($2684 for just the armor per
Loadouts: Low-Tech, plus $200 for the shield, and more for the weapons)? Likewise, the Hoplite (Status 1 for Early, Status 0 for late) costs FAR too much for their status.
This is also a problem when one looks at equipment that standard High Medieval infantry would use. Manuscript imagery shows the common soldiers with a surprising level of armor that would require them to be wealthy or better to afford even if made with "cheap" quality.