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Originally Posted by safisher
...and...to which no one will agree because there is no real metric to benchmark performance to. Armor is benchmarked to bullet performance, but what are hit points and melee damage points benchmarked to?
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If half a dozen people with graduate degrees argued and experimented and researched for a few years, they might come up with something ... but that would require several people with real training working for several years and doing real research and experiments, not just citing things by memory and pointing to YouTube videos. We are lucky that some people with real expertise volunteer their time to work on the rules for modern kit in GURPS.
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Originally Posted by kracht
Interesting, thanks for pointing it out.
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My source is Robert Elgood's
Hindu Arms and Ritual. I won't say that the guys at SJG knew about swords like that in the 1970s, but there are a few real swords for which the non-Thrusting Broadsword is a reasonable set of stats.