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Originally Posted by Anthony
Nickel and chromium mostly? I would give them DR 70/inch; I would give TL 3-5 iron about DR 55/inch, though sufficient work might allow face-hardened plates that match or exceed RHA (sword-making techniques did allow reasonable control of carbon content, though that's an awful lot of work for a breastplate).
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Cool cheers, so yeah that's pretty much a match for RHA.
The Pyramid article pretty much matches that range for cheap iron, and is more generous with what it calls "good" iron. It also had the best "hard" steel at TL4 beat out RHA, but its very expensive and gets way cheaper at later TLs.
Of course the best possible at the time and what is commonly available for general use often being very different things especially when your talking about Pre industrial manufacturing.