08-21-2018, 03:18 AM | #21 | |
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08-21-2018, 03:25 AM | #22 | |
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Arrowheads can be as light as 1/100 lb.
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08-21-2018, 03:39 AM | #23 | |
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The prices for black-powder ammunition in High Tech are for pre-made paper cartridges (and percussion caps if necessary). GURPS books don't give the price for 'just the bullet.' But if you look at historical prices, and the prices of powder and shot in GURPS Low Tech, somewhere between G$5/lb and G$20/lb is reasonable.
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08-21-2018, 09:21 AM | #24 | |
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Gurps uses the 7000 grain pound in all cases and the prices of silver and gold in constant Gurps $ are taken as givens and constants for the purpose of simplification. Just to add to the confusion, in cases where I have been able to pin the facts down traditional "pounds" of lead have been the Troy pound of 12 ounces. So lead has more in common with gold and silver than just being soft and dense.:)
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08-22-2018, 02:51 AM | #25 | |
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I considered reworking the price lists for my Bronze Age campaign, then realized that I was putting a lot of work for something that only I cared about and used Basic Set + Low Tech prices with a few tweaks ($1 became 1 QA of barley, the barley-copper-silver exchange rate was tweaked ...)
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08-22-2018, 03:13 PM | #26 | |
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It's obvious that the really expensive bit in a musket cartridge is the gunpowder, which makes sense given the time and trouble required to collect the ingredients and make the powder, plus the difficulty of storing it. |
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08-22-2018, 03:15 PM | #27 |
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08-22-2018, 03:22 PM | #28 | |
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Time and effort required to make a mold for either an arrowhead or a bullet won't be comparatively that different, especially if you have a model part you can take a cast from, nor would clean-up of the cast parts. |
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