GURPS Low-Tech Companion 3: Daily Life and Economics

[Turhan's Bey Company]

Originally Posted by Tyneras

If it is talking per worker, then it assumes a human with 10 in every stat?

It doesn't assume anything, so far as stats are concerned. Those are, as best as I can reconstruct them (which admittedly is not particularly well), based on historically documented working times. So the stats in question are "whatever real people had." Scaling for unusual skill levels can be handled by clever application of the labor cost rules on p. 23. Scaling for populations with unusual attributes (relevant for construction, which requires lots of strong backs) is out of scope for this book and could be the subject of a section of another Fantasy Tech volume. I'd probably base the scaling on BL rather than directly on ST.

Originally Posted by Gudiomen

On composite weapon materials, it mentions that, for example, a spear is 3/4 wood... but on the materials it's not clear (to me) which size of wood should be used for hafts... 4" poles seem too thick, and planks seem simply inappropriate... any tips?

The tips are stone, bronze, or iron...oh, sorry. Pay attention to the size rather than the shape. Like the note says, "When buying wood, calculate price per pound by its thinnest dimension." The two-inch is probably about right.