Large Boar Armor

[vierasmarius]

I'd keep the numbers the same, probably just dropping the neck armor, and then modify for the relative SM as per Low Tech Companion 2, pg 21. Horses are SM +1, so if the boar is SM -1 its armor will be 25% the weight and cost, or 64% if SM +0.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by vierasmarius

I'd keep the numbers the same, probably just dropping the neck armor, and then modify for the relative SM as per Low Tech Companion 2, pg 21. Horses are SM +1, so if the boar is SM -1 its armor will be 25% the weight and cost, or 64% if SM +0.

A wild boar isn't likely to be SM -1. According to Wikipedia, they run 4-6 feet long and weigh 110-200 pounds; that's basically human sized. I'd made them SM 0.

Bill Stoddard

[vierasmarius]

Originally Posted by whswhs

A wild boar isn't likely to be SM -1. According to Wikipedia, they run 4-6 feet long and weigh 110-200 pounds; that's basically human sized. I'd made them SM 0.

Bill Stoddard

Fair enough. I didn't see stats in GURPS Basic, so just guessed. That puts boar armor at roughly 2/3 the weight and cost of horse barding.

[supersaiyandoyle]

Thanks for the help.

[Sam Baughn]

If you really want to go into detail, note that a hog will have proportionately larger body and head than a horse of the same 'size', but shorter neck and legs.

EDIT: also, you need to seperate your tags with commas. At the moment you have one tag which reads as 'boar-armor-large-low-tech'. A better set would probably be 'boar, armor, low-tech' ('large isn't really a meaningful tag here... and frankly I've got my doubts about 'boar'... maybe 'animal' would work better).