[weapons] giant tungsten warhammer

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

Strength-base melee weapons do damage based on the ST of their wielder, not because of their own mass.

I think someone once said somewhere (like back in the late 90's) that ST required is roughly based on BL equalling the weight of the weapon? With two-handed weapons being 1.5 times BL?

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by evileeyore

I think someone once said somewhere (like back in the late 90's) that ST required is roughly based on BL equalling the weight of the weapon? With two-handed weapons being 1.5 times BL?

That really would not work. It would let a ST 10 human, with BL 20 lbs., wield a 20-lb. sword one-handed.

[Maz]

Originally Posted by whswhs

That really would not work. It would let a ST 10 human, with BL 20 lbs., wield a 20-lb. sword one-handed.

Well, if you look at just the weapons in Basic.

It's roughly:
ST: 1h/2h max wt.
6: 1/-
8: 2/4
10: 3/6
11: 5/8
12: 6/10
13: -/12


And if you then say max wt. of a weapon for a ST is BL/5. Then if you squint your eyes a bit, then it roughly matches. But not really.
But I think it's fair to say the weapons ST-requirement for the realistic weapons are eyeballed and fitted to match what makes sense. And not by a formula.

[Edges]

A campaign I once ran had supers using massive weapons. I used a fairly quick and dirty method of multiplying minST and damage adds by the square root of the weight multiple.

The hammer in question is 200 times the weight of the maul listed in GURPS Characters. The square root of 200 is 14.14. So, using this rule, the hammer would do sw+56 and minST would be 184.

YMMV

[Mr Frost]

Realistically You would not only need enormous Strength to wield such a weapon but also equally impressive inertia , or you're just swinging yourself about a nearly stationary piece of art deco combat kitch .