Firepower progression of the Myrmidon

[hcobb]

Let us assume that the police / town guard or whatever actually exist. (Otherwise all the PCs should simply be more open about being thieves than usual.)

Then the NPCs doing these jobs would need to be qualified for them.

A typical police recruit (at 28 attributes) would then be
ST 10 DX 10(9) IQ 8
Saber(2d-2), Horsebow(1d), Small Shield(1), Cloth armor(1)
Sword(2), Shield(1), Bow(2)

This person has a 2.1% chance of dying each week on the job. Which means that after five years less than one in 200 of them is still alive.

So let us assume a promotion within the first year to regular for the third of them that are still breathing.

police regular
ST 10 DX 10(9) IQ 10
Saber(2d-2), Horsebow(1d), Small Shield(1), Cloth armor(1)
Sword(2), Shield(1), Bow(2), Unarmed Combat I(1)

That's 700 XP required in one year.