TL4 Without Iron - Page 5

Sindri · 04-30-2014, 05:40 PM

If you have a TL4 society that doesn't have access to iron but is otherwise fairly close to standard TL4 including the size of it's population and military what happens to bronze? Does it's CF increase as the demand for bronze increases past the ability to supply it or is the society capable of increasing production enough to maintain the normal CF or even decrease it? Roughly how many people are we looking at being able to outfit in bronze armour? Do you think military use of bronze will be most useful focused on a smaller group or allowing some amount of protection for a lot of people or for that matter is it better to focus on arming people? Will developments in material technology cause items made from bronze in historical bronze age societies to shift to other materials? Will new categories of items requiring metal cause a notable shift in the distribution of bronze across items?

04-30-2014, 05:40 PM	#1
Sindri Join Date: Nov 2011	TL4 Without Iron If you have a TL4 society that doesn't have access to iron but is otherwise fairly close to standard TL4 including the size of it's population and military what happens to bronze? Does it's CF increase as the demand for bronze increases past the ability to supply it or is the society capable of increasing production enough to maintain the normal CF or even decrease it? Roughly how many people are we looking at being able to outfit in bronze armour? Do you think military use of bronze will be most useful focused on a smaller group or allowing some amount of protection for a lot of people or for that matter is it better to focus on arming people? Will developments in material technology cause items made from bronze in historical bronze age societies to shift to other materials? Will new categories of items requiring metal cause a notable shift in the distribution of bronze across items? Last edited by Sindri; 04-30-2014 at 05:43 PM.