[CF-Devel] New Archetypes, New maps, +Idease

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On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 13:07, Tim Rightnour wrote:
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      On 29-Sep-2004 Preston Crow wrote:
     
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      > Ahh, but bronze weapons are better than iron weapons.  (Sorry for
     
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      > letting reality intrude on a game environment.)
     
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      Umm.. since when?  The iron age came after the bronze age.  If bronze weapons
     
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      were better, they would have kept making swords out of bronze.  Bronze is a
     
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      relatively soft metal that dulls easier than iron does.  Additionaly, the
     
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      forging process of iron generally imbibes it with a small amount of carbon
     
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      making a low grade steel.
     
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      I would expect a bronze sword to be less effective over it's lifetime than an
     
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      iron one, simply because it would dull quickly.  As for bronze/iron hammers,
     
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      they would be relatively similar other than mass.
     
     
Alright, I had it backwards.  Sorry.

--PC



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