[Glorantha] Re: Bronze vs Iron

Rob

>I thought that the thing was the bronze swords were quite brittle,
>and under battle conditions more likely to snap bend or break than
>the iron sword

I don't know. I do recall that both Iron Age Britons and Vikings are said to have had to stop in combat and straighten bent swords.

IIRC, the huge advantage iron has is that it's much more plentiful. The big advantage of bronze is that it's easier to produce.

But that's in our world. In Glorantha, the metals do what the rules say. (Though I am borrowing heavily from copper smelting to determine how the processing of bronze ore works -- in my game, the characters went back to a random battle in the Gods War, and managed to locate the site so as to mine the bones of the dead.)

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