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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8301882" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>But that also doesn't really bear out.</p><p></p><p>Breastplates were common armor through the 1620s, but the costs of them were rising with the population of people who needed them. Equipment for a single Cuirassier in the 1620s cost 4 pounds and 10 shillings. That's with the breastplate, helmet, gorget, pauldrons, armguards, and vambraces as well as a gusset and half-greaves that covered the front of the legs. Before the decimalization in the 1700s, of course. To go back that far I had to look into the value of a pound in 1997 compared to 1600, then go per pound to modern day.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.maybole.org/history/archives/valueofthepound.htm[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.officialdata.org/uk/inflation/1997?amount=1[/URL]</p><p></p><p>A 1600s pound in 1997 was worth 114 pounds. In 2021, a 1997 pound is worth 1.87 pounds. That Cuirassier costs 959 pound to equip. That's $1,350.</p><p></p><p>The entire Kit of a Harquebusier only cost 1 pound and 6. That's 277 pounds with inflation, or $390. They -just- wore the breastplate. With the same $100,000 you could put a hell of a lot more men on the field with a hell of a lot more guns aimed at a better protected but smaller army... And simply overwhelm them with numbers.</p><p></p><p>And as armies grew ever larger, and more men needed protection, less protection was provided because the men weren't worth the armor, which had to be -fitted- to the body, not just randomly passed out and re-used by others. "Check in the back I think we've got another box of XL Breastplates." "Where?" "I don't know! Check behind the shields we stopped using!"</p><p></p><p>And once you're at Napoleon's <span style="color: red"><em>freaking</em></span> 700,000 man armies in the 1700s, spending $1,350 per dude is just outrageous. Heck, even $390 is a bit much. Just let him die and hand his gun to another soldier because guns don't require fitting sessions.</p><p></p><p>They're one size fits all.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: red"><strong>Mod Edit:</strong> Language! ~Umbran</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8301882, member: 6796468"] But that also doesn't really bear out. Breastplates were common armor through the 1620s, but the costs of them were rising with the population of people who needed them. Equipment for a single Cuirassier in the 1620s cost 4 pounds and 10 shillings. That's with the breastplate, helmet, gorget, pauldrons, armguards, and vambraces as well as a gusset and half-greaves that covered the front of the legs. Before the decimalization in the 1700s, of course. To go back that far I had to look into the value of a pound in 1997 compared to 1600, then go per pound to modern day. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.maybole.org/history/archives/valueofthepound.htm[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.officialdata.org/uk/inflation/1997?amount=1[/URL] A 1600s pound in 1997 was worth 114 pounds. In 2021, a 1997 pound is worth 1.87 pounds. That Cuirassier costs 959 pound to equip. That's $1,350. The entire Kit of a Harquebusier only cost 1 pound and 6. That's 277 pounds with inflation, or $390. They -just- wore the breastplate. With the same $100,000 you could put a hell of a lot more men on the field with a hell of a lot more guns aimed at a better protected but smaller army... And simply overwhelm them with numbers. And as armies grew ever larger, and more men needed protection, less protection was provided because the men weren't worth the armor, which had to be -fitted- to the body, not just randomly passed out and re-used by others. "Check in the back I think we've got another box of XL Breastplates." "Where?" "I don't know! Check behind the shields we stopped using!" And once you're at Napoleon's [color=red][i]freaking[/i][/color] 700,000 man armies in the 1700s, spending $1,350 per dude is just outrageous. Heck, even $390 is a bit much. Just let him die and hand his gun to another soldier because guns don't require fitting sessions. They're one size fits all. [color=red][b]Mod Edit:[/b] Language! ~Umbran[/color] [/QUOTE]
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