[Glorantha] benchmarks

[Donald R. Oddy]

In message <844527.32475.qm at web27213.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Jane Williams writes:

>Looks that way, I agree. Let's see:
>Humakti 10-thane: CC 5W, standard-bearer: 15W,
>100-thane: CC 10W2. How does that compare?
>
>HQ book:
>Heortling weaponthane: 17 to 18W.
>Heortling clan champion: 10W to 10W2.
>Barbarian Adventures says of a clan champion:
>Typical Abilities: Close Combat (or other appropriate
>ability) 10W3
>
>Hmm. There's a mastery difference there, which does
>not make me happy. And the idea that a senior officer
>of professional Humakti warriors should not be as good
>as a mere *clan* champion: not even tribal champion!
>is worrying. Even if you assume the clan champion is
>also Humakti, that seems wrong.

Looks like an error in BA. All the other examples of clan 
notables are 10W2 and the tribal war temple has a leader 
at 10W3.

There's also the fact that a Humakti 100 thane might only
be in charge of six others. In practice I would expect a
typical clan warband to be about as strong as a Humakti 
"hundred". According to the figures I've used in the past
that'll be 50-60 men.

>I'm ending up feeling very confused about the whole
>thing, especially the differences between HQ and BA.

Assuming the above error the only discrepancy is BA using
the highest value of the HQ range as typical.

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Donald Oddy
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