Re: Re: A smallish Big Table.

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_...>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:50:32 +0100 (BST)

> From: "Jeff" <jeff.kyer_at_...>

> One thing to remember about cattle wealth is that the more you have,
> the less you need to be really wealthy as you can afford to slaughter
> more of them and you need less of their milk, meat, hides for your own
> household's use.

This is true, I'm thinking in terms of "effective equivalent wealth" though, rather than yer actual coos, necessarily.

> I'd say 5 Wealth is 1 cow (or a few sheep... can't forget sheep)
>
> And a Clan Chief should have a wealth of... 10w2 and he's not going to
> have 250 cows. Probably more like 100-200.

15W, according to HW:RiG. (Apologies if ST updates this, I don't have it to hand.)

> Tribal Chief gets a lot of cows each year in tribute (150/clan x 6?
> clans= 900 cows but he has to run the tribe from that. But his wealth
> should be 10w3 or so...?

10W2.

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