- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Roderick and Ellen Robertson"
<rjremr_at_s...> wrote:
> > > >In 1610, there are somewhere around 20,000 soldiers (at least
on
> > > >paper - the real number is significantly less) in occupied
Dragon
> > > >Pass and Prax. That costs about 120,000 lunars a year.
> > >
> > > 1,200,000 lunars surely, maybe as low as 900,000 if the pay
for the
> > > missing troops is abstracted while still in the heartlands.
> >
> > My assumption is that a Lunar soldier is paid about 60 lunars in
> > coin on average. The actual source material (Mark and Martin's
> > article on the Lunar economy) suggests that a Lunar soldier is
paid
> > a little less than this (1 lunar a week or 52 lunars a year).
> > 20,000 soldiers is about 120,000 lunars a year. Give or take a
fair
> > amount (again these are crude figures).
>
> Err, I think Donald was pointing out that you're missing a zero in
your
> calculations (or have an extra one somewhere): 120,000 / 60 =
2,000.
D'oh. I usually do this sort of stuff in Excel!
Thanks Roderick.