Also he mentioned that the river is connected to the occean so we are
basicly just a little bit farther away from everything on the occean.
And there's a city, Narsis, where that river meets the ocean.
If you were a freighter captain, would you take your ship to the established major trade hub on the ocean, or would you sail past that trade hub, risk taking your ship on a river, all while sailing or rowing against the current, in order to get to a village with only 100 people in it?
I'm aware of the city. We would be using our own ships for trade so the whims of forgeign ship captains is of no concern. Also I was talking about launching ships to export food to other places, so we could get a higher price for it. No one would be coming to us, if we were importing anything we would have our ships go there after they have sold their food and buy whatever we want there.
It's not going to be a huge port or ship either, just a big enough ship to be occean worthy and a big enough port to properly dock it.
You could easily get simple weapons and armour for your
small militia for 25 coins. Spears and a wooden shield that is.
Starting to guess that gold coins here are not really coins, but rather, you're using them as a way of abstracting effort into numbers. If that's the case, then sure...buy the weapons and shields. It just seems strange to me to imagine handing over 10% the tithe on the food output of a 100 man agricultural village worth of gold...assuming one ounce coins, that's a pound an a half of gold...to pay for wooden spears and shields when I can look out my window right now and see enough trees in my own backyard to do the same.
Trying to get a handle on the economy here. 25 coins for 5 spears and 5 shields...so one wooden spear is worth about two and a half gold coins? Since enough wood to build an entire building worth granary large enough to store 4 years worth of food tithes cost us 50 coins...I guess it's the crafting that's the majority of the cost? So a craftsman capable of producing one spear a day, 5 days a week would be able to produce 650 gold coins worth of spears in a year? Almost double the combined trade+food annual income of a noble in charge of a 100 man farming village?
If so we're wasting our time with farming and we should start training spear makers.
Yeah 25 gold coins for a wooden sheild and spear is not right. It should be like 5 coins for such cheap equipment. If we continue with Lordbuckets above equations we would have one spearmaker producing the equivlent output of 37 peasents.
Because our average peasent makes 17.5 gold coins of value a year.(divide annual earnings by population, tehn 10x because we only get 10% of what they make.)
37 peasents because 650/17.5=37.142 etc.
Thats ridiculous. The average American makes $44,389 so 37 times that would be $23,836,893. I don't think a spear and wooden sheild maker would be in the top 1%, even in a society as unequal as your average fuedal society. A high quality weapons maker, hell yeah, but some guy who makes such simple weapons, hell no.