WEAPONS OF WAR

Spears are great, but how about axes, picks, swords?

Requires either this:

• Acquiring a few dozen good swords, battleaxes, maces, flails, warhammers, etc. (Value 3)

Or all of these:

• A smith, with a full staff and upgraded tools (Value 2)
• A cartload of good iron ore (Value 2)
• 4 seasons of work by the smith (4 boxes)

And then:

• A veteran warrior, able to command a crowd
• Pulling Together to train the militia with these new weapons, requiring a season and 1 Surplus

When you meet the requirements, increase Defenses by 1 and add "Weapons of War" to the Fortifications list. Each spring, the village must expend 1 Surplus to maintain and replace the town's weapons.

Henceforth, when you Outfit from Stonetop or Have What You Need after doing so, you can treat maces, flails, battleaxes, warhammers, and all types of swords as common items, as if they were already on the inventory inserts. Battleaxes and swords have "x piercing," where x is the steading's current Prosperity.