Written by Peter V. Dell'Orto, Dan Howard, and William H. Stoddard
Edited by Sean Punch Illustrated by Rod Reis

GURPS Line Editor: Sean Punch

40 pages. PDF. Price $7.99 Stock number 37-1662
Always Available – Click here to buy!

The Art Of War

The master warrior doesn't simply snatch up his sword and hurl himself into battle. He adapts his tools to his goals, knows his weaknesses as well as his strengths, and leads his allies to victory. Low-Tech Companion 2: Weapons and Warriors expands on the already-encyclopedic information on TL0-4 warfare in GURPS Low-Tech, adding:

• History. A concise rundown of how fighting evolved from the days of stone axes to the era of pike, shot, and cannon.
• Weapon and Armor Design. Rules for customizing and resizing melee weapons, shields, and armor to suit almost any purpose.
• Equipment Damage. Battles are hard on gear. Gamers after ultimate realism can track each item's state of repair down to the last Hit Point.
• Fortresses. A look everything from hasty ditches to walled cities . . . along with huge cannon and giant siege towers for defeating them!
• Transportation. Practical guidelines for getting infantry, cavalry, and naval forces from A to B.
• Warships. Vehicle stats for early naval vessels, from penteconters to frigates.

Regardless of the scale of the fighting in your campaign, Low-Tech Companion 2: Weapons and Warriors brings you everything you need to put the violence in a broader context.

Low-Tech Companion 2: Weapons and Warriors is a supplement to GURPS Low-Tech. The information on the military history, siegecraft, and warships would be useful in any campaign that involves historically accurate warfare.

• GURPS Low-Tech Companion 1: Philosophers and Kings provides the social underpinnings that give low-tech cultures the will and the way to take up arms against its neighbors.
• With GURPS Low-Tech Companion 3: Daily Life and Economics, you can bring life to your low-tech settings by detailing the everyday activities that make the world run.
• Pre-calculated piecemeal armor options make any gamer's life easier. Get GURPS Low-Tech: Instant Armor and fight faster!
• For ready-made protective garb from a variety of historical eras, get properly outfitted with GURPS Loadouts: Low-Tech Armor.
• GURPS Fantasy-Tech 1: The Edge of Reality looks at many low-tech military innovations that didn't quite work out in our reality, but might still be possible, somewhere.
• The call to battle is joined! GURPS Mass Combat provides an abstract way of resolving grand-scale conflicts.
• GURPS Crusades provides a real-world historical drama that was (at the time) the culmination of low-tech warfare.
• Warehouse 23 offers worldbooks, supplements, and adventures, in physical and digital formats, for GURPS – as well as many of our other game lines. Surf our site for the files you want . . . and get them instantly with a credit card or PayPal!

• See our GURPS Resources page for general GURPS tools.

Privacy Policy | Contact Us