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 ThePrimordial wrote:
The first weapons ever designed solely to kill other people were iron.


Nope ... not even close. Iron is a fairly recent useful material. Iron is strong but steel is better, the idea for steel came from bronze and brass. These were made from alloying copper, which reigned supreme for like 1,600 years IIRC. The first weapons designed to solely to kill humans was more than likely stone, which is very brittle.

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 OIIIIIIO wrote:
 ThePrimordial wrote:
The first weapons ever designed solely to kill other people were iron.


Nope ... not even close. Iron is a fairly recent useful material. Iron is strong but steel is better, the idea for steel came from bronze and brass. These were made from alloying copper, which reigned supreme for like 1,600 years IIRC. The first weapons designed to solely to kill humans was more than likely stone, which is very brittle.



Ah, but what is the riddle of steel?

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 Psienesis wrote:
... since the Necrons predate anything Humanity has ever done, it's not the function of it in weapons that makes brass a color favored by Khorne. It's most likely because it looks good against a red and/or black background.


IIRC, don't the Necrons also predate the Chaos Gods themselves, and so have little/no influence on their formation at all? A lot of the fluff talks about how they draw from sentient emotion, and a big play is made of how a great many of the mortal servants of Chaos are human - and so the larger portion of the emotion that the Gods feed on is human, too, I would have thought. Hence why they seem to reflect human stuff.

I mean there's also the fact that Khorne the fictional construct was written by authors, and they may have liked the idea of the Blood God favouring one of the earliest metals used for weapons. Here, I think the author's intent is a much bigger factor than any in-universe explanation.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/637329/7626739.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/637329/7626739.page GMT Re:Why does Khorne have a thing for Brass? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/637329/7626820.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/637329/7626820.page GMT Re:Why does Khorne have a thing for Brass?

...is because it's so metal.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/637329/7626854.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/637329/7626854.page GMT Re:Why does Khorne have a thing for Brass?
Brass has bra and ass in it, the big dawg loves some brass.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/637329/7626992.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/637329/7626992.page GMT Re:Why does Khorne have a thing for Brass?
 unmercifulconker wrote:
What is all this reasoning of practicality of brass.

Brass has bra and ass in it, the big dawg loves some brass.


And just like that, we have our answer.

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Bronze was an orange-ish alloy of copper and (usually) tin. Bronze was tougher and harder than pure copper. It was used extensively for tools, weapons and armor in the (surprise!) Bronze Age.

Bronze is actually harder than iron, but it requires trade to create because tin and copper deposits rarely occur together. Iron deposits are generally easier to find than copper and tin. Iron can also be worked soft and tempered at the end of the forging/smithing process, which is very attractive when crating complex shapes that hold an edge/point.

Actual brass is a yellowish alloy of copper and zinc. It's more malleable (meaning it deforms under compressive stress; it can be beaten into new shapes) than bronze, which makes it less suitable for weapons and armor. Brass is primarily used for decoration, musical instruments and nautical applications because it resists corrosion.

Because of the variable composition of bronze there is some overlap with brass, but real brass isn't commonly used for weaponry.

So yeah, yellow looks better with red than orange does. And there are steampunk influences at work. And 'brass' sounds sharper and harsher than 'bronze' in English. Artistic license is artistic.

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