Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire/Weapons and armors

Each character can equip up to four items: a weapon, a shield, an armor and a necklace.

Also, characters have four equipment slots that are unused in the game: headgear, footwear, left ring and right ring. These are "leftovers" from the Ultima 6 game engine.

Weapons
Modern weapons can only be used by modern men (Avatar, Rafkin, Jimmy, Johann). Two-handed weapons cannot be used with a shield. Anti-Myrmidex weapons deal damage to Myrmidex only.

The attack value of the weapons is approximate, and based on the ranking of the manual. W. stands for "weight"; it is especially relevant when it may limit the amunt of ammunition that can be carried.

1 Eodonian stone is approximately 1 worldwide kilogram (kg), or 0.16 US-only stones (s.). Indeed, an average character with strength 20 can fight and carry 40 kg (6.3 US stones) of items, but it's very unlikely that he could travel and fight carrying 40 US stones (250 kg) of items.

Shields
Shields can be equipped only with a one-hand weapon.

Necklaces
Apparently, necklaces have no effect. Still, there is an equipment slot specific for them.