Quick Question:
What do feudal worlds use for their PDF? Surely not anything advanced, but it'd have to be something sufficient to counteract all the threats the Imperium faces.
And when modern armies like the Imperial Guard fight on such worlds, how do they prevent cross-cultural contamination?
Pretty much the same thing as IG I think. Though a PDF wouldn't typically have a super heavy unless the planet is pretty rich,
What's with that shitty photoshop? It's fucking hideous.
>What's with that shitty photoshop
It's for an equally shitty forced meme
An older IG codex goes into this. There's bits about how on more primitive worlds it's not uncommon for PDF and IG regiments drawn from there to be armed with muskets, black powder weapons, or even swords/spears
So they just make up in mass what they lack in technology?
I guess that works.
They don't really have much choice.
They have to have a PDF to defend themselves as there's so much danger in the galaxy. At the same time the Adeptus Terra won't give them any aid unless they're in immediate and dire peril, and even that could take years to get there.
So just form some forces, give em spears because that's all you gots, and hope for the best.
Many feudal worlds have a system not disimilar to Marine recruiting worlds, where people 'chosen' for duty are taken to isolated PDF fortresses and compounds. They're equipped with modern gear (by Imperial standards) - lasguns/autoguns, some kind of body armour, chimeras and utility vehicles, maybe even some tanks and heavy artillery.
Other feudal worlds simply won't have a proper PDF at all. If for some reason the world is considered worth defending, off-world forces would be brought in.
>cross-cultural contamination
The Imperium doesn't care much about that unless there's some benefit to keeping it in its 'natural' state, like a feral world being used as a recruiting ground for the Astartes. Feudal worlds normally are worlds that the Imperium doesn't consider very important. If the world WAS important - e.g important resources or a strategic position - the Imperium would simply march in and build enclaves and shrines, and over the centuries the feudal society would usually get 'teched up', either deliberately by the Administratum or by osmiosis from cast-off tech.
The PDF's job is not to defend a world against invasion by real actual galactic threats like orks or 'nids or whatever. That's what IG and space marines are for. The PDF's job is to maintain order on the planet itself. The only gear they need is enough to keep up with organized crime and internal rebellions.
Why didn't you ask this in the 40k general.
Why did you decide to use a spammed troll image.
Why did you ask a question that can be answered just by googling "feudal world 40k".