The people to the north worship a deity who protects them from modern armaments...

>the people to the north worship a deity who protects them from modern armaments, but they themselves have to swear off of using them to receive this protection. or anyway, for religious reasons, even if they can use them, they typically don't.
>this means they are effectively immune to projectiles fired from guns (i know this is a broad and arbitrary category, but this is a thought experiment), and immune to explosions from modern bombs (or... maybe all bombs idk).
>you can't for whatever reason nuke them or use biological warfare against them, maybe because these havent been invented, their god protects them, or because it isn't honorable or something.
>the deity also protects the towns and farms from being bombarded from the air and artillery, but they can be destroyed from up close.
>flamethrowers, flachettes fired from guns, etc. are somewhat effective, but they are highly resistant to them.
>they can however be killed as usual by the weapons such as swords, spears, bow and arrow, etc.
theres probably other loopholes i'm not thinking of, but thats the gist of it.
how would this play out in a world war in which only these people are protected in this way, and there are other nations fighting who CAN use modern armaments against each other.

maybe their planes, tanks, and ships are also protected, but they joust with them with holy lances? idk. just something i was thinking about earlier.

Just use your bayonets on your guns to kill them.

This is a shitty picture that should stop being posted

The answer is simple, get our deity to give our guns and bombs a blessing that lets us pierce their divine protection.

If we're playing with divine fuckery, this.

If not, blockade, spray chemicals on them and their crops from air, poison the water supply, wait until they starve. Use modern riot gear and armor if necessary.

Or just fucking roll them over and fuck up their infrastructure with tanks. You can't do shit against a tank even with modern weapons unless you're specifically equipped and trained for that.

"no"

Define "somewhat effective".
Do you want the players to have to play stuff that their characters aren't even suited for? The route your going is just gonna be gunfighters swinging swords against swordsmen which is super dumb imo.

They would still get utterly crushed. Modern weapons are nice, but modern -logistics- would be a nightmare. Just one side having trains and trucks available means they could bring 50 men to the field for every 1 low tech soul, and the factories and foundries of the high-tech people could give every man good steel armor and a fine quality weapon.

Y'know
Not all thought experiments should be continued

>Do you want the players to have to play stuff that their characters aren't even suited for? The route your going is just gonna be gunfighters swinging swords against swordsmen which is super dumb imo.
i wasn't really thinking about an rpg so much as just factions.
i wasn't thinking one side would be sworn off of technology so much as just immune to it while fighting. they could still have planes trains and automobiles. just can't be shot.
suck my dick

A gun that shoots swords

This OP

Tanks are the ultimate fuck you to everything that doesn't have at least a cannon

Vroom vroom

Cant hurt them with gun? Fine arrow launchers made with modern tech ala heavy metal the movie, your armor is heavy low carbon steel, ours is high carbon steel and polymers, we have modern vaccines and foods, your eating crap and getting sick from poo in the water, lets hope your god protects your horse's, cows, sheep...ect. cause we are shooting those.
Night vision and thermals mean we own the night. Scuba systems mean we apear out of rivers from a distence.
Pretty sure if a modern power wanted to make balistas and catapult they would be vastly better.
Basicly you would atill be steam rolled by modern production transportion and support systems.
Probably have an edge in old world fighting techniques. But just in infant mortality rates our losses would effect us less.

t. someone who can't swordfight

Yeah now she has shorter reach and will probably get stabbed in the fucking face

It's going for 'Realistic' armour and technique but has an
>Open face
>Easily grabbed ponytail
>Weak stance
>No Sheild
>Sculpted Breasts, doubtless weaker than a normal curiass
>Half-Swording when she isnt close enough to hit - and the opponent is blatantly telegraphing he's going to strike at range
>Has somehow suffered a wound underneath her undented helmet.

Not even trying to find way around your arbitrary as hell wishful worldbuilding.
The amount of things that would be arbitrarily banned mean that campaign would just be plain annoying as hell.
If you want melee with guns just play flintlock era or personal shielding era or whatever similar devices letting melee close in to ranged troops. There literally hundreds of ways to make it work by changing tech, terrain, mentalities that the whole god protects seems extra silly.

Also since gods are that tangible in their powers why would the tech people not have a god that lets their tech work on the vintage vikings ?
Especially since tech would give them a much bigger member count, generally making their god stronger.

Are you that same autist that went on a massive spergout about how hitting his friends with sticks made him an expert on swordfighting and halfswording and mordhauing were all a massive joke conspiracy that everyone collectively got together to invent and were never actually used?

>No Sheild

I like how you think you know anything but then typed this.

All right, so now the modern form of hand-to-hand combat is utilized, and these guys suddenly realize our form of protection and weapon material is vastly superior, and the techniques to use them have been refined to a terrifying point. They still don't stand a chance.

Chemical Weapons.
Done.

Aha, you have fallen into their trap.

Modern Steel techiques make swords and armor created today MODERN armaments, so even fighting then with sword and shield, they are immune to your blades.

Never fight an enemy with an exact wording clause.

Triple stack of barbed wire around the village. Divert the river, replace with your sewers. Blast music all day everyday, install floodlights, remove their restful-nights.
Also modern composite bows, onagers and crossbows.
Also modern armor materials against old as fuck swords.
Also modern transportation.
Also modern medicine.
And even if they have a reverse Ork field were all the tech stop working and modern materials devolve into medieval crap; modern medicine reduces infant mortality to near nothing and modern production techniques mean a much larger part of the population can be mobilized while also being better fed and lodged in the field.
That setting is retarded.

This is pretty dumb user. You might want to rethink this.

>Modern X against them

Just to point out, the Divine protection Says they are protected from Modern weapons. So the Modern Composite bows, Onagers and Crossbows don't work.

Secondly, EVERYTHING you pointed out there, if it works against them, Can be used against them.

So basically, you're expecting people with northern divine protection, to stay stupid when the reality is, they'd just be advanced as the world, but with a magical stop clause in what Warfare CAN do.

Literally build a wall.

Then sheer numbers.

I don't give a damn, it's 7 billion to a village that can no longer advance because it would make themselves modern.
We could literally drown them in bodies before even touching our population limits.

Oh and this works. Modern armaments?
How 'bout modern defenses? Those still work. In fact, just to push it, automated robots. They're not armaments, they're separate entities used for defense.
Now watch those religious folks get mowed down.

>Modern Armaments

A robot is just a programable weapon, so it won't work. Jesus man think this through.

And if it does work, what stops the Northerners using Robots.

Now you have magic Vikings Riding Robots, nice job.

>these guys suddenly realize our form of protection and weapon material is vastly superior
This has been discussed to death already. Modern steel isn't that much better for sword-making. You want more resilience, you sacrifice flexibility etc.

>the techniques to use them have been refined to a terrifying point
That's retarded. No one trains swordfighting for war anymore.

And yes, obviously I'm not actually talking about swords, but whatever medieval weapon we choose to use.

>what stops the Northerners using Robots.

Really? Their silly geas would absolutely annihilate any attempt at institutionalized research in their culture. You can't research things properly if you're terrified that a god is looking over your shoulder ready to smite you at the slightest fuck-up.

Mind you, the modern world would still win, just not because of these stupid reasons.

Flamethrowers mounted on IFVs or APCs move in to burn their fields, autocannon grade flechettes are used for clearing their field armies.

>Modern World

There is no Vs the Modern world here. The scenario is "Northern tribes have divine protection from most modern armaments and weapon systems for in tern sacrificing most modern armaments and weapon systems"

under the rules of their geas, everything that can be used against them, in turn, they can use.

Depends on if the absolution of the protection is nationwide or personal.

If it's personal, I'd easily see some scientists giving it up for experimentation. Hell, OP says they might not even NEED to give up modern technology, they just prefer NOT using modern weapons.

From the OP
>but they themselves have to swear off of using them to receive this protection. or anyway, for religious reasons, even if they can use them, they typically don't.

No, no they can't use modern weapons.

And in turn modern weapons cannot be used against them.

So at what point are we assuming the Northerner's non-Weapon faculties suddenly stay shit?

Why does the lack of modern weapons mean they lack Penicillin or modern medicine? Or modern Steel techniques?

>Modern steel isn't that much better for sword-making

...why are you saying objectively wrong things? Old smiths would give up a testicle for shit like L6 or INFINI

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