After thinking about it some more I'll put my money on the nuclear
detonation method. The advantages of it is that the coarseness and
excessive weight of the lowtech system can be offset by the brute force.
The disadvantage of it is that you need a number of nukes and I'm not sure
about the minimum tech requirements for nukes. I suspect however that you
need nitrated explosives of some form, and the extraction of 235 will
be a *real* bitch.
They are bound to have to conscript the locals for labour, probably
by posing as gods, but this carries with it its own special problems:
Different priests might worship different characters and any hint of
differences in opinion between the PC's might lead to religious wars.
It is also possible that the priests of one faction will try to assassinate
the gods that they percieve are enemies to their own god.
(Not so far fetched as it might sound: in many polytheistic religions
the gods wern't immortal, infallible and infinitly mightier than humans)
And humans are smart and adaptible. Sooner or later technology will start
to leak out and then all bets are off.
- -bertil-
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