He took a plate after his hostess did, and began filling it, but took a few bites before replying, clearly gathering his thoughts. "Back home, we would be referring to their technology level as just entering the modern age. From what I saw, there technology boost was all to war and manufacturing, with nothing to other technology fields like medicine, information exchange, or what have you. They have internal combustion, rifling, breech loading, and bullets, but only clips for most weapons. Their army is small, I am guessing at the absolute most they have five thousand soldiers total in their entire army, and that is most likely an extreme overestimation, two thousand is likely closer.<br/><br/>Internal security is pathetically undermanned, I literally walked among their most secure manufacturing areas and was only challenged once, and talked my way out of it. But most people wouldn't have been able to do that, so perhaps I am just used to a higher level of security from back home.<br/><br/>Vehicles lack suspension and mufflers, which would make it far more effective in both combat and scouting respectively, the first would make for a smoother ride, so the gunners would be able to control their weapons more, and the later would reduce engine noise significantly. Soldiers seem to be well trained from little I saw, but without focus on physical fitness. Most of that would be as the soldier in question felt needed, though the survivors of the kind of combat I know of figured out that is mandatory quickly. Less time in the open, better chance of survival. No indication of higher end technology, they have no air force, artillery is not significantly advanced past cannons from the little I saw, so their only major advantage is the fact that their soldiers can kill reliably out to several hundred feet, and they have a higher level of mobility over horses, though that is only on roads and open terrain. Their current vehicles would be useless in rough or mountainous terrain, if not an outright disadvantage.<br/><br/>Magic is still the best counter for them. Use heat metal on them, and their bullet powder will touch off, creating friendly fire incidents, or will cause the fuel the vehicles use to ignite, consuming the vehicle in a fire ball, killing the crew, and rendering the vehicle itself useless for any purpose other than as scrap metal. If you can modify the terrain, dig trenches about four feet deep and six feet wide. As the vehicles charge, they will hit the trench, begin to fall in, and then hit the lip of the other side, causing the vehicle to tumble end over end, the next impact with the ground killing the crew as they lack safety restraints, so they would shatter their skulls and spines as they tumbled about. If you have illusionary terrain spells, even better."<br/><br/>He paused and took another bite, considering the best option. "Also, buried forces, undead, constructs, elementals, anything that can get under the ground will have a significant advantage. Their weapons can't penetrate more than an inch or so of loose dirt, so the ground they are fighting on is a good dead area to exploit. Dragons can dive from above, rake a line from the side or behind with their breath weapon, and get up and out of range without significant risk to permanent harm or death, though they will have a couple leaks.<br/><br/>Their weapons are heavily sight based, so anything that nullifies sight will reduce their effectiveness. Best to attack at night, and use bright lights to destroy their night vision, leaving them seeing stars and nothing else."<br/><br/>Another bite, this time carefully chewing as he tried to think of a good way to put his last thought. "Sadly, technology is impossible to truly destroy, so what they have found out is here to stay. Unless you plan to kill every last person that came into contact with it, and even then you miss one set of plans and you failed. And that is assuming your patron's opposite number isn't actively handing out what these people know to her other groups."<br/><br/>He suddenly remembered something else, but his food was getting cold, so he took a couple more bites before continuing. "Also, fire is their nemesis. I sort of alluded to it with the heat metal spell, but setting soldiers on fire will do the same thing in a hurry."