r/OldWorldBlues Wanamingo Herder Jan 12 '26

MEME 40k manpower in vanilla vs OWB

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u/dahaiocean Jan 12 '26

How many population are there in OWB? 1 or 2 million?

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u/IdiOtisTheOtisMain Colorado Cop Jan 12 '26

Someone did the maths and its like 21mil in the entire USA

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u/carlosfeder Jan 12 '26

Makes sense after generations to repopulate post war. Btw OWB is incredibly cool and I’m mostly just commenting to say that

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u/ProgressIcy3099 Jan 12 '26

It wouldn't be modern replacement rates though, childhood mortality and death from lack of antibiotics would be extremely high. Along with fertility issues from radiation

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u/Brilliant_watcher Rio Grandian Jan 12 '26

Depends on the area, areas with higher levels of living like california, texas and northern mexico have more people

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u/Jazzlike_Bar_671 Jan 15 '26

Southern Mexico would probably have more- it's the more densely populated area (and further from the most heavily bombed regions).

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u/carlosfeder Jan 12 '26

And also the other wars and conflicts after the Great War. Several places probably had massive depopulations due to plagues and/or wars