Talk:Sorcerer King's Rescue Team/@comment-33998180-20180711194717/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180712024857

It's surprisingly difficult to halve a large human population spread out in rural densities with small cities that don't have any modern technology.

My guess is that the urban population could have been cut drastically, but that would be a pretty small fraction of the total population. And even for the urban population, they would have rural knowledge and skills to a far greater degree than is common in modern urban populations. Meaning at a pinch they could live off the land while hiding from the invaders.

This would be a harsh existence, and it would involve many deaths from starvation and disease...but the New Worlders are, by and large, pretty used to dealing with that anyway. Only the very most privileged of them would be as helpless in such an extremity as modern people from developed nations in our world.