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Originally Posted by dcarson
S. M. Stirling in his Islands books argues that Victorian level tech can be maintained by a small city population if you can get the raw materials from less tech locals. The examples seem reasonable.
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Indeed.
My wacky Nazis, of course, absolutely refuse to give up smokeless powder. Then again, by now they'll number in the tens of thousands and have slaves in the hundreds of thousands, so I don't find it implausible that they could maintain their TL7 small arms and make enough ammo for them to allow their most important formations to have what weapons they need.