Partisan Creation

[The Red Baron]

Section 17.1.4 of manual details certain partisan creation and recruitment limitations, such as no partisans may be created or recruited from hex coordinates where Y>15 & X<100. Minsk has coordinates Y=57 & X=68. Since this location satisfies the condition above, why does Minsk have a garrison requirement; same goes for Brest-Litovsk where Y=68 & X=51? I am currently running version 1.04.36.

[Stoat]

Good eyes! 17.1.4. says:

... "Partisans may not be created or recruit in the following areas (by x, y map coordinates): X <50, Y >94 and X <70, Y >115 and X <75, and Y >15 and X <100. In addition, Partisans are much less likely to be formed in the area x<70 and y<45."

Analysis:

a) X <50, Y <94: This says that partisans may not be created south and west of a point in E Hungary in the Carpathians, more or less all of Yugoslavia & Albania, about the SW 75% of Hungary, the W 40% of Rumania & Bulgaria. Seems fine. I think the intent of this box is not to say that there were no partisans in Yugo e.g., but rather that this is outside the scope of the game (e.g. forces in the Balkans are frozen).

b) X <70, Y >115: this box adds the rest of Bulgaria & the rest of Rumania except the NE part w/ Iashi, Piatr-Neamts, etc. Seems fine.

c) X <75 (and Y >15??): There is a missing Y-coordinate in these 4 points, so one's not sure whether Y>15 goes with the preceding X<75 or the subsequent X <100. If we look at (X 75, Y 15), a point in the Gulf of Finland, the rule no partisans in X <75 and Y <15 (NB: not Y >15 as printed!) would more or less mean no partisans in Finland. This makes sense, so I guess this is the rule and what the manual should say. This leaves us...

d) X <100: I think the Y-coordinate is missing for this point. Looking at the line where X = 100, that is, the whole map west of Kalinin, Dneprpetrovsk, hmmn, I dunno. I think you want partisans in White Russia & the Ukraine. The previous box, if true (X <75 & Y >15), by not being bigger, kind of implies you want partisans in the Baltic states. In the north, observe that X = 100 is more or less the eastern extent of Karelia, so this 4th bounding box might say "no partisans in Karelia 'cos it's too damn cold"!

I think that just one bounding box rather than two to cover off the Finns saying, "no partisans where X <100 and Y <15" would make sense. In any case, good catch, HTH, & the manual entry for 17.1.4. should be updated.