Partisan Problem

[75Pak]

I really enjoy this game but some of the aspects of the game strike me as highly unrealistic... For instance, Army Group South had very few problems with partisans in its area of operations, particularly when compared with Army Group Center or Army Group North.

I am getting about 1 Partisan unit appearing against me each turn, and at one point I had 3 separate partisan units to deal with. They move around fast and they are moving across rail-lines.

If I were the commander of Army Group South and had this sort of a partisan problem I might have considered massacring, expelling, or interning most of the adult male population, at least in the areas critical for my supply line.

There's no option to ruthlessly suppress the civilian population.... All I am able to do is send Axis minor forces and security divisions to deal with the partisans on a "whack-a-mole" basis, going after each group as it pops up.

Isn't there some way to recruit a third of the Ukraine as cossacks, the one-third they are related to will work and support my occupation, and the cossacks can massacre the remaining third?


I don't control Kazakhstan [yet] so en masse deportation to Kazakhstan is out of the question, but why not northern Norway or Bulgaria?


How do you handle overly restive partisans?