Releasing Puppets to Reduce Partisan Activity

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I'm playing an 'on to Vladivostok!' game as the Germans, and I just annexed the USSR. Now I'm trying to figure out some way to get my partisan problems back under control, so I did a little experimentation with puppets.

And puppets seemed to make the TC drain on my provinces worse. I'm not sure if this is a CORE feature or a standard feature, but it is bothersome. It seems that when I release a puppet like the Transural Republic, the partisan activity goes up in the provinces I still hold enough to totally offset the drop in partisan activity I get from no longer worrying about those provinces. The only puppet that seems to make a slight improvement is Siberia.

Is this normal, and is it therefore impossible for the Germans to deal with partisan activity in Russia except by dropping a couple of Security divisions with attached police regiments in each province to keep the place under control?

 

[GeneralHannibal]

Couldn't you just release everything?

 

[ShadoWarrior]

Couldn't you just release everything?

Sure, if you don't mind losing the ICs that the areas produce.

 

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I'm playing an 'on to Vladivostok!' game as the Germans, and I just annexed the USSR. Now I'm trying to figure out some way to get my partisan problems back under control, so I did a little experimentation with puppets.

And puppets seemed to make the TC drain on my provinces worse. I'm not sure if this is a CORE feature or a standard feature, but it is bothersome. It seems that when I release a puppet like the Transural Republic, the partisan activity goes up in the provinces I still hold enough to totally offset the drop in partisan activity I get from no longer worrying about those provinces. The only puppet that seems to make a slight improvement is Siberia.

Is this normal, and is it therefore impossible for the Germans to deal with partisan activity in Russia except by dropping a couple of Security divisions with attached police regiments in each province to keep the place under control?

Your dissent rises each time you liberate a nation, that is why partisan activity goes up in the provinces you still hold. Lower your dissent and all will be fine.

 

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Your dissent rises each time you liberate a nation, that is why partisan activity goes up in the provinces you still hold. Lower your dissent and all will be fine.

Thank you. That explains it.

I did not actually know that there was a correlation between partisan activity and dissent.

 

[ShadoWarrior]

I wasn't aware that liberating nations increased dissent. It seems counterintuitive.

 

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I wasn't aware that liberating nations increased dissent. It seems counterintuitive.

The dissent increase varies depending on how democratic your nation is- democracies get only a small dissent hit for releasing puppets, but totalitarian dictatorships like Nazi Germany get a lot.

My theory is that this reflects the administrative chaos created when you try to set up a new government, and the discontent of hardliners in your own country who want you to administer the conquered territory directly.

 

[ShadoWarrior]

Okay. Makes sense. When playing as Germany, the only puppet I ever release is Croatia via the event. I've always felt that I can manage the use of ICs much better than any puppet can. And with all those nice SS recruitment events lowering dissent in various occupied areas, I don't really worry too much about restless natives.

 

[dec152000]

Hi,

Simon is dead on about the Dissent. The annoying thing is it is hard code so we can't really do much about it even if we want to.

mm