Couple of quick questions from a newcomer

[unmerged(310092)]

First of all hello to everyone, I bought the game a few days ago and its my first experience with HoI games, I'm trying to get a feel a general feel of the system so be patient

I've read the manual and searched the forum before posting and I didnt quite find a simple and/or specific answer to my doubts

I started with France in 1936 basic scenario and I'm fiddling with a bit of options to see how things work

1) To get a good increase in IC building more factories seems the obvious way to go, but is there some kind of economic advantage in concentrating them in a single province (e.g. Paris)? or spreading them over in more than one has the same effect? Also whats with infrastructure? Should I concentrate and build it only in major provinces?

2) Partisans and dissent. From the manual I got the idea that they are 2 different things, in a sense that partisans dont affect national provinces.
But after the civil war in spain event I decided to help the republicans and dissent - as I expected - rised quite a bit but in the form of partisans! Now all my national provinces in france (not the north africans) have 5-10% partisan activity, is that supposed to be correct? Infact if I use garrisons they suppress the partisans (seems kind of weird to suppress small political dissent in your own country with military divisions) , can I also dimish this effect with the consumer goods option?

 

[Talar]

1 - Yes there is a concentration effect which means you get a bonus for putting lots of industries together in one province (but don't forget to also put in some AA when you do this since it will also be a bomber magnet..)
Infrastructure gives a bonus to industrial efficiency so it pays off more to improve infra in your industry centers. But it also gives a bonus to resource production so infra improvements in high-resource provinces could also be worthwhile.

 

[mcganyol]

1 - I agree with Talar.
If u only need ic, build industries to provinces, already has a lot (concentration bonus is an important factor).
If a province base industry is somewhere above 6 or 7 and the terrain is preferable - plains, forest, urban (or maybe hills) - its begin to be worthwhile to build infra there too (in a pure ic point of view).
BUT infra has another effect, as already stated it's increases resource production. So there are some provinces which are predestined to be an industrial center.
Be cautios tough, every factory you build conusmes 5manpower and every 10%infra improvement consmes 1manpower! avoid overproducing ic and infra as u can't disband them, and u can find yourself with lots of ic but not enough manpower to field a potent army.
Its up to you where you build factories and infra and depends on your country, current situation, and your strategy but as a rule of thumb the best provinces are already has ic and high infra, are resource-rich (metal and rare usually are more important than energy and oil), has terrain favorable for fast infra construction, and in the foreseeable future won't be threated by enemy invasion even better if strategic bombers won't be able to reach it.
(the capital is nearly always a preferable province)

2 - partisans and dissent are two different things but they are linked in game terms. all provinces has a base revolt risk it depends mostly on your diplomatic sliders (open-closed society, authoritian-democaracy) and the state of the province (core, owned, occupied). (there are other factors like manpower, the more mp a province provides the higher the partsan activity will be). the base revolt risk in your cores should be 0%. Partisans lower the province maximum effectivness, which affects everything there, ic, supply throughput (ese), resources. Partisan activity can only be supressed with military (the unit supression ability is the key).
Dissent increases your partisan activity everywhere (even in core provinces), so dissent affects you in an indirect way, as it increases partisan activity resulting in lowering provinces maximum effectivness.
So the answer for your question is yes if u have dissent u gonna need divisions even in your cores to eliminate partisan activity. You can decrease dissent with spending more money to consumer goods.