To my mind partisans are a bad idea. The Axis has it tough enough already. I realize that it may add a certain dimension of realism, but so what? I mean, if we really want to get technical, then the German player should have to give up a part of his income every turn to spend on Hitler’s crazy, evil, and diabolical Holocaust.
But if one insists on adding partisans, it should cut both ways. The Japanese should get extra men on enemy occupied islands to represent those die-hard soldiers, some of whom didn’t surrender until years after the war was over. And the Germans should get partisans to represent to SS Werewolves who harassed the Allies after the occupation of former Nazi lands. Or at least, if the Allies get partisans for free every turn, then the Germans should get free Gestapo every turn to combat them.
And what about all of the unhappy folks in India and the Middle East who were actively supporting the Axis cause and couldn’t wait for England to get run out of those areas?