Question about production

[jadam12]

Greetings,
I'll be able to buy a game or two in a few days once I finally get my proper credit card. I have been checking these boards for a long time now as well as others (TOAW3 for example) and this game seems very interesting for me.
I understand from some previous posts that towns, cities, capitols, etc. give you production points, but what about manpower and resources? Are they abstracted to these production points?
Should the german player consider economical questions in the grand campaign (I'm not entirely sure, but is there a scenario covering the entire WW2 in europe?)?
Does oil, rare materials and other resources (or the lack of it) play any part in the game?

Thanks

[SMK-at-work]

Manpower and resources are not in any of the scenarios that ship with the game, but apparently they can be designed in if you are clever enough.

[jadam12]

Great, thanks SMK-at-work for the swift reply.
This game looks better and better with every AAR and review read.