Any advice for learning the game?

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Aelicity
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Any advice for learning the game?

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I'm fairly new to games like this. I've learnt the gameplay basics and feel comfortable shuffling the counters around, attack/defend, how to do manual air missions etc. My problem is more psychological and I feel overwhelmed by the size of the grand campaign. I've completed many scenarios, nearly all of the smaller ones which are less than 50 turns long. I would really like some advice, especially for the early turns 1-6 for either side, to overcome the intimidation of it all.

Thank you!
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Greetings,
Just the fact that you sunk your teeth into this monster of a game is half the battle. I also recently purchased this monstrosity and I’m hooked. Have you watched any of the YouTube tutorials? They are very useful, reduce some of the anxiety and they are also entertaining. For myself, and I work full time, I do an army group a night, chunk plays, I am getting more proficient, my game play is becoming faster, and I’m in no hurry. Perhaps, this would be helpful to you. Good luck, stay with it, and give an update.
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Colorcoding the Corps HQs helped me the most at the start. Then just keep the colors together and move one after the other.
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Start with smaller scenarios if you feel overwhelmed.
Velike Luki and Road to Minsk are good introductions to learn some mechanics!
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As above.

Read AARs

Read the player guides.

There are a couple of guides that give a step by step instructions on how to create T1 pockets for the Axis. At times a touch tedious but it will teach you movement and combat.

Air War - for the start ignore but do perfect recon and aerial supply first.

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I made a lot of dedicated tutorial videos on my YT channel. Some of them might be outdated but for most of them, what I said a couple of years ago still holds true: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLP ... K9I/videos and https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLP ... Z7c/videos
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Teo41_ITA wrote: Fri Sep 18, 2026 4:21 pm I made a lot of dedicated tutorial videos on my YT channel. Some of them might be outdated but for most of them, what I said a couple of years ago still holds true: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLP ... K9I/videos and https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLP ... Z7c/videos
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