[zovs66]

Awesome! You'll need to spend some time playing the game to get a feel of how things work, both scenarios and campaign games will help. Then you'll need to spend some time tinkering with maps and then tinkering with scenarios.

Some suggestions:

• Play the game a lot it will give you a feel for how things should/could or would go.
• Tinker with maps, start small, otherwise you'll be overwhelmed. Create some random auto generated maps with the extended map editor (small 40x40, 80x80, etc.) and based on year, month, opponents, location, and some other things watch how the AI generates the maps and then go in and tinker with that, also play with the map generator and the various values (read up in the manual) and also tinker with how the AI uses region codes to adjust the map when doing auto random generator stuff.
• Don't be afraid to open up other scenarios and maps and look at how things got setup, set, deployed and created.
• Make small test scenarios to learn, nothing wrong with creating a small 40x40 one company against another company and setting up way points for the AI and then testing it out to see how it feels.
• Test your creations.
• Test your creations.
• Test your creations.
• Have someone else test your creations.
• Have fun.