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Battleplan Guides: Learn to Command

Step-by-step Battleplan guides: tutorials, first battle, drawing orders, executing plans, and fixing failed offensives.

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About the guides section

Practical how-to guides for new commanders: finish the tutorial missions, fight your first battle, draw and execute orders, command divisions and armies, and recover when a plan falls apart. Start with the tutorial guide if you are new, or jump to a specific system you are struggling with.

What you can learn

  1. Get past the learning curve

    Walkthroughs for the tutorials and your first battle, with the common stumbling points called out.

  2. Master the order systems

    Drawing multi-stage plans, timeline orders versus zone orders, and execution timing.

  3. Fix failing offensives

    Why plans fail, how to build alternates, and how to keep an attack supplied.

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