Battleplan Beginner Guide: Prepare Your First Operation

How should you approach your first operation?

Treat your first battle as a command exercise: prepare a usable army, choose a manageable objective and check the result of each order. You direct formations while subordinate units carry out their tasks. Start with the tutorials before attempting to coordinate an entire front.

The release announcement describes an operational game with direct intervention available. You are not managing a national economy. See the game overview for the campaign’s scope.

What should you check before deploying?

Check the formation’s officer, its logistical weight and its supporting units before adding more troops. The Army Constructor diary explains that formations need an officer in their headquarters and that mission deployment limits use logistical weight. Requisition and available deployment capacity answer different questions.

1. Open the Army Constructor and inspect the formation’s top headquarters.
2. Confirm an officer leads the formation; recruiting an officer and assigning one are separate actions.
3. Compare the formation’s displayed weight with the mission’s limit.
4. Identify infantry, mobile troops and support elements using the unit role reference.
5. Return to the mission’s preparation screen and follow its deployment prompts.

The Army Constructor guide separates officer assignment, requisition and logistical weight so you can diagnose an unavailable formation.

Do not spend every available requisition point just because it is available. First identify a missing role in the formation you can actually deploy.

What belongs in your first plan?

Give your main formation one understandable task, and decide who will protect the ground behind it. Read the mission objective and remaining time before choosing how much territory to cover. A larger drawn area is not automatically a stronger plan; it can spread the same force across more ground.

Original checklist illustration; this is not an in-game screenshot.

Check	Decision to make
Briefing	Which objective matters, and when must it be held?
Terrain	Which approach gives your troops a useful position?
Supply	Can the formation remain supplied while moving and fighting?
Frontage	Can the allocated units cover the area you have drawn?
Headquarters	Is the command element safe from direct contact?

The launch build includes Zone Orders alongside other command options. Use the Zone Orders guide to practise drawing an area, allocating troops and choosing its tactic. Inspect the plan that is executing before making another.

What should you watch once the plan starts?

Watch supply, exposed flanks and the position of headquarters before adding another objective. Pause to inspect the battlefield when necessary. If the force stops behaving as expected, inspect its assigned task and conditions first; repeatedly redrawing a larger advance may make the underlying problem harder to identify.

For an early review, ask three concrete questions: did the units reach the intended area, did their supply remain sustainable, and is the ground behind them still held? The supply guide diagnoses shortages; the combat guide connects reconnaissance and preparation to the next attack.

Which sources support this checklist?

• Official launch scope and changes since the demo, October 2, 2026.
• Army Constructor: officers, logistical weight and restructuring, April 14, 2026.
• Defence diary: deployment, terrain and headquarters protection, August 14, 2025.
• Supply diary: consumption while moving and fighting, November 27, 2025.