I've got some real issues with this game.

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I just spent 2hrs playing the games first battle (US vs. Japan) on Tarawa, which, I suppose is supposed to be a starter mission, to acclimate you to the game. One big problem, it doesn't show you how to do anything. Does this game not have a Tutorial? The manual is near useless, so I was hoping and kept waiting for, the game to walk me through doing things, but it never happened.

Finally, I beat the level, though I don't know how, since I felt I could figure out little more than moving troops and calling in reinforcements.

Anyway, I'm coming to the experts to have some questions (hopefully) answered:

1) Can you not reform lone soldiers into other units? Or at least reinforce them to put them back at full strength?

2) Why is single player called "Skirmish mode"? Can you not practice against the computer in a user designed/altered skirmish setting, like Company of Heroes, where you can choose maps, sides, etc?

3) How do you play the single player as someone other than the US?

Thanks in advance.