What's a Greenhorn General to do?

[Mr Grumpy]

You have raised an issue i have thought was a problem since i first bought my first PzC title, the scenario description is too vauge and opening a scenario and looking at your opponents units in detail gives too much info.

So the only halfway house is to do what Rick & Ed suggest and look at the zoomed out overview without looking at the scenario in detail, i believe that gives you the same amount of historical info that the commander would have had on average.