Where to start?

[Mr Grumpy]

Welcome to the community, no request for help will ever be frowned upon and we will do all that we can to get to going in the right direction.

This question is asked many times so we have become quite good at answering it! LOL

First thing to state is that all the titles have a mixture of small, medium and large scenarios, so that requirement has no effect on your choice.

As OJW said in post #2 it does help if you pick a title that covers a campaign that you have an interest in and that you might have some background knowledge of, coming from SqB WW1 i might have suggested F14, but based on your requirements for maneuver that would actually not be a great choice, you might find the desert titles like T41 or Ea42 have too much room for maneuver for a newbie player?

You stated that you wanted to play the Germans on the offensive in most scenarios which points towards maybe F40 or S41? In fact any of the early east front titles with the Germans on the offensive would meet your criteria, while T43 would not be as open as a pure desert title and see the Germans on the defensive in a number of scenarios, but you may well find this just as enjoyable.

So we cannot pick for you, but good luck in whatever choice you make and we hope to see you playing some PBEM games sometime in the future.