Ahh ive been playing all of the Advance Wars games since the first one came out on GBA.

If this is your first game in the series, i strongly suggest you check out Advance Wars Dual Strike, the first one that came out for DS, its tons of fun and more friendly to new players, the video review for that game should explain all, but im assuming that they wanted you to try out Dual Strike first, because the tutorial is much more fast paced this time around.