Some quick questions...

[msaaim89]

... and hopefully quick answers.

- How do you build units?
- Is it possible to let AI take control of certain aspects such as Production or Finance
- Is it possible to set objectives for the army and let AI deal with. (i.e As USSR set target as Paris, would AI aim to occupy Paris?)

 

[ChrisFox]

It's all in the menus (the various tabs not the news feed thingies), AI can take control of almost every aspect of the game for you. From troop movement, building, and even trading/taxes/spending.
I am not sure about setting objectives, you can set hotspots though, not sure what they do.

 

[Samilou]

... and hopefully quick answers.

- How do you build units?
- Is it possible to let AI take control of certain aspects such as Production or Finance
- Is it possible to set objectives for the army and let AI deal with. (i.e As USSR set target as Paris, would AI aim to occupy Paris?)

Explore the interface. It wont bite you. Go to the military department, pick a land, naval, air or missile fabrication and build units there. Make sure you research designs though. And as Chris says, AI can take over most things for you, so just take it easy and learn at your own pace, but try to minimize AI control as it will not run things very competently. I barely let it control anything at all since almost any human can do just about everything a hundred times better without it other than controlling tens of thousands of units simultaneously.