I've lost games with a 3 victory hex advantage, so what exactly are the victory conditions, other than victory hexes in a pbem game?

The selection of custom forces for both the multiplayer and AI games presents a force on the map that has you undeploying units one by one on to create your custom force. There should be nothing on the map to rework, just core slots to build what you want.

For an AI game, choosing a custom force presents with many units on the field to remove one by one to make your custom force. Just wondering if some bugs are in the Steam engine, or network transmission? I tried to set up a large and huge map game, and there was no deployment action possible, as it ...

I am wondering if I get Panzer Corps original game, while waiting for the second version, would that be a good experience for learning the second version, or is the second version greatly different in game strategy and play?

OOB new Blitzkrieg is described on the site as single player and PBEM. Is this accurate, as why would you PBEM with yourself?