After you open the app, you are taken to the app's start screen.

No.	Description
(1)	Imperial Commander features three tutorials aimed at players who have never played Imperial Assault before. These tutorials explain how to play the game and use the app. Select the tutorial from the dropdown menu and click/tap the green arrow to launch it.
(2)	Select the language of the app here.
(3)	Click / tap this button to open the expansion selection (shown left) where you can select which expansions you own and import custom groups.
(4)	Open the Options menu (see below).
(5)	Click / tap to close the app.
(6)	Click / tap Campaign or Select Mission to choose your game mode.
(7)	This is the main menu. You can start a new campaign / mission here, load an existing campaign, or continue from a mid-mission save. Imperial Commander automatically saves the game state after each round, after all deployments have been resolved. Click / tap Continue to load the saved game state.
(8)	Click / tap here to open the wiki documentation.
(9)	If you want to support the app, click / tap here to open PayPal for a donation.
(10)	The app checks if you're running the latest version, so you don't have to check the repository for updates. Yellow, spinning = checking for update; Yellow, pulsing = update available; Red, pulsing = network error; Green = up to date.

Activating Expansions and Figure Packs

Click / tap Expansions on the main screen to open the expansions menu. Simply select any boxed expansion you own. A green color means that the expansion is selected. Click / tap Figure Packs to open the figure packs sub-menu and do the same here. Please note: Only figure packs that add non-unique enemies are listed here. Villains and allies can simply be selected during mission setup.

Settings

The settings are divided in sound, visual, and general options.

Setting	Description
Music	Activate / deactivate the background music.
Sound FX	Activate / deactivate the sound effects.
Ambient	Activate / deactivate the ambient sound.
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Bloom FX	Activate / deactivate the visual bloom effect.
Vignette	Activate / deactivate the visual vignette effect.
Top Down View	Activates a top down view, displaying the game map at a 90° viewing angle from above.
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Quick Close Windows	When activated, windows can be closed by clicking / tapping anywhere outside the window. When deactivated, windows can only be closed by their respective close / continue button.
Zoom Buttons	Activates buttons that can be used to zoom the game map (instead of using the scroll wheel / pinching).
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Round Limit On	The round limit is enabled.
Round Limit Off	The round limit is completely disabled.
Round Limit Dangerous	The round limit is enabled. However, once the round limit is reached, the mission does not end. Instead, threat gain is doubled and deployment events get more dangerous.

Importing Custom Game Elements

Imperial Commander 2 supports custom game elements (groups, missions, campaigns) created with the Imperial Commander Editor.

Downloading Game Elements

Step 1: Visit the Imperial Commander Google Drive and download the game element you want to include.

Step 2: Locate your ImperialCommander folder. This folder is created when you first launch the app. It is created in your personal documents folder. On Windows, for example, the default Documents folder is under C:\Users\ (User name)\Documents, on Android it's storage/emulated/(userid)/Android/data/com.GlowPuff.ImperialCommander2/files.

Step 3: Place the downloaded file(s) in the correct subfolder:

• Campaigns (file format ZIP): Subfolder CustomCampaigns (Note: Just zipping mission files is not enough, campaign files need to be created with the Campaign Packager in Imperial Commander Editor)
• Missions (file format JSON): Subfolder CustomMissions
• Characters (file format JSON): Subfolder ImportedCharacters

Starting a Custom Campaign

Step 1: Launch Imperial Commander 2 and click/tap on New Campaign.

Step 2: Click Import and select the campaign you want to start.

Step 3: Click/tap Start.

Starting a Custom Mission

Step 1: Launch Imperial Commander 2 and choose Saga / Select Mission mode. In the mission selection screen, click/tap OFFICIAL in the bottom right to switch between official and custom missions. The app now displays the folder structure of your ImperialCommander folder.

Step 2: Just select the custom mission you want to play, choose heroes, difficulties and so on, and then click START.

Importing Custom Characters

Enemy groups

Step 1: Launch Imperial Commander 2 and click on Expansions, then Import.

Step 2: Activate all enemy groups that you want to use. You can quickly activate / deactivate all groups via the icons on the bottom left.

Note: All groups activated in the Expansion menu are available to be added to open groups, just like official groups. They follow all the same rules as official groups and can be added to the Ignored groups if you don’t want to use them for a mission.

Heroes, Allies, and Villains

Heroes, villains, and allies do not need to be activated. Instead, they can be selected during mission setup and in the campaign log as usual. They can be found by clicking the scout trooper icon in the respective window.

Custom hero window

Custom ally window

Custom villain tab