Below you find all the minimum steps needed to have a functional scenario as well as a video tutorial going through all those steps.
Click on the youTube link below:
1. Load a map
2. Create regimes
3. Set ownership of some key towns
4. Save scenario to spread ownership of hexes
5. Load trooptype libraries
6. Load historical unit libraries
7. load officer card libraries
8. load officer libraries
9. place some units on the map
10. assign some officers to the HQs placed
11. load VR Basic Library
12. set supply entry for both sides
13. set VP on map
14. set victory conditions for scenario
15. set start date
16. set scenario description
17. load VR weather library
18. set the initial VR weather library global libvars settings