Hello all. Has anyone experienced this: the first German mission, the first enemy I encountered was a panzerklein. He killed me in the first blast. Restarted the game and the enemies were armed civilians (as it should be).

What first mission are you talking about? The introduction mission you first start has no armed civilians and the mission after that always changes because of the randomization of the campaign. Also are you playing Allies or Axis and did you install any mods? I never had such an encounter and have not heard from anyone else about something like that.

wow, that must've been one hell of a introductory mission hahaha.
If its not happening again after you restart, its all OK then. I've never heard a bug like that.