If I'm from New Zealand, can I play in these and just accept any lag that may occur or is it only for people from the geographical regions of USA and Europe?
I don't believe they have any rules about that. You should be able to select either USA or Europe as your region and play.
For Mentoring, I play only with I.A so, I think was about this.
I don't play with humans players (or if they are my allies), because I don't like this and they aren't patient, and me I like to build correctly a good army.
With A.I i can do this, and sometimes A.I was better compared to me and that was funny !
Ah, I see, I see! You prefer the AI, and I can hear you are having fun against it, which is all that matters!
Unfortunately, that is all the French I possess. Sorry about that! Anyway, if would like to get better at the game, then you may find the Mentoring forum to your liking.
Come on in, into these small halls and a find a seat. There's sure to be a fellow ww2 nerd somewhere around these parts, although I cannot name any, but welcome ye shall be! Would ya like tea, or mead?
Quite the goal you have, I reckon you haven't found a mentor as of yet? If you haven't, feel free to add me: -HOI- Yukiko. And I'll see what I can do. Should be able to get you up to the 200 range, at the very least.
So I was a reasonable CoH1 player lvl 16 with USA and Wehr but it took the help of a mentor to get there.
I am now able to play CoH2 competitively so aiming for top 100 in all factions and then top 50 for 1 or 2 factions. Anyway I've got a long way to go so if any decent players are able to help I am willing to do what it takes to improve.