A campaign tutorial in the game would be helpful. Just a one mission, "click this and that" to go to a single canned encounter. 90% or more of players will never read the manual and their first attempt will nearly always be click and see what happens. The subtle use of the three speeds while pointing the mouse may be lost on a lot of players. They'll just left click and go, running into land.
Also, a bit of geography knowledge is needed. While the briefing mentions the geographical area to be searched, the EXACT area mentioned is not necessarily included in the map labels, so the player still needs to know where Mermansk is and the North Sea, etc. Otherwise, when the target forces do appear on the map, the player is not 1000 miles away when they go invalid.
A chance to play with the map without failing the campaign would be helpful.
If nothing else, when the player reads the brief, they should have a mental picture where to find that location before they click to start the mission.
GoogleEarth could be very helpful to the geoimpared.
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