I'm having trouble with "Original War".
I can't find a tutorial, manual or walkthrough that will explain
the command icons. For example, I'm just starting out as the
Americans, and I get an order to transfer crates from the
Northeast base to the North base.
Okay. How?
It's NOT obvious to everyone. Not everyone has played
a game like this before. Right click? Left click? Click an icon?
Which one(s)? In what order? Frustration does not equal fun.

Everytime you encounter something new, a "?" symbol will pop up on upper side of your HUD. Point at it with a cursor and it will display what is that advice about. Click it and it will display text with description.

Thanks, klayman, maybe that will be helpful.
Meanwhile, I need information such worded this way:
To transfer fuel to a vehicle,
1. Right click on a soldier, or a mechanic
2. Right click on the warehouse, then click on the fuel icon
3. Right click on the vehicle you want to put fuel into
This sort of instruction should have been the VERY FIRST THING that appears in the game!!!

On the HUD, where is access to game menu or settings, there is a "?" button (again), which opens the game information (something like encyclopedia), where you can find probably anything you might want to know.

Thanks, I got that figured out. It is actually a pretty good help index.
I could use some advice. In the story tree, I had
Macmillan opt to stay with the Americans.
Now I am in the scenario named "Cold War", or
something very like that.
I keep losing, with the error message that I don't have
enough Siberite to complete the mission.
1. I selected one extra scientist (figuring one would do
research while the other would be out hunting apes and
resources), three soldiers, a mechanic and an engineer.
2. I immediately build a warehouse next to the Siberite
deposit in the south, then dump all the resources from the
cargo trucks into the warehouse.
3. Next, I build a lab, and put scientist Stevens into it. I think
I always begin with a technology upgrade, to be able to access
Siberite research.
4. Very frustrating, the game always refuses to allow my
engineer to build a Siberite mine, saying that I don't have
enough resources. It would be nice if it would say WHICH
specific resources are lacking.
5. I send the cargo trucks out with escorts to hunt for crates.
This map is HUGE, and I keep hearing the arrival of crates,
but they are incredibly, incredibly very very very very very
very very very hard to find. I hear them arrive, yet they don't
show up on the minimap.
6. The agonizing frustration of hunting for crates is made
eight trillion times worse with the arrival of the Arabs.
6. The agonizing frustration of hunting for crates is made
eight trillion times worse with the arrival of the Arabs.
That flamethrower is unbeatable. The Double Guns don't
seem to make even a tiny dent in the Arabs, and the Gatling
gun is a joke.
7. At this point, maybe I've got a few crates, maybe if I'm very
lucky I've found and trained two apes as engineers. Finally,
I can build a Siberite mine.
8. Now, at this point, should I be using resources to
build a power plant of any kind? The dialog that MacMillan
speaks at the very start of this scenario says that both a lab
and a big power plant are needed, which really suggests
that the power plant should be Siberite, not solar....even if I
completely skip the power plant, I keep getting the "You lose, you
don't have enough Siberite" message. Feels like getting punched
in the back of the head. I've got this on the easist possible
setting! WTF????
9. I usually kill Gorki, sometimes he escapes, it doesn't
appear to make any difference.
10. There are never enough resources for anything, such as
a barracks, factory, etc. Yet if the ONLY thing I do is leave
a scientist in the lab doing Siberite research, and EVERYONE
else is hunting, hunting, hunting for crates, I still lose.
Every time.

4 - for siberite mine you need just crates, nothing else.
5 - optoelectronic laboratory, research materialisation detection. Nuff said.
6 - try building armory, upgrade to barracks, research sniper rifles (laser pointer research?), snipe the drivers from inside the barracks, then dismantle the captured cars for extra crates. AFAIK their cars aren't remote controlled, nor controlled by apeman.
8 - IIRC you just have to build enough power plants to have enough energy, not to build certain power plant
9 - killing Gorki will just earn you a medal, nothing more