Hi,

I'm new to the Civ-type games, and am having some trouble with the interface.  Can someone offer some advice or direct me to links that might help with the following information:

1. Is there a tutorial that describes what the UI is and does?  The manual isn't very helpful, and being new to these turn-based, Civ-type games seems to be a serious handicap here.  Sometimes the tooltips are abbreviated or don't even come up.  I can't imagine this on purpose, but am at a bit of a loss to explain it...?

2. I can't find my leader.  He entered town to pick up reinforcements, and disappeared.  How do I:

2a. Find him again

2b. Add new soldiers to his army (and how do I even find those soldiers...  I think they're in that town)

2c. Buy him new stuff at the store.  At the beginning of the game there was some store thingie, but now I can't find it anymore, and so a bunch of my troops are running around punching stuff.  And dying a lot.

Looking around these forums, it seems others may be having some of the confusion issues I am.  I know it's early in the release and that much of this will get worked out, but gosh.  This doesn't yet feel like a for-reals, ready-for-sale game...