Sued for manual errata? Hahaha, where have you been the last 20 years of PC gaming...
Then again, barely anyone bother to read them anyways.
That's because manuals are such crap these days that they're not worth reading, because you won't find what you're looking for in them. If a game company is not going to make a manual that has good player-utility, then don't bother wasting paper (or .doc/.pdf space) making one. I hate having to waste hours of time sifting through dozens of useless posts in a forum trying to figure out how something works in a game that should've been covered in the manual to begin with. This is just poor quality on the game company's part.
Check out Dominions III, that's how manuals *should* be done: an A friggin +++ manual if I ever read one, all the way down to how modifiers work in blow-by-blow combat. It doesn't get any better than that for strategy game manuals. Other than a few misspellings, perfect. That's how all manuals should be made.
3) There isn't actually "random maps" when you start a new game it will default to loading 1 of X (not sure exact number for each size, large is I think 3 or 4 different maps) pre-generated maps, this does not include any of the ones you can load.
Why do they bother with 400 different continent names if there are only 4 different large maps? Every time I play a large map it has a different name, I have noticed recently that the land masses are starting to look the same.