Not much to add to the clue book.  The game flies well without much in the way of suggestions or problems.

Except:

On the mission where you track the last pirate instead of kill him -- stay a good distance away 20-30k is fine.  As soon as "mission objective accomplished" -- head on home.

You can use leech missiles to stop some cap ships instead of torpedoes.  Try it.
Also, on the "destroy the Lexington" mission, use [C] for com, chose one wingman, then the other.  First, lock on one cluster of enemy and issue the command [C, then attack my target].  Then, lock on the other cluster, use C and tell the other wingman to attack my target.  This will tie up all of the enemy ships.

You can then barrage torpedoes, from a safe distance out (torpedoes don't get shot down when launched from a distance) or you can barrage leech missiles.

The above are major changes from WC3 where Leech missiles were useless and torpedos got shot down if not fired from close up.