Are there any (up to date) tutorial videos? Or is the best way for a noob to start out, is just use the manuals ?

EECHCENTRAL is great wiki.
manuals also.
eech is not complicated like dcs (for now) so tutorials are not needed.
this is future coming soon i hope :

Thanks

Probably too late, but still may be helpful.

I have seen some gameplay videos on YouTube, but it's only one that contain explanations:



will be great if some of oldschool eech'ers will do videos like that, as we have no tutorial missions in the game

It is something I am planning to do (at some point). Just not enough time at the moment.