Back in the day, me and my four buddies tried to play that (the original SPI version). We must have used just about every flat surface we could find in the house, not just for the maps, but for all the charts and tables that comes with it. We didn't get very far with it, TBH.
“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'