How is the documentation?

[aldin]

Originally posted by tgb:
After my Last 2 purchases of games with steep learning curves and crummy docs (Pax Romana and Victoria) I really don't want to go through it again. What kind of documentation comes with the full Version (both hard copy and .pdf) and how useful is it?

The documentation is solid and extremely useful. I never played Dominions and came fresh to Dominions II. As such, I had a difficult time at first understanding why the documentation was set up with so much space devoted to spells and items. Now that I've played a bit, it makes sense. I wish there had been space in the manual for every race/unit/equipment combo, but hey, there ain't.

If steep learning curves are a game killer for you you're probably going to want to look elsewhere. There's a ton of game here, but you need to invest a lot of hours into it. It took me about a dozen hours with the game before my pretender/race combinations made some sort of sense. Heh, but it was WORTH it!

~Aldin