[AdmiralZhao]

My understanding is that the manual is only wrong about a few corner cases for the rules and for the stats which have been re-balanced since the printing. The basic combat rules are fully explained, and they even give you a handy chart for calculating the percentile chances with an open ended 2D6. Really, I think the thing that makes learning Dominions difficult isn't a lack of documentation, but rather the sheer amount of spells, items, units, and effects.