Originally Posted by Thrasher 
Yeah, I can't support a project that doesn't provide a manual at lower levels. It's ridiculous in my eyes.
HoMM6 came without the manual. Fans made one and it's inside a sticky on Ubisoft forums.
Also Risen2 didn't have an english manual first few days, then you had to find a link on the official forum to Deep Silver's ftp site and download it from there.