I'm a Newbie too, and I'm just now playing through the demo of the first game in the series (talk about addictive!), and I'm wondering if the strategy guides are PDF or physical? I can't find that anywhere, and $10 sounds like kind of a lot for a PDF, but WAAYYYY too cheap to be a real printed copy. However, given the quality of the help document PDF, I'm thinking I'll buy even if it is PDF when I buy the game (I am saying when, as the credit card is primed, I just have to wait for a little money to trickle down from the well).