Want to play the game 'by the book' - forget it! - well okay, here is some stuff that might set you on the right track.

A general resource is this Player's Manual (very much updated from the portal version[1]).
Very useful to understand whats written on forums, this wiki and the UBB is this list of Common Terminology
and then there is all the stuff below (to which you can contribute and edit)

Beginner guidance	Colour Strategies
Researching for dummies Mike Clough's Strategy Guide	Ascendancy - White Sirhatter’s White Guide	Maerlyn Style White
Portal Startup Guide * Portal Tutorials	Eradication - Red Azreal's Red Guide
Groentje Players Manual	Nether - Black Sabre Nether Guide	DOLZero's Devil Guide
Advanced Help Ronin's War Formulas Topian Early Ranking Alzorath's TR-FAQ v0.2	Phantasm - Blue
Favour from Gods Common Terminology	Verdancy - Green A Basic Guide to Verdancy

   Contributing to this section? Great! Just dump your new page [[Like this]]
   somewhere here and we'll organise this page further.

Getting to non-wiki places

Guides