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If you are a new player, or if you want to take your gameplay skills to the next level, please follow the carefully prepared guides below.

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Basic

To get started

How to start your base and first expansions
Basic

In Depth Look at Economy

More refined info about the BAR economy
Basic

Strategic Icons

Learn how the strategic icons are structured
Basic

Basics on Sea Warfare

All basics you need to know about naval warfare
Advanced
GUIDES
Advanced

Important Knowledge on Advanced mechanics

Important & Interesting mechanics you should know
Advanced

Possible Game openings

Learn good game openings
Pro
GUIDES
Pro

Early Air Raids

Death from the skies
Beyond

The ultimate strategies and tactics to take you to the competitive level.

These skills are so rare, they currently don't even exist here...

Let's hope we can trick a BEYOND player into sharing their skills.

Mapping
Mapping

File Structure & Prerequisites [1]

What are all the components of a map-file for BAR
Mapping

Heightmap & Rendering [2]

How to turn a heightmap into a texture
Mapping

Additional Maps & Details [3]

How to work with normal, specular, reflect and DNTS splatmaps
Mapping

Objects & Grass [4]

How to add objects and grass to your map
Mapping

Map Config file [5]

Everything you need to know about the mapinfo.lua
Mapping

Map Playtesting [6]

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