How to

Play

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.

Go from Basic, to Advanced to Pro and then go Beyond!

BASIC

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

Important Knowledge on Advanced mechanics

Important & Interesting mechanics you should know

Advanced

Possible Game openings

Learn good game openings

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

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]

Ready to test, tweak and then release?

How to

Play

To get started

In Depth Look at Economy

Strategic Icons

Basics on Sea Warfare

Important Knowledge on Advanced mechanics

Possible Game openings

Early Air Raids

File Structure & Prerequisites [1]

Heightmap & Rendering [2]

Additional Maps & Details [3]

Objects & Grass [4]

Map Config file [5]

Map Playtesting [6]

Nav

Information

ARMADA FACTION

CORTEX FACTION

OTHER