Primer: The Gamer’s Source for Battles from the Age of Reason

About this expansion

Primer: The Gamer’s Source for Battles from the Age of Reason is an illustrated learning tool for 2–6 players, with an approximately 120-minute play time, designed to accompany the Third Edition BAR rules.

For twenty years, the Battles from the Age of Reason series has provided a detailed and realistic gaming expression of mid-eighteenth-century warfare. Its interactive system, researched battles, and richly presented maps and counters offer exciting conflicts across Europe and America, while its depth and period detail can make the rules challenging to learn.

This Primer helps players understand and use the BAR system through illustrated demonstrations, game tactics, learning modules, and exercises. It can be used with all BAR games, as well as older rules sets, while its Learning Modules are designed around the Third Edition rules and require ownership of Fontenoy.

The guide covers the central elements of play, from battlefield organization to combat and morale:

• Command Control and Formations
• Fire Combat and Close Combat
• Disorder and Morale
• Basic BAR Tactics
• Learning Modules and Exercises
• Updating games to BAR v3
• BAR v3 errata, game support, and credits

Included are 280 upgrade and errata counters for previous BAR games. Released in 2013, this Primer offers a structured way to explore the system’s rules, tactics, and supporting materials. Whether used with Third Edition games or earlier rule sets, Primer: The Gamer’s Source for Battles from the Age of Reason is a practical companion for players approaching the series.