Battlescribe

[Notsonoble]

So now that the warhammer 40k league and tourney are over at my FLGS. There's a chance to push warlord and other miniature games again at the store. Lots of the 40k and fantasy players use battlescribe. I know there's the army builder on reapergames but I can see a few advantages to doing army lists for battlescribe.

 

1) Visibility for Warlord

 

2) Rule Validation (to some extent)

 

 

Would anyone else be interested. I've started a nefsokar catalogue, and game system file. If others would be willing to help, I'd start a github repo for building / improving the files.

[Notsonoble]

I've gotten as far as I can today with a Nefsokar catalogue. Here's the git repo

https://github.com/Notsonoble/warlord-battlescribe

Edited May 7, 2015 by Notsonoble

[seej]

Interesting. I've never heard of Battlescribe (always use ReaperGames Army Builder), but I'll check it out. How would the rules validation work? Do you put in specific constraints when building each catalog?

[Notsonoble]

Yes, although battlescribe is built to support closer to gw style units, enough work can get restrictions into the catalog. I'm hoping with other hands we'll figure out how to set unit size limits based on leader (not an upfront way to do that so gonna take some thought) as is I can get it to limit # of leaders per troop and # of warlords per army.

[Maredudd]

I was looking at this last year but couldn't figure out how to build the data sets.

[Notsonoble]

Maredudd, if you download the all systems zip. It has the data set creators in it. I don't know about the windows or mac download (linux user) but the zip is just the java files, which open on any machine with java.

[rgtriplec]

Seems like a lot of work for something that already exists at Reaper Games. I also don't think it would bolster much support. Game support comes from the makers of the game supporting and promoting it, and from players promoting locally.  As for Rules Validation that day has long past. I like 2e and loved 1.5+ but, people that know the game that aren't devoted to Reaper generally aren't impressed.

[Notsonoble]

Sometimes the work is worth it. The web army builder at Reapergames isn't very mobile friendly, and saving army lists to easily bring back up is very much a thing. There are flgs so impressed with battlescribe for other games that they require a battlescribe built army list at tournaments. Even stores like the one I play at prefer you send them a list built in battlescribe for format consistency to facilitate armies that still have to be manually validated.

 

If adding warlord to battlescribe repositories makes it more attractive to stores who run store supported events, then its community building, and community building is never a bad thing.

[Maredudd]

The Mac version came with  Catalogue Editor, Data Indexer, and a Game System Editor. The problem I had was trying to figure out where to start. I found several sites that provided  information but not being familiar with the terminology used I couldn't figure out how to implement the Warlord system. Warlord is the first Tabletop Wargaming system I've experienced and to be blunt, I have had little time to dedicate to it. I'm confident that will change eventually!

 

I do plan on trying again though . . . :-)

[rgtriplec]

Sometimes the work is worth it. The web army builder at Reapergames isn't very mobile friendly, and saving army lists to easily bring back up is very much a thing. There are flgs so impressed with battlescribe for other games that they require a battlescribe built army list at tournaments. Even stores like the one I play at prefer you send them a list built in battlescribe for format consistency to facilitate armies that still have to be manually validated.

 

If adding warlord to battlescribe repositories makes it more attractive to stores who run store supported events, then its community building, and community building is never a bad thing.

 

I'm not trying to be discouraging, but I can't see battlescribe as a better tool. Yes, I've used it for other games and its good, but for Warlord it will not be better and more than like not nearly as good. Unless you plan on putting hundreds of hours into it.

 

The Reaper tool not only builds the list, it gives a printable list of every data card, sa, spell and magic item. If you use it you never need to reference the book except for mechanics. Everything you need in regards to your army is on the printout. The only things that aren't are faction abilities and Warlord abilities and they were purposely left out. So, you'd have to buy the books to use them.  The Reaper tool also benefits from being with the data card search tool and various tutorials hosted on Reaper Games, and the forums.

 

I'm not sure how mobile friendly you are wanting, but it works just like the main site, and I can save the list easily with my Android phone, ipad and generic tablet. I can also synch to a printer and print the lists.