Kings of War for Battlescribe (free army building software)

[idfreak66]

This program seems pretty boss... any chance we can get some of the fan-lists that are out there? I play Dark Elves... soon to have an official list, and my lady friend plays 'ratmen.'

[scarletsquig]

I won't be personally be doing them.. there are too many of them, too many different versions and they change too often.

I think they'd be best done as a seperate project if anyone wants to have a go at making and updating the fanlist files. It's not too difficult to make a file, only takes about an hour or so and doesn't require any programming knowledge.

[scarletsquig]

Bump - Twilight Kin update complete!

Let me know if there are any errors, there will probably be a few that I didn't catch.

[idfreak66]

Fantastic! looking forward to some twilight kin games. I will download this this weekend and give it a go. Did you create any substitute rules or anything for the currently unknown rules? (vicious, regeneration, etc.)

[scarletsquig]

Nope, don't intend to either. Only risks confusing people if I start adding in fan rules that later get replaced with official ones.

Also, if I didn't already mention it, you will need to update your version of battlescribe to the latest version on the Battlescribe website to use the files as the file format the developer uses has changed.

[lord marcus]

How do I update my file?

[scarletsquig]

See first post.

[lord marcus]

ah, thank you. missed it.

[lord marcus]

Wait a minute. I tried that and i'm getting the same error Matt did.

[scarletsquig]

Download the latest version of battlescribe, from the website. Do not use your old .zip. As I mentioned 2 posts before this one.

New version of battlescribe released today so I'm going to test it, just to make sure.

Edit: Yes, it's working.

[lord marcus]

YAY! Thank you SS.

[granan]

Downloaded the new list today and the Shadow Regiment can choose as many banners and musicians as you want.

[scarletsquig]

Thanks, fixed. I also picked up on and fixed a few other minor things.

[emperorpenguin]

Really handy program and good work on it Scarletsquig!

I noticed a few errors in the Twilight Kin though once I printed it out. It lists the Bolt thrower as Attacks 6 and nerve 2 with no mention of blast d3

Also in the selection rule summary breath attack, headstrong, hidden and thrown weapons are not explained

[idfreak66]

Any news of 2nd edition update to the battlescribe?

[scarletsquig]

Work-in-progress. It's gonna involve at least 12 hours of work so I'm taking it slowly.

Also, I won't be releasing it until mantic puts it's .pdfs up for download (which should be very, very soon).

The new human and goblin lists will be the first priority, followed by some fixes to the twilight kin, then revamping all the other lists to include stats/points/nerve changes and addition of all the new units.

Warpath will get redone when the final version of the army lists is posted. The addition of the speed stat mid-beta really screwed with my first attempt.

Also, I read every post and PM.. I might not reply to them all, but they do get read and noted.

[lord marcus]

Eagerly awaiting the new update. Will there be a way to work in allies?

[scarletsquig]

Yes, alliances will be in there, they'll be done as 2 seperate additional lists, good alliance and evil alliance.

However, they will be the last thing to get done, and only after gotten the bulk of the testing and error-fixing out of the way... otherwise I'll end up having to fix a ton of things twice (or 3 times for neutral-aligned lists), once in the regular army list, and again in the alliance list.

I'll be removing some data that the current files offer, specifically alternative profiles to represent changes such as the increase speed to 9 when you buy a horse for 5 points... this currently has to be done using a hacky alternate profile technique, but the feature to dynamically modify a unit's profile based on the equipment it takes will be coming to battlescribe soon, so I'll be preparing the files for that change, removing all the duplicate profiles for stuff like the 5 different "Dark lord on X mount" entries and replacing them with simple "change X to X" notes attached to the upgrade option for now.

Alliances will also be waiting until that feature is in place, to avoid further double and triple editing.

[idfreak66]

Greatly appreciate all the effort! Let's hope if they make an addendum to the rules, (which seems to be the current hope with the catapults), it is an easy change for you. Thanks again!

[scarletsquig]

^Yeah, little modifications are easy, it's the big updates that are the killer... turns out that this is going to be more like a 24-hour job to sort out properly.

Anyway, Human army list is done!.

As always, give it a spin and let me know if anything is out of place. It uses the new "upgrades that can modify profiles" feature just added to battlescribe, which is good because the KoW 2.0 lists are full of stuff like "if you take X reduce X to X, add X to X and replace X with X".. software can now handle all that jazz.

Next up, goblins and some minor bugfixes/ modifications to Twilight Kin.