Kings of War for Battlescribe (free army building software)

[scarletsquig]

Warpath 1st Edition completed!

No waiting around this time, I knuckled down and did everything as soon as the lists went live.

Warpath lists can be a bit of a nightmare, luckily battlescribe can handle all of the weird "if you take X, then change X to X and reduce X by X for every X choices of X that you make" stuff that appears in the army list, and I've built this all into the files. The final roster correctly displays the modified statline based on whatever equipment and weapon options you take. If you've been holding off on upgrading battlescribe, you will need to do it now, since it's only recent versions that have support for handling this.


Here's some sample lists, showing the two 600-point Forgefather and Marauder armies that you get in the starter set:

Starter Set Forgefathers (600pts)
600pt Forgefathers Roster

Selections:

* Solid Units (175pts)

    * Steel Warriors Section (175pts) 
        Heat Hammer (25pts)

* Units (275pts)

    * Stormrage Veterans Team (275pts) 
        2x Hailstorm Autocannon (80pts), Heat Hammer (25pts), 2x Heat-Cannon (80pts)

* Ordnance (150pts)

    * Jotunn Heavy Hailstorm Cannon (150pts) 
        (Piercing (2))


Profile Summary:

                    Name	Type	Spd	Hit	Fire	Ran	Att	Def	Ner	
  Steel Warriors Section	Inf (10)	4	4+	16	24	10	5+	14/16	
 Stormrage Veterans Team	Inf (5)	4	3+	4	24	5	5+	11/13	

                    Name	Type	Spd	Hit	Fire	Ran	Att	Def	Ner	
Jotunn Heavy Hailstorm Cannon	Ord	4	4+	16	60	-	6+	10/12

Starter Set Marauders (600pts)
600pt Marauders Roster (Standard)

Selections:

* Solid Units (505pts)

    * Grunt Platoon (250pts) 
        2x Anti-tank gun (60pts)

    * Grunt Platoon (255pts) 
        Anti-tank gun (30pts), Ripper talons (35pts)

* Armour (95pts)

    * Raptor (95pts) 
        (Crushing Strength (1), Fast, Open Top)
        Anti-tank gun [A] (30pts)


Profile Summary:

                    Name	Type	Spd	Hit	Fire	Ran	Att	Def	Ner	
                  Raptor	Arm	12	4+	*	*	-	6+	9/11	

                    Name	Type	Spd	Hit	Fire	Ran	Att	Def	Ner	
           Grunt Platoon	Inf (20)	5	4+	16	12	40	4+	20/22

[lord marcus]

Would the warpath files be seperate or do we still use the same update code/link at the start of the thread?

[scarletsquig]

Same link, just hit update.

[lord marcus]

Yay! forge father list planned out. thanks SS!

[Kathil]

Very nice tool by the btw, thx scarlet.

[scarletsquig]

Warpath Corporation added.

Will sort out the update to the Forgefather and Marauder lists tommorow.

Edit: Forgefather and Marauder lists updated! Every single points value in the entire of both lists has changed, most of them were lowered by 20-40%, a few were raised.

[rodmillard]

Hey squig - just updated now that you have the corporation list. Really impressed with this!

MINOR bug to report though: can you add in the TFW option for Ranger Sections - it seems to be missing...

[scarletsquig]

^ Fixed.

[scarletsquig]

Update: Veer-myn army list added.

Also, the latest version of Battlescribe now automatically checks for updates to data repositories whenever you load the program.

So, basically, you no longer need to manually update the KoW and Warpath army lists... as soon as I publish a new list or edit an old one, battlescribe will automatically do this for you.

I'll still post details of major updates in this thread just to let people know that the new version is now live and available to play with right away.

[vonjunk]

Nice job, Scarlet. I missed this being on the Mantic boards somehow. Thanks so much!

[Bubble Ghost]

First of all, thanks scarletsquig for pointing out this software and for building these files! Great stuff. And sorry for the bump, but I gots a question: is there any way I can edit your data files to change the names of the units as they appear on printouts? I quite fancy swapping out the KoW unit names for the GW ones, you see, so it reads "Witch Elves" instead of "Blade Dancers"...

[scarletsquig]

Yep, just open up the catalogue editor and change the names. You might also want to disable auto-updating from repositories otherwise my files will auto-overwrite your modified ones.

[Bubble Ghost]

Yeah, I tried that, but that seems to only change the display name in the roster editor software. When it prints, the original name still shows up in the profile summary.

e.g., I've changed "Buccaneers" to "Corsairs" and it shows up in the army list builder part of the program and in the list of units on the printout, but the profile summary at the bottom of the printout still says "Buccaneers". I was wondering if I could change that.

EDIT: facepalm alert, I've just worked out how. Sorry!

Thanks again for putting this together. Very handy.

[lord marcus]

Hey SS, is BS updated for the hardback KoW book? If not, would you like help?

[scarletsquig]

It'll be released when the .pdfs are public.

[frozenwastes]

Thanks for working on this. Works fine on my Linux Mint 13 Xfce installation.

[Hobilar]

Just got set up with KoW and Battlescribe. Thanks for the effort you put into this.

[scarletsquig]

All the Kings of War datafiles have now been updated to v3, including all the magic items and such after Mantic gave the go-ahead to hit publish on them.

As always, post any errors in this thread, and I'll fix them right away.

[Karanthir]

I've created an Orc list with 2 Krudgers. When I add a Sneek to one but not the other I get the following error message:
"All Krudgers must have the same number of selections from Sneeks"

[scarletsquig]

Oops, I know what caused that too, I'll definitely fix that with the next update.