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I've always like the idea of using cards to identify units in war gaming. Warmachine and Hordes have them but (in my ignorance) they are skirmishes games. So it's one character per unit. Don't play and never actually read the game rules.

I've been called the guy who likes to fill out sheets. And I like to create them as well, almost more than filling them.

So with the help of the Magic Set Editor, I've created templates for Warhammer 40k units. I've updated my package to support 8th edition. I have templates for units, weapons, and rules. As Games Workshop doesn't want stats to be listed on anything they don't actually create, I am providing samples with placeholders only to let you preview the cards with content. None of the specs are necessarily true and exact for the characters.

The default one has the name and the number of minis in the unit at the top, the cost and stats in a column on the left, the image on the right and the Wargear and Special rules boxes at the bottom.


Another has the standard look of CCG cards like MTG with the name, cost at the top, the unit image in the middle, and the stats under.


Another has the same layout but the image occupies the entire face of the card.


As 8th edition doesn't have specific vehicle starts, I have kept the landscape format for those who want a large image. When you are using this card format, you need to print it separately from the other format and the MTG Card Set Editor has a printing bug where the card is crooked when printed with other portrait format cards. It works though.


8th Edition has introduced the multi-wound (or decreasing efficiency) rules so there is a card for these. I have locked the ranges to Full, half and a quarter of the wounds. I don't have all indexes so I believe it should work for most units. I know it doesn't work for titans (and maybe knights) as these have four categories. Then again, putting a titan on such small card isn't really fitting.


I welcome and encourage comments and suggestions for the cards.

I still have some detail work to do on them but they are fairly usable as they are. Good thing is once the data is entered, you can change the template without losing anything.

I made the current files available in my One Drive folder. It's the most practical means for me of getting the file out and updating it.

That, good sir, is ingenious. I could seem myself using them.

Its an interesting idea. I just don't see it being practical. I allready know the stats and special rules for my units. There is no real need to have these cards. Yes it works for warmahordes as they are you hit point tracker and spell list and what not. Crappy game by the way. IMHO.

I guess if you need them to remember then this is a pretty good way to go about it.

Meleck wrote:I've always like the idea of using cards to identify units in war gaming. Warmachine and Hordes have them but (in my ignorance) they are skirmishes games. So it's one character per unit. Don't play and never actually read the game rules.

I've been called the guy who likes to fill out sheets. And I like to create them as well, almost more than filling them.

So with the help of the Magic Set Editor, I've created templates for Warhammer 40k units. Right now I have three templates for standard units. These will probably be revised as I continue working with templates and I have other templates planned for vehicles, weapons, and rules. As Games Workshop doesn't want stats to be listed on anything they don't actually create, I am providing samples with placeholders only to let you preview the cards with content. I've used an images of Digits Drogan minis (With permission. Thank you.) as the image for the cards. Same image for all three cards.

The first one is the standard look of CCG cards like MTG with the name, cost at the top, the unit image in the middle, and the stats under.


The second one has the same layout but the image occupies the entire face of the card.


The third one and the one I like the most right now has the name and the number of minis in the unit at the top, the cost and stats in a column on the left, the image on the right and the Wargear and Special rules boxes at the bottom.


While testing the cards, I realized that it would be better to have more room for the wargear and less room for the special rules. So I modified these two boxes in my last card to see if it would work better.

I welcome and encourage comments and suggestions for the cards. I am currently working on a vehicle card with the stats on the side. The vehicule card will be in landscape format.

I still have some detail work to do on them but they are fairly usable as they are. Good thing is once the data is entered, you can change the template without losing anything.

I made the current files available in my 4shared folder (W40K_Unit_Card.zip). I know some people don't like 4shared but it's the most practical means for me of getting the file out and updating it.

I think they are pretty cool. You could also make a "tick box" for things like a combi melta to track use.

Personally, I would rather just use Army Builder. 40K can have a lot of models on the board, especially in the 2,000+ point range. Army Builder keeps track of everything on 1-2 pages.

These are really useful! I also use ArmyBuilder but I prefer to have some prebuilt units ready to go when I'm at my local GW store. Any chance you could make card backs for these for the weapon, wargear, notes and statistics?

Vehicle Cards would be pretty awesome as well.

Thanks again for these!

You know why I always wanted W40k to use stat cards? Because then GW can update broken or useless models a lot quicker and balance armies a little better than they do now.

All they have to do is release new cards for the armies that need them.

It's been a while and I haven't been working on these that much. Work has progressed on the Vehicle card but I can only ask you to be patient (or generous) with me as I find that it's hard to allocate time to this project. So many things to do, so little time.
Anyhow, I'm not here to complain but to tell you that I have updated the W40k card set to include a new set for Wargear. Yes, you can now have cards for your wargear. the card look like that.

It's a separate set as the columns (which I am having problem with) don't really match with the regular unit columns. There really is only one column that can be shared and it's the strength. No point in trying to include the new columns so I created another set. I have also created an icon for the standard card set. I am currently using artwork that I didn't get permission to use (It's not GW) so it might go down as I did ask for permission but still didn't get any response.
I'll keep working on this on an infrequent basis. I'm TERRIBLY UNRELIABLE for things like this. I will eventually get the vehicle card up and I might have some changes for the unit cards as I am realizing that it might interesting to have the unit type listed as part of the unit (such as rough riders).
EDIT: To make it easier for people, I'm repeating the location of the file. I made the current files available in my 4shared folder (W40K_Unit_Card.zip).

These are great and I'm anxiously awaiting the vehicle cards!

I like the look and feel of them, and it brings me back to the days of 2nd edition cards! I personally enjoy using cards and it is easier to have a bunch of premade cards ready to go at the GW shop then to waste time at the store figuring out what you want to play.

I'm thinking about making backs for these cards. Thank you so much for providing these.

If your ever get the itch to make more it would be cool to have

Mission Cards
Stratagem Cards
Psychic Powers
Asset Cards

I've been trying to figure out MSE for ages. I'm slowly getting there.

With the exception of Vehicles I have a few of my choice squads made. I also made a back for the Unit cards as well. I still need to make the Wargear card backs.

I would trade the places of the wound and attack boxes on the last picture to pair up the stat values (skills/physical/combat/etc).

Ingenious idea, would defiantly help out imho.

Getting my set made. I will need to get some photo paper, these are printed on 250 gsm cardstock.

Whatever you do, be careful about how you use them. Make sure you never try to sell or share them in open forums. GW is well known for religiously guarding their Intellectual Property, and I would hate to see you get slapped with the threat of a lawsuit.

Just be careful my friend.

I will replace the pictures once I've painted my models. These are for personal use only I can't see why I would want to sell them, more trouble than it's worth.

Thanks a lot. It's nice to see how people are using them. And it makes me want to do some more work on them.

I should have an update on the cards in the next week. I've almost finished the vehicle card (95%) and I've modified the font color of all cards to follow the color selected for the background.

My next step may be to add some new backgrounds.

For these Mission, Stratagem, Psychic Powers, and Asset Cards, I would have to research them as I don't have enough knowledge of what goes into them. And it's trickier because I would need to include rules to make them proper and that's a NO-NO from Games Workshop.

The most feasible are probably the psychic powers but the only info I have on most of these comes from the main rulebook and my Tyranid codex. So I don't know how complete those cards would be.

These are really cool. I would love to have them for my armies. Good work!

These are really cool. Im trying to modify a couple to have room for Invulnerable saves, but do you know if there are cards for vehicles and walkers?

Oh wait, wasnt hard to fix...

I like the new designs! The added spot for Invulnerable saves is really nice to have. Are there any walkers that get an invulnerable save?

Take a look at this Heresy Online link to official GW pdf's

Psychic Cards need a spot for these things

Name

Point Cost ?

Range

Strength

AP

Type

Large description area I'm not sure if a picture is necessary for Psychic Cards. I have the official Tyranid Psychic Power cards that GW released on pdf but I can't find a link on their website anymore. I'm sure if you do a search you might find it. My google skills are lacking.

Strategy Cards can be found on the GW site. I think that style could be used for Missions and/or Event Cards so you could kill 3 birds with one stone.

Here is how GW does their Asset Cards which could use the same style as the cards above (4 birds instead).

These are the cards I plan to make for my summer campaign with my best mate, my son and my wife. I have 2 armies (space wolves and Tau), then we have CSM, Eldar, and Tyranids. Its going to be fun and we want to add extra spice to our games by using cards, Planetary Empires, Planet Strike and home rules. I'm using some of the Generic MtG cards for Planet Cards and other stuff to keep track of the large amount of stuff going on. Each player will build their deck and be able to use it to keep track of what is going on.

I know a lot of people scoff at cards and boast/brag and make comments of "Paper, Pencil, and a Calculator is all you need" Well I have Dyslexia and Dyscalculia and I work better with visual aids than lists that I find confusing and hard to pinpoint information. Besides isn't 40k a visual game anyways, otherwise it would just be a game of numbers on a paper.

I'm getting excited for these! I'm holding off my next print run until the next release!

Wow, the new template is pretty sweet. Thanks.

I have updated the cards on my 4shared site to include an alternate side stat card with more space for the Save box, two vehicle cards (portrait and landscape), and a walker card. Remember that you should be able to change the style of a card and the relevent information for that style should be present. Therefore, any unit or character card can be changed to use another style. A unit or character card will have information missing if a vehicle or walker card style is assigned to it, and vice-versa.

I've also updated all the cards to use the same font color as the stat boxes. I want feedback on that feature or if it would be better to be able to select black as a font color. If so, that would be an override on all the font colors for all the cards. I know it can be done, I just have to research it a little.

It`s important to me to be able to keep the data relevent for all the cards. A change in the style shouldn't break a card. That goes for the colors as well. There might be some changes in the color for the full face card as I have modified the color for the boxes to match the other styles. There are now less colors for the full face card. I've also tried to fix the cropping for the image boxes. I didn't like the white borders appearing around some images.

I don't have the previews yet for the cards. And I need to be able to figure out how to do thumbnails as I don't want to flood this thread. Hope you like them. If people want to be able to create their own backgrounds, PM me so we can arrange something.

ShottyScotty wrote:Oh wait, wasnt hard to fix...

It's not only modifying the PNG file, it`s also making sure that the fields are at the right place and in the right order. And making only one file for each template is easy. It`s having to make the 7 files for all the colors available. This is where it`s taking me a long time. And I keep wanting to redo all the boxes as I feel that they aren't consistent enough. Anyhow, now they are done.

ShottyScotty wrote:These are really cool. I'm trying to modify a couple to have room for Invulnerable saves, but do you know if there are cards for vehicles and walkers?

The invulnerable save should be entered as part of the regular save. I'm making sure to be able to reproduce the GW way of listing characters and units. If you look at how they are listed, they should be listed the same way in the columns. Anyhow, I've made one of the template (Side Alt) with a bigger Save box for those who want more room for their INV or other saves.

Highland_Piper wrote:I'm getting excited for these! I'm holding off my next print run until the next release!

Hope they didn't arrive too late. I had promised them earlier and I had them made but then I went over them again and fixed a few little bugs. The data entered for all the card should be compatible with the new set. I try real hard not to break that feature. Where it might have been broken (on purpose) is if you're using full face cards.

Everything is awesome except that the Wargear cards are broken.

They don't work with the previous set so I get no images. This is fine as I only had a few made up.

However the new Wargear Style I can not enter any data. The Cursor will not show up in AP or Type and although I get the Cursor in the other fields nothing shows up when I type. Images are placed just fine.

I've had no issues with the W40K Unit cards. The changes to the Sv is perfect! I love the new Walker and Vehicle cards. They will fill out my deck perfectly

Thank you so much for these cards. I hope you see fit to continue the great work!

Found the problem and you can fix it on your own. Actually, I recommend that you do because I won't be updating the files in a little while.

In the files "game" and "style" in the Wargear folders, change "Wargear Card Face" to "Card face". The field names are case sensitive.

The problem was the font color is determined by the field "Card face" which doesn't exist in the Wargear files. So the text won't show up.

For the AP and Type, make sure the following line is present under "Armor Piercing" (line 111) and "Type" (line 125) in the style file.

z index: 10

That should fix those.

Looks like I hadn't tested that card type. Thanks for the QA.

Worked like a charm! Thank you very much for these!

Melek,

Can we get an updated vehicle card with Hull Points (HP)?

This is an awesome idea! I cannot remember all my units stats, so I would benefit from this a lot. But I am not sure i am doing it right. I downloaded the magic set editor, and the 40K unit cards. I just cannot figure out how to get the "40k unit cards" in to the Magic set Editor? can anyone help me with this please?! Thank you!


Never mind, goofing around with it more, i figured it out.

Highland_Piper wrote:Meleck,
Can we get an updated vehicle card with Hull Points (HP)?

I don't mind doing it. But as I haven't bought 6th edition yet and I can't get any vehicle listing off the internet, I need to get information from you. What is the standard listing (in order) of a vehicle? Currently, it's BS, Front, Side, Rear. Where are the Hull Points located in that listing? And what`s the range.

Do I need to create cards for flyers? Or add special boxes for them. I believe they should just be standard vehicles but I haven't read 6th Ed yet. Anyone interested in having me read it, you can send it to me by mail. I'll give you the address.

BS, Front, Side, Rear, HP

That should be all you need. Anything else can go into the description area.

Want... I'll will have to put time in making a set when I can.

Though it would be cool to have a condensed weapon one, i.e one for all bolters, one for plasma/melta, then tank weapons etc.