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**Dark Scipio**

I wonder if anybody here already uses the 40k Module for Vassal to play 40k games through the Internet?

for more
http://vassal40k.wordpress.com/

A review here:

http://40knation.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49:vassal-40k&catid=10:articles

**Platuan4th**

ooo.... a full sprite set! I never seem to be able to find a download with a full sprite set, I'd love to know when this set will be available.

**Dark Scipio**

We have full sprite sets for Ultramarines, Space Wolves, Imperial Fists, Raven Guard, Necrons and Orks. All other Fractions are only missing 1-6 sprites avarage, except Chaos Space Marines. Dark Angels are nearly ready.

It will be released within this week.

**Platuan4th**

hmmm.... having problems accessing LO, but will have to snatch these up when they're out, thanks!

**Dark Scipio**

Perhaps it would be useful to post the links to download it.

You can download Vassal there:
http://www.vassalengine.org/community/index.php

and you can download the 3.2 module version there:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-415257/40KMod_vrs32.html

All you need is a opponent then, but there are usally some in the ,,lobby".

**legoburner**

Beautiful sprite graphics there! Thanks for posting this.

**Dark Scipio**

Here is 3.4 wich is only a fast update until 3.5 comes out, but it features bases and many new sprites and usefull utilities.

Warhammer 40k Module 3.4

In short (not complete):
--Necrons
--Map Layers hills, vegetation, roads, buildings,infantry,vehicles,counters ( will keep models slipping under hills and such)
--private map windows for army composition (a place to put the models but not on the main map)
--movement trails
--multi board support ( done in 12 or 24 blocks?)
--Deviation Dice located in Counters[Misc]. Random direction and hit/miss roll. Move forward 1. Area of effect for 3,5,7 and 10 inch blasts.
- Cleaned out the terrain pieces. (free rotation eats up a lot of memory and doing it on large terrain pieces will eat up even more)
- Terrain can now be selected using Shift-Click. (Ctrl-Shift-Click would not work for me for some reason)
- Turn tracker intalled. Tracks turn number, player side and phase. Left in the end of phase buttons just in case the turn tracker is not liked.
- Mouse over viewer will now show model information (wargear) instead of location
- Scatter dice installed. Located in the counters/misc folder. Put it on target and roll. Will randomly select hit or miss and rotate to a random facing. If a miss is indicated just move the piece that many inches (CTRL-UP ARROW). Has the option of 3,5,7 and 10 inch blast areas.
- Configurable sized maps. You can now select any number of 24 x 24 sections you want and each one can be a separate color if desired. (selection of 5 colors)
- 2 more map windows so people can organize their armies away from the map. Kind of on
Complete Editthe honor system if the other person is not supposed to see it until deployment.
-image capture added to table map window (snapshot of the current map. Nice for battle reports)

**mauleed**

What is this? I'm completely lost, but very interested.

**studderingdave**

me too, can someone gimme the skinny on this please?

**Dark Scipio**

Asking what this is?
Its an engine to play the tabletop through the internet, just like at home.

Or are you asking how to use it?
Download the Vassal engine (Java), download the module, start Vassal, select the module, connect to the internet/the Vassal server, look around or ask people in the lobby for a game. That should it be.

**leejerrum**

This is an awesome Mod guys.

We're about to start one of the biggest ever online 40k tournaments in the new year.

Check out the rules info here.

http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4045

**jamsessionein**

Hey, hey, do I get a tiny mention here or what?

**Grot 6**

Like I said, Never say never.

**Dark Scipio**

Here is a small list what is already done for 3.5:

--fixed necron basing
--fixed ork basing and missiing warboss mega armor, tankbusta, kommando w/ big shoota, burna, shoota, trukk, stormboy nob. Removed second deff dread. Changed the mad dok image to the JT one, much better.
--fixed chaos basing
--Checked Dark Eldar
--Eldar basing checked, Swooping Hawks redone
--Eldar war walker now has layers for the different weapons layouts.
--Resized and layered all Eldar vehicles and jet bikes
--Began adding new terrain sprites from JT
--Added Ultramarine Chaplain on bike, Adjusted bases on ultramarines
--replaced DarkAngel sprites with better ones. Missing quite a few but at least they look better now. DA Dread has configurable weapon mounts. They are still based on the Spritebase once created by jamsessionein.
-- Change LOS thread to red. Shows up better on most terrain types
--Add text label selection for terrain pieces
--Casualty markers
--DE, 2 wyches with CCW + splinter fixed

--Added new Avatar sprite, resized and layered the Eldar Wave Serpent, Fire Prism, Vyper, Jet bikes and Falcon.
--Added vehicle prototype. Includes Immobilised and Condition (shaken, stunned, destroyed) layers. Applied to all vehicles.
--Changed Tau Devilfish/Hammerhead/Piranha sprites. Added layers for weapon mounts.
--New Kroot sprite
--New IG sentinel, chimera, leman russ, demolisher, basilisk and hellhound with layers added, Pickle – The Boy Squig did the baneblade and Leman Russ Executioner. Basicly loads of new IG tanks added thanks to the Pickle man.
--New IG infantry done.
--Assassins added to Inquisition list
--IG Vulture, Valkyrie and Thunderbolt flyers added.
--Dice bucket implemented. Select the number of dice, hit ctrl p, push the button with your target number. All dice show the number and a big F if it failed the number. Rerolls are doable (rerolls the last set of failed dice, red Fs). Armor saves will be last and all failed armor saves will show up as big red Fs. Up to 120 dice can be rolled this way.
--Space Wolf predator and landspeeder put in with layers.
--Space Wolf should be complete now with all vehicles and infantry done.
--The Pickle warhound was put in.
--Scale has been changed to 25 pixels per inch
--Put bases on harlequins and wraithguard
--ork mek boy force field now has the 6” field effect as a key command
--many terminators have now been put on 40mm bases
--created the hellstorm apocalypse flamer template.
--Added transparent bases. You have to select no base and the hit ctrl-z for the AoE to activate.

**Dark Scipio**

We have created a small Vassal module forum (our 40k module and the recent begun Epic and Fantasy module).

There you can see sprites that are already made, post wishes, suggestions, critic and even post sprites you made yourself to be impleted into the module.

Vassal module Forum (40k, Epic, Fantasy...)

**gamefiend**

just want to say thanks a bunch.

This is a great tool for running test games of builds and strats. I've been just using it to play solo and see what top lists do against lists I'm proposing and it's been fantastic. Keep it up!

**grizgrin**

this looks like a riot. I'll have to give it a shot when I get my laptop back. Tell me again why GW IP lawyers aren't stampeding toward this? not that I think they should, mind.

**Boyofdestiny205**

K i could only find the 3.0 version of vassal. Am i missing something?

**Lormax**

I found 3.0 as well, and the link to 3.4 from above doesn't seem to work. Anything updated here?

**FearPeteySodes**

This is really really cool, i had no idea it existed! I gotta try it asap.

**Lormax**

Ok, got module 3.4, here's the link.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4z0tdjbuj9x

Anyone else have this that want to try?

**Dark Scipio**

Now there is a ladder for your Warhammer 40k Module games on Vassal.
You only have to register and join the ladder and can report every game against other ladder members then:

http://www.vassalengine.org/tournaments//ladder.php?ladderid=13

It would be also possible to put up more ladders, like a special DakkaDakka only ladder or sometimes a Forum ladder to find out which forum fields the best players.

I hope you enjoy it.

In case you dont know the Warhammer 40k Module at all:

http://www.advancedtautactica.com/viewtopic.php?t=6360

**Dark Scipio**

To remove some minor bugs here is 3.5.5:

http://www.mediafire.com/?df4ygbgbxvx

V40k3.5.4
--fixed necron basing
--fixed ork basing and missiing warboss mega armor, tankbusta, kommando w/ big shoota, burna, shoota, trukk, stormboy nob. Removed second deff dread. Changed the mad dok image to the JT one, much better.
--fixed chaos basing
--Checked Dark Eldar
--Eldar basing checked, Swooping Hawks redone
--Eldar war walker now has layers for the different weapons layouts. (can you have 2 different weapons on the walker?)
--Resized and layered all Eldar vehicles and jet bikes
--Began adding new terrain sprites from JT
--Added Ultramarine Chaplain on bike, Adjusted bases on ultramarines
--replaced DarkAngel sprites with better ones. Missing quite a few but at least they look better now. DA Dread has configurable weapon mounts.
-- Change LOS thread to red. Shows up better on most terrain types
--Add text label selection for terrain pieces
--Casualty markers
--DE, 2 wyches with CCW + splinter
--Added new Avatar sprite, resized and layered the Eldar Wave Serpent, Fire Prism and Falcon.
--Added vehicle prototype. Includes Immobilised and Condition (shaken, stunned, destroyed) layers. Applied to all vehicles.
--Changed Tau Devilfish/Hammerhead/Piranha sprites. Added layers for weapon mounts.
--New Kroot sprite
--New IG sentinel, chimera, leman russ, demolisher, basilisk and hellhound with layers added, Pickle – The Boy Squig did the baneblade and Leman Russ Executioner. Basicly loads of new IG tanks added thanks to the Pickle man.
--New IG infantry done.
--Assassins added to Inquisition list
--IG Vulture, Valkyrie and Thunderbolt flyers added.
--Dice bucket implemented. Select the number of dice, hit ctrl p, push the button with your target number. All dice show the number and a big F if it failed the number. Rerolls are doable (rerolls the last set of failed dice, red Fs). Armor saves will be last and all failed armor saves will show up as big red Fs. Up to 120 dice can be rolled this way.
--Space Wolf predator and landspeeder put in with layers.
--Space Wolf should be complete now with all vehicles and infantry done.
--The Pickle warhound was put in.
--Scale has been changed to 25 pixels per inch
--Put bases on harlequins and wraithguard
--ork mek boy force field now has the 6” field effect as a key command
--many terminators have now been put on 40mm bases
--created the hellstorm apocalypse flamer template.
--Added transparent bases. You have to select no base and the hit ctrl-z for the AoE to activate.
--Added a marker that will show firing unit, direction and target. Place it on/near the unit firing. Point arrow at target and then place marker on/near target. It will leave a trail showing who is shooting what
--Dark Angels added
--Redid the UI to the simpler images and fonts and put similar buttons into sub-menus
--Each model has a 2” radius AoE. Just select your base size
--Smoke added to all vehicles
--Fixed issue where vehicles showed up as ‘Clear’ when the mouse over was used
--Added Stompa, Chaos Warhound, Reaver, Nightwing
--Deamon Hunters have been updated (Pickle). Most have layers
--Added a ‘go backwards 1 inch’ command to all pieces
--Added 2, 6, 12 and 24 inch range circles to all models that have a round base
--New kill markers done by DS. Randomly picks from 3 with random facing
--Necrons now have a repair layer

3.5.5:
- Corrected Grey Knight/Justicar weapon options
- Corrected Grandmaster layer bug
- Added Grey Knights Special Weapons
- Corrected =I= Stromtroopers, added two weapon options
- Corrected Gov. Palace and Streefight map tiles

Unfortunally the Raven Guard didn`t got in due to lack of time.

**Dark Scipio**

After I have been away for a long time, I would like to start the work on the new version.
Are there any suggestions or whishes? Do you care about it at all?

Here are some previews of new orks:

Thanks to Amdor.

**Savnock**

Quick question- being Java, is Vassal platform-independent? Can one use it on a Mac or Unix box?

EDIT- Stupid question- went to the site and saw it was indeed platform-indy. Yay Java.

**KiMonarrez**

I may never leave the house again.

**Dark Scipio**

Can anybody tell me what ork sprite have to be done (are missing)?

**Death By Monkeys**

Oh, hells yeah! Now I can finally play 40k with my friends across the country!

Question though - I noticed that 40k wasn't a module listed on Vassal's website. That makes me assume that there are a variety of other games out there like 40k that have modules, but just aren't listed. Does anyone know if there are WHFB or Battletech modules available as well?

**Dark Scipio**

There are up to now only a 40k module, a Battlefleet Gothic module and less developed modules for Necromunda, Mortheim and Blood Bowl out there. Fantasy is in progress.

Most modules are listed, our isn`t as GW demanded Vassal to remove it from the list (although they had no right to do that).

**CaptKaruthors**

I have the the most current version of Java, but somehow can't get vassal to run the 40k module.

Capt K