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How do you build an army list?
Lone wolf's "Army Builder"
iBodger
GW's list building sheets from the GW site
Spreadsheet
Word processor / Text editor
Pen and paper
Other (write in)

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Hulking Hunter-class Warmech




North West UK

Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet program.

I have a kind of template set up, a little typing and copy/pasting and you can change your list dead easy. It sometimes takes a bit of back-and-forth through the books, but that's not an issue for me.

The best part about this is that points can all be done automatically, and you're less likely to miss points than you would be if doing all the calculations manually...

I've never really bothered with list builder programs...

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Made in ca
Human Auxiliary to the Empire





Blainville, Quebec

Battlescribe with the Codex besides to make sure the point cost total is correct for each unit.
   
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Frenzied Berserker Terminator






Battlescribe
   
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Bounding Assault Marine




Layton, Utah

I use the battlescribe mobile iphone app

Hopefully one day i'll have an army! 
   
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Crazed Savage Orc





Highly recommend army Builder. It saves you a lot of time, and you can compare various armies/units per point really fast. It is also good for multiple game systems.

WHFB 3000 pts
40k 1000 pts
40k 1000 pts 
   
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Drop Trooper with Demo Charge




Essex, UK

quatermaster for iphone.

 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut






Under a pile of rubble

I would use Army builder but I don't feel right paying for my laziness lol so I have been using "+1 Table Top Helper" isn't the greatest but its free and need to do a bit more work pounding out an army list. But for a first draft army list before I start an army is always pencil and paper

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2000pts
1500 pts
Dark Vengance owner
1 squad
1 Crisis battlesuit 
   
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Lead-Footed Trukkboy Driver



Oklahoma

I personally love armybuilder, and understand why updates have to come slow (they slow things down so they get less interference from GW, plus the support is fan made so your not buying those updates...hence why i havent reupped my liscense in 4 years.)

AB allows me to stare at a list as I build to fine tune it how I like or add other units and see how well they work together in my head easier then Pnp or using a spreadsheet.
   
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Horrific Howling Banshee





HQ-Builder or Battlescribe

   
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Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot





In the warp, searching for Marbo

Been using computers since I was a kid, and school instilled a serious dislike for writing. So Lone Wolf.

After all these years of searching for Marbo...he found me. Heretics beware! He's back! 
   
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Major




Fortress of Solitude

I build it in my head then transcribe it to paper.

Celesticon 2013 Warhammer 40k Tournament- Best General
Sydney August 2014 Warhammer 40k Tournament-Best General 
   
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Incorporating Wet-Blending





Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.

Battlescribe



 
   
Made in ca
Focused Fire Warrior





Canada

 NoQuestionzAsked wrote:
I use the battlescribe mobile iphone app



that^^

Necrons
Tau  
   
Made in fr
Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!





Melbourne, Australia

Just on Notes on my iPad. Before I started getting ebooks I used pen and paper but now it's easier just to have everything in the one spot.
(Plus copy/paste to dakkadakka )

My P&M blog

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Made in ca
Pustulating Plague Priest






Pen and paper. When making a new army list, I'll likely look at previous ones to see how much different units are worth and toss them in if they fit the points amount.

Faithful... Enlightened... Ambitious... Brethren... WE NEED A NEW DRIVER! THIS ONE IS DEAD!  
   
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Fresh-Faced New User





Quartermaster
   
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Ancient Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought






Illinois

Microsoft word. And pen and paper.

INSANE army lists still available!!!! Now being written in 8th edition format! I have Index Imperium 1, Index Imperium 2, Index Xenos 2, Codex Orks Codex Tyranids, Codex Blood Angels and Codex Space Marines!
PM me for an INSANE (100K+ points) if you desire.
 
   
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Fresh-Faced New User





I use an app called battle scribe, mostly because it includes the point costs, war gear options, and profiles, for every army
   
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Human Auxiliary to the Empire





I use Battle Scribe on my smartphone to keep track of my armies while im on the go.

4000pts Tau
2500 pts Dwarfs
2000 pts Deathwolves
:1300 pts Orks
1000pts Harlequins
 
   
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Moustache-twirling Princeps





Gone-to-ground in the craters of Coventry

You dug deep to resurrect this one....

Army Builder if at home, and Battlescribe (we'll see how the new version handles) when at the table.

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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw (probably)
Clubs around Coventry, UK 
   
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain






A Protoss colony world

Battlescribe all the way for me!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Made in gb
Boosting Space Marine Biker




midlands UK

Either pen and paper

Or

http://cmdctr.net

Blood Ravens, 1700pts

Empire 40 wounds

Astra Militarum 2250pts

Khorne 750pts

Space Wolves 1550pts

Orks 500pts

 
   
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Jovial Plaguebearer of Nurgle





South Africa

Battle scribe homie

Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind. 
   
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Krazy Grot Kutta Driva





Pen and paper.

 
   
 
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