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Hi everyone! This topic is about art in armylists (if you write them on paper of course).

Have you ever decorated your armylist for special occasion? Or do you do it for every game?

I rarely add anything extra to my lists, but today we are having a "tournament" of some kinds between friends, and just drew couple logos and such on the list.

If you got some great artsy lists, please share!

There are enough free army planning programs out there for various games that I usually have a plain, cleanly formatted list printed out if I've made it in advance. If I have to throw it together on the spot, it's going to be scribbled onto notebook paper, where legibility and formatting become an even greater focus, to compensate for my shoddy human formatting.

Decoration isn't ever really a concern for lists, as I consider them very mechanical parts of the game system - sure, fluff might guide your unit choices, but the army list is a technical readout, a requisition form, or something equally cold and practical. If changing the form interrupts the function, don't change the form. Dropping a few icons in could be done innocuously, but I don't feel it would add enough to justify the reformatting effort (unless someone comes out with an army builder for 40K than makes pretty lists from the get-go, like the one -the name escapes me - for Infinity).

oadie wrote:There are enough free army planning programs out there for various games that I usually have a plain, cleanly formatted list printed out if I've made it in advance. If I have to throw it together on the spot, it's going to be scribbled onto notebook paper, where legibility and formatting become an even greater focus, to compensate for my shoddy human formatting.

Decoration isn't ever really a concern for lists, as I consider them very mechanical parts of the game system - sure, fluff might guide your unit choices, but the army list is a technical readout, a requisition form, or something equally cold and practical. If changing the form interrupts the function, don't change the form. Dropping a few icons in could be done innocuously, but I don't feel it would add enough to justify the reformatting effort (unless someone comes out with an army builder for 40K than makes pretty lists from the get-go, like the one -the name escapes me - for Infinity).

There are free programs that do that? Got a link?

I scribble crude FOC icons next to my list entries. A chevron for troops, explosion for heavy support that 4 way arrow for fast attack, Crux Terminatus for elites, and a little skull for HQ.

nectarprime wrote:

oadie wrote:There are enough free army planning programs out there for various games that I usually have a plain, cleanly formatted list printed out if I've made it in advance. If I have to throw it together on the spot, it's going to be scribbled onto notebook paper, where legibility and formatting become an even greater focus, to compensate for my shoddy human formatting.

Decoration isn't ever really a concern for lists, as I consider them very mechanical parts of the game system - sure, fluff might guide your unit choices, but the army list is a technical readout, a requisition form, or something equally cold and practical. If changing the form interrupts the function, don't change the form. Dropping a few icons in could be done innocuously, but I don't feel it would add enough to justify the reformatting effort (unless someone comes out with an army builder for 40K than makes pretty lists from the get-go, like the one -the name escapes me - for Infinity).

There are free programs that do that? Got a link?

Battle Scribe springs to mind.

Bolter and Chainsword has army list decorations for lots of chapters. They go on the edges.