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Included the new necrons, IAA - 2E, and some bug fixes.

Awesome! I checked earlier today, must have literally JUST got uploaded recently

Cheers!

Still waiting for AB for macs.

Wooo! Been waiting for the Necron update!!

Ack, I just posted this in 40k General. Whoops.

Was waiting all month for this update. Now I can number crunch lists without the headache of a calculator and good ol' paper/pen. God I'm spoiled.

Now I only really play with Ogres I have let my license lapse and am finding spreadsheets quite good fun. I already had my list variants done with a week or two of the book coming out. The FOW part was quite handy but for the other games I play I find it just as easy to do it on paper.

I find their business model amusing - continually get people to pay for a product that is useless unless others do the work for you for free. The updates which are essential to the product aren't very quick (not a dig at the people who do it for free). Got to admire the cheek of it really.

I'm the opposite. I find it insulting. After going years with no updates since they were more interested in Hero and Card Vault releases, I did not renew my license. When 3.2 came out, I found I'd have to pay all those years in arrears. No thanks.

Fortunately, there's this that is free and runs on any platform, including mobile.

http://www.battlescribe.net/

It's not that hard to check for updates weekly on your own. I let my license expire and I get by just fine.

That being said, the site is not working atm.

Aerethan wrote:It's not that hard to check for updates weekly on your own. I let my license expire and I get by just fine.

That being said, the site is not working atm.

Strictly speaking not true. Updates are in new version. No license no new updates.

fullheadofhair wrote:

Aerethan wrote:It's not that hard to check for updates weekly on your own. I let my license expire and I get by just fine.

That being said, the site is not working atm.

Strictly speaking not true. Updates are in new version. No license no new updates.

I think he means update to a game file, not updates to AB itself. So unless a new version of AB comes out you can manually update game file updates without having an up to date license.

Until they have a web-based version that I can access from anywhere on any device I'm not too interested.

Been playing this long with pen and paper and it works just fine.

winterman wrote:

fullheadofhair wrote:

Aerethan wrote:It's not that hard to check for updates weekly on your own. I let my license expire and I get by just fine.

That being said, the site is not working atm.

Strictly speaking not true. Updates are in new version. No license no new updates.

I think he means update to a game file, not updates to AB itself. So unless a new version of AB comes out you can manually update game file updates without having an up to date license.

This is what I meant, thank you for clarifying.

Ozymandias wrote:Until they have a web-based version that I can access from anywhere on any device I'm not too interested.

Been playing this long with pen and paper and it works just fine.

I'd like to build lists anywhere on my iphone, but i always email the list to myself in .pdf and open it and it works flawlessly.

12thRonin wrote:I'm the opposite. I find it insulting. After going years with no updates since they were more interested in Hero and Card Vault releases, I did not renew my license. When 3.2 came out, I found I'd have to pay all those years in arrears. No thanks.

Fortunately, there's this that is free and runs on any platform, including mobile.

http://www.battlescribe.net/

I can't find any files for it, I can't find any at all :/

I'm probably rather stupid for asking, but does anyone know where I can get the data files for this so I can use it?


O/T
I've wanted to try Army Builder...but I don't see why I should pay money for a programme that does exactly what I can do on a piece of paper, only slightly faster :/

LazzurusMan wrote:

12thRonin wrote:I'm the opposite. I find it insulting. After going years with no updates since they were more interested in Hero and Card Vault releases, I did not renew my license. When 3.2 came out, I found I'd have to pay all those years in arrears. No thanks.

Fortunately, there's this that is free and runs on any platform, including mobile.

http://www.battlescribe.net/

I can't find any files for it, I can't find any at all :/

I'm probably rather stupid for asking, but does anyone know where I can get the data files for this so I can use it?


O/T
I've wanted to try Army Builder...but I don't see why I should pay money for a programme that does exactly what I can do on a piece of paper, only slightly faster :/

Go to battlescribe.net , then install the program then click "File" "data repository" then input this link
http://www.randomhit.org/battlescribe_data/index40k.xml
click add, then click "update

At the risk of sounding like a smug gakker, makes me appreciate Infinity for the fact that all of this kind of stuff is provided for free by the manufacturer, either downloadable or accessible online.

++EDIT++ Obviously the swear filter is one approved by puritans..

Thank you so much ^^


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Damn...I click on update and it tells me there is a problem connecting :/

Wolflair.com is down today for some reason which is why your update isn't working.

EDIT: manual download page is up at least.

Every time I see a quick update like this--I always think of the guys doing these data files (for free). If you guys ever travel to a con--make sure to wear a shirt with "I WRITE DATA FILES FOR AB" on it--so everyone can buy you a round.

I'd second that AoE.

Praise the Lord. AB is my best friend.

Hahaha AoE, well said!

Semi related note, anyone know if 40k 2nd ed files can be found for the latest AB version?

Anyone donate to Battlescribe? Is it a safe site to send payment to? I'd like to donate for his effort. I am impressed with Battlescribe.

BTW, anyone know how to install/get it to work in Ubuntu? I have it on my XP machine, but cant get it to work on my Ubuntu laptop.....

IIRC I managed it through the Update Manager but it's been about a year and a half since I had an Ubuntu installation.

Ratius wrote:
Semi related note, anyone know if 40k 2nd ed files can be found for the latest AB version?

No one's written them.

Really, no need is seen, as barely anyone still uses 2nd(I AM aware there are some hold outs and the occasional nostalgia game) and it's a massive headache writing a by hand list for the game, much less programming all those combos.

Yeah but could have sworn I saw them - maybe in an earlier AB version :(

Having a slow one tonight can anyone point me to the Necron AB manual downlaod link?

http://www.datafilecentral.com/a3/AB40K5v1_36.ab

Much obliged

Spacemanvic wrote:
BTW, anyone know how to install/get it to work in Ubuntu? I have it on my XP machine, but cant get it to work on my Ubuntu laptop.....

Not sure about Battlescribe, but I sandbox Army Builder inside a Windows XP virtual machine. It's the only reliable way I've found to get it to work in Linux, as it doesn't really get along well with Wine. I can think of no technical reason why Battlescribe would be any different. Go download the ubuntu version of VirtualBox, and then all you need is a install for Windows and you're in business.

It is quite unfortunate that Wolflair hasn't done a Mac OSX version that uses the same file types as the current. Linux still has like a 2% market share so I don't imagine that happening any time soon.