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Is it useful for building army lists? A few friends of mine said that it was very inaccurate when telling you if your list was invalid.

The people making its database files make mistakes here and there, but mostly it's pretty good. Always check the rules with your codex before printing lists!

Its amazing for keeping track of units and special rules, but keep in mind points for wargear and sometimes units are off by 5 points or so, still waiting for my loci of beguilement to be worth the 30 points it is in the codex, rather than the 25 it says on BS

It’s been a while since I’ve found any issues. Not that there aren’t any, but the ones I’ve noticed were fixed.

Frankly, I probably made more mistakes working with pen and paper.

Seems like most mistakes that it has get updated pretty quick. I havent been useing it very long tho.

I find updating the source regularly is always a good idea.

Pretty accurate for the most part especially if you keep it updated. I use it almost exclusively for list building. It sometimes has things missing- example being for Celestine, there's no mention of the saintly blessings she has or that her geminae take wounds first in BS. Always make sure things match up with the hard copies before depending on it.

Oh, just to clarify, I also just use it for list building. If you want rules, use your codex. I can’t vouch for how accurate those are.

If you encounter something that's too good to be true, or doesn't quite match your codex, just ask.

And sometimes the codex is incomplete.

For instance, Veteran Vanguard Squads in the newest Space Marine codex don't reference the ability to take power fists. They can take power weapons for 5 points, but nothing allows them to take a power fist explicitly.

However, in Battlescribe, they can take power fists, which is actually correct, it's in line with the rule sheet that is printed with the veteran vanguards.

Which means you could, for 20 points, take a power fist and a lightning claw (both specialist weapons), for 4x str8 ap2 attacks on charge.

Just illustrating what you won't find in your codex, but might find in battlescribe, too.

For starters, battlescribe does not replace your codex, it only acts as a quick reference sheet and calculator. It is generally quite accurate with stats and equipment costs, but it does have the occasional mistake, so check your codex for upgrades you're not familiar with. However, while I've never run into blatant errors in points, there are definitely a few cases where wargear options are not legal. For example, all of the Dark Angels characters have the same menu for selecting weapons, but not all of those weapons are available to all of them. BS lets me take a librarian with a thunder hammer when that is definitely not a legal choice.

Need to keep track of a couple lists? Want to quickly add together a list to see what your points are? Trying to min-max that tournament list and don't want to erase everything 20 times? Battlescribe is great for that kind of stuff, I keep all my lists on it and use it to design my new lists. If you know your army well it's a handy tool.

What you should not do is use it to learn an army. While many of the rules are there some will be missing, or will be summarized in a way that doesn't fully teach you the rule. Don't use it to create units you've never added up before, as you don't know if all of the options are legal. And never, ever, ever use it to build a tourney list that you then don't check directly with the codex to make sure it's all legal. Even if it's just a small thing between friends you don't want to be the guy that brings illegal lists. One way or another you need to read the codex. It will save many headaches and arguments.

Just to the "we fix things quickly":
Yes, we do. However we are few and far between.. and some codexes simply to not have someone that maintains them as a priority due to a lack of knowledge and interest.
So if you DO want to take over some of the less used cats because its a army you play... be our guest.

And yes, it seems like a librarian cannot take any other melee weapon.. Strange, I seem to have missed that.
Fixing right now.

 Marmatag wrote:
If you encounter something that's too good to be true, or doesn't quite match your codex, just ask.

And sometimes the codex is incomplete.

For instance, Veteran Vanguard Squads in the newest Space Marine codex don't reference the ability to take power fists. They can take power weapons for 5 points, but nothing allows them to take a power fist explicitly.

However, in Battlescribe, they can take power fists, which is actually correct, it's in line with the rule sheet that is printed with the veteran vanguards.

Which means you could, for 20 points, take a power fist and a lightning claw (both specialist weapons), for 4x str8 ap2 attacks on charge.

Just illustrating what you won't find in your codex, but might find in battlescribe, too.

Just want to direct you to the line in the codex where it says VV and take plasma pistols, grav pistols, and power fists for 15 points.

I figure your eyes might have glazed over from the useless, overpriced pistols before getting to the 'fist at the end.

As stated, I will just repeat:

It works great, but is no substitute for the actual rule books.

Marmatag wrote:If you encounter something that's too good to be true, or doesn't quite match your codex, just ask.

And sometimes the codex is incomplete.

For instance, Veteran Vanguard Squads in the newest Space Marine codex don't reference the ability to take power fists. They can take power weapons for 5 points, but nothing allows them to take a power fist explicitly.

However, in Battlescribe, they can take power fists, which is actually correct, it's in line with the rule sheet that is printed with the veteran vanguards.

Which means you could, for 20 points, take a power fist and a lightning claw (both specialist weapons), for 4x str8 ap2 attacks on charge.

Just illustrating what you won't find in your codex, but might find in battlescribe, too.

Thing is, this is still not LEGAL. By that if it doesn't say so in your codex, then you can't do it.