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Oh yeah. If any of you guys are not already following Battlescribe on the social media, make sure you do so:

https://plus.google.com/s/battlescribe

It's a good way to show the author that we appreciate his work.

Woohoo! Finally the free version for iOS is available!

Sorry for the wait on that one :-(

Here it is: http://goo.gl/7EG2I

What's the difference between the paid and free versions? Just curious, a friend got the free android version.

So where exactly are you supposed to get data files for this program? The link a couple pages back is broken, and any google search turns up links that are woefully out of date.

I'm on Win 7 PC.

@Loki
Paid version has the ads removed plus a little bonus dice statistics calculator as a thank you :-)

@Griever
Personally I use the Randomhit.org repo: http://randomhit.org/battlescribe_data/index.xml

I've started using this on the iPad and I have to admit that I really like it. It can be a bit clunky to use at first but once you get the hang of it, it's a doddle

 Cyporiean wrote:

Any plans to create Brushfire datafiles?

Look, Army Painter finally has limited support for 6th edition. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/468484.page

Don't even have fortification slot. I have no idea if they even support double FOC for primary detachment.

@Griever: if you use the randomhit ones and mine (below), you can also get fortification, double FOC, some fixing of wrong point costs, ...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/565769/40KCatalogues/index.xml

 Jonskichov wrote:
@Loki
Paid version has the ads removed plus a little bonus dice statistics calculator as a thank you :-)

@Griever
Personally I use the Randomhit.org repo: http://randomhit.org/battlescribe_data/index.xml

One stop shop!

What is the 40K enhanced? It only opens IG?

Hey guys. I've had a quick look through but I couldn't see it, and a google search hasn't found anything. I'm currently working on my own files (edited versions of the ones from Randomhit), generally doing tidying or just personalising them, as well as adding in many many Forgeworld items into the Imperial Guard file. I've just updated the WH40K gamesystem to support 6th ed changes too.

Anyway, to the point. Does anyone have a catalogue for the Ork Dread Mob army list from Imperial Armour 8 - Raid on Kastorel Novem?

Cheers,

Mike

Quick question about how the roster works.

Lets say I set a unit size at 10. Then I tick up the inclusion of a champion or other special character attachment that appears in that unit list.

Does the total for the unit now equal 11 mini's, or is it still set by my original unit size of 10, and the character simply replaces one of the default troopers.

I'm assuming the second option as that makes sense however just wanted to verify if this matches others expectations, thanks.

It's the second one, or at least that's been the case in the lists I've played with. It's quite possibly list dependant, so you may find that other lists handle champions differently.

It depends on how the author designed the list.

For Tyranids, a Broodlord is added as an additional model, as evidenced by it being spearate from the squad model count, and costing 60pts (the cost of a Genestealer + Broodlord upgrade). Same with a Tyranid Warrior with heavy weapon, it's actually added as a whole new Warrior attached to the squad.

I've seen some variation. In the case of Eldar Exarchs, the codex specifies a +12 point upgrade to exchange an Aspect Warrior for an Exarch. Whoever did the Randomhit file didn't bother to implement the conditional logic[i](i.e., decrement aspect warriors if exarch) so the roster ends up indicating the wrong number of models. I've fixed this in the updated file I host.

Just downloaded and started playing around with it, definitely works well if a little clunky. The Tau one in particular is a bit odd when you're playing with different suit configurations and team leaders and whatnot. Overall though it's a solid replacement for Army Builder.

So really it sounds like the more effort the person who built the file put in, the better / easier it will be to create a list

I'm liking it so far, got my data from the Randomhit index and apart from it crashing all the time when selecting items or special additions it's worked well. Again, it will probably turn out to be a fault in the list (Lizardmen) and not the app.

Bought BS Mobile Pro for my Kindle Fire and loved it. Broke the Fire (dummy me , no replacement plan) and just replaced it with a Fire HD. When I went to download my apps to the new kindle, noticed that BS was missing from my 'cloud.' After going to 'manage your kindle,' I was a bit surprised (both Android OS, right?), and disappointed, to see that the Fire HD wasn't compatible with BS (or vice versa).

Any chance of a Fire HD compatible version in the near future?

@Verd_Ward
Didn't realise it wasn't compatible with the new Fires. I'll have to take a look. Hopefully I can get it sorted for the new version.

Thanks for letting me know :-)

Glad to help. Looking forward to the new version.

Is CSM available anywhere yet?

No, please make it.

I'd also like to see an option to reverse the colors on BattleScribe. White letters on a black background would aave a lot of battery time.

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
I'd also like to see an option to reverse the colors on BattleScribe. White letters on a black background would aave a lot of battery time.

It really wouldn't. Modern LCD/LED panels still power black pixels, so the power difference between black and white is literally negligible.

rigeld2 wrote:

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
I'd also like to see an option to reverse the colors on BattleScribe. White letters on a black background would aave a lot of battery time.

It really wouldn't. Modern LCD/LED panels still power black pixels, so the power difference between black and white is literally negligible.

Modern LCD are Oled and dont draw power for operation of black pixels.

davou wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
I'd also like to see an option to reverse the colors on BattleScribe. White letters on a black background would aave a lot of battery time.

It really wouldn't. Modern LCD/LED panels still power black pixels, so the power difference between black and white is literally negligible.

Modern LCD are Oled and dont draw power for operation of black pixels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED
Even OLED still uses power to display black. Yes, it uses less than a normal LED, but OLED panels aren't widespread enough for me to call them "modern".

rigeld2 wrote:
but OLED panels aren't widespread enough for me to call them "modern".

Sorry I was under the impression that they didnt use any power to activate a black pixel, and did so by just switching that pixel to 'off'.

And they're very widespread in the instance the person you replied to was talking about. Almost all mid-high end cellphones and tablets operate OLED and AMOLED. Why would OP be concerned about battery life on a computer or TV screen?

also;

The amount of power the display consumes varies significantly depending on the colour and brightness shown. As an example, one commercial QVGA OLED display consumes 3 watts while showing black text on a white background, but only 0.7 watts showing white text on a black background.[10] Because the black pixels actually turn off, AMOLED also has contrast ratios that are significantly better than LCD.

Mian Dong; Choi, Y.-S.K; Lin Zhong (July 2009). "Power modeling of graphical user interfaces on OLED displays". Design Automation Conference, 2009. DAC '09. 46th ACM/IEEE (IEEE): 652–657.

As I understand it, only the white text would draw power non?

Mine got CSM weeks ago. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/565769/40KCatalogues/index.xml

@leoheart spacewolves does not appear to work in your file. On the android verion it just gives an error while trying to create a roster. On the ios version it loads but none of the categories (hq,elite etc.) are there. I have not tried it on the pc version.

Anfie - works fine on my iPad.

if only the ipad had its own version rather than the silly iphone version. Looks sooo bad on the ipad.