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This is weird and I imagine a lot of users here might not care much, but I care a lot. While I wrote the army lists for my 40k rewrite, I got all the information down but the way I did made me feel like there could have been some way to do that was a little more elegant. GW does a good job of communicating all of their information, but the 7th ed books are one unit to a page and that's silly. The Horus Heresy Red books also do this, but it works for them because those are luxury products with lots of nice artwork and extras.

How do other dakka users think Unit entry information can be formatted and how can it be done so that all of the information that needs to be communicated can be in, let's say a half of a page?

I could send you a single unit entry from one of my codices to compare with others, if you want...

The 7th ed books are really silly because of the one-unit-per-page thing. Used to be they'd get their page with all their rules and a snippet of fluff, and then at the appendix there was essentially a quick reference where are all the HQs are listed, their statline, their wargear, their rules, and that's it. Then the next one, then the troops, elites, etc. Super handy reference that didn't make you hunt through the book to find it. I don't know why they got rid of that, it's so handy.

It's not like you didn't have to go back and forth back then though either, as units with unique rules and wargear didn't have them explained in the army list section, and come 6th Ed the army-wide wargear + psychic powers pages were moved to be before the gallery instead of directly before the army list.

FW's way with the HH works best because all the options and non-general rules are listed on the one page (or two is the unit has a lot of special rules/option) with the rest being explained in the one place. Tbh I'd much rather have 2 entries on 2 pages than 1.5 entries on a page and then the rest of the second entry on the next. It's less efficient but looks nicer.

Are there other games that involve army comp that anyone knows about I could check out? 40k units tend to have a lot of *stuff* that needs to be communicated so other games' set ups might not jive at all but it might be worth a look.