(OLD)Warhammer 40,000:The App

While the app is currently in beta it is not worth the price you're being charged. A steep subscription fee is required and you are also required to buy books new in order to access specific rules. If you fork over all that cash the app is poorly optimized, rules are not easily accessible, searchable, or laid out in a way that makes sense. Worse, there is no easy way to cancel your subscription. There are free options available. This is a hard pass for me in it's current form.

I sprung for the subscription, so I could access all the codex material without having to buy the old 8th edition versions while waiting for the 9th. Handy for that, plus rules. Battle Forge is broken though, for, of all things, the normal space marine tactical squad! With a full squad of ten, if I upgrade one bolter to flamer, it tells me I have too many flamers! Same for the middle launcher... This has been the standard load out for decades!

While the site states that you can have acess to some things like Codexes without a subscription, you in fact need a subscription for everything. On that note, a subscription service? What incentive is there to subscribe when you can do all of its functions elsewhere for free? Edit to bump a star: Functionality is much better than at launch, with a better searchable portion of the main rules. The subscription has been halved, but it should still be free.

So far, I haven't been able to build an accurate army list for any of the released codices. They remain broken for quite some time, before they might be corrected. Currently T'au are not allowed to select multiple weapons or wargear. Thousand Sons weren't able to select more than one psychic power. Very tough to justify the subscription, when this was promoted as a "great" tool. It's just great at taking up space on my hard drive currently.

There is an issue with it forgetting your armies when it updates and a bigger issue with options in the army builder not working right, but it's really a handy tool if you want a quick reference to check unit stats, warlord traits, relics, etc when you're deciding what to put in a list. Also, a lot of people got hung up at "Submitting Ident" after the last upgrade, I went and checked my GW account (and my credit card) and it turned out the free month(s) cleared my subscription information.

This is the second time my battle Forge armies have been erased. I just don't see why that happens. Also, when you select relics or warlord trait it should show on the unit you put it on. It's ridiculous to have to search around the app to find that after selection. If you're trying something new you even have to remember which you chose. The whole point of the app should be too remove pen and paper as much as possible.

I may have to come back and re-rate once they put some more work into this, but as is it won't open, even after updating the app and restarting my phone. I'd be willing to pay $5 (or $10) a month if all my codexes would be available off of the subscription; but don't see a point to having to buy a physical codex, and then pay monthly for a digital copy. $60 a year on top of 6 hardcopy 'dex's (mine and my kid's armies) each year, plus supplements, BRB? No thanks, I'd rather buy more models.

This app is marketed as "game-changing". It is anything but. It achieves the bare minimum necessary to be useable, but cannot justify paying for its subscription yet. And the only thing you can do with it for free is view a PDF of the core rules. Unless you need digital references to the 8th edition codices and books, just download the core rules and skip this for now.

App works now at least. Problem is the list builder is riddled with errors. Units are missing wargear options, points are sometimes wrong, and this takes longer to update than Battlescribe's volunteer roster editors do. For a paid app thats inexcusable. It needs to be supported better as far as error fixes and point updates. Also, there is no way to look up rules by faction for campaign books. For something like Octarius, all factions rules are just lumped together, makes them tough to find.

Temper your expectations. I do enjoy the interface of this app, and the datasheets for the weapons and baseline stats are correct. Referencing it during games is great!However, point values are skewed. For the majority of this app requiring a subscription based service, this could absolutely be better. I know a lot of people use non official sources for list building, and I have had to do that as well. This app could be so much more. Would really like some QA for the paid features of this app.

Many typos and errors, and desperately needs a filtering or sorting function. If this is going to be my reference during games, it has a long way to go: currently there's no mechanism for getting all the rules for a single faction across all sources in one place, or even for filtering any of the supplements for only the faction you need. Honestly I'm only giving it 2 stars because offering all the content from the 8e books to bridge the gap is handy, even if usability is a pain.

Major departure from the AOS app. Can tell it was rushed out. Crashes when searching too fast, no way to sort or search by faction, not a lot of functionality in general, and you can't reference rules yet (have to pay sub). To those saying the bad reviews are unwarranted and are people "wanting to complain," go check out the age of sigmar app. The free version provides data sheets for units, allows you save them for reference, and more.

Yeah... It's basically useless. I don't know why they even released it - why not wait? This also seems like a pretty big cash grab. On top of the models, the like 5 books you need to buy physically... Yeah why would I need this again? If they offered a discount on books bought on the app digitally maybe that would make sense. But I reiterate, this app is pretty useless. Check out how Warmachine&Hordes does it - a one time buy and you get ALL the rules including all updates. Won't support this.

Buggy, only worked on 1 of 3 devices I own, still crashed when on the last device. Program itself was said to have updated rules for previous edition until their codex came out, they were not up to date. When books come out, you lose your rules even if paying for a subscription, to me meaning once all books come out I am paying for nothing. They still have not gotten the army builder working.

After having the app since it's release, it has only gotten marginally better at finding information but it continues to disappoint. Army builder data has a ton of errors, trying to make a squad that each member can have different weapons is extremely painful, you can't copy models in a squad, and to top that off, you need to pay full price for a book to get access to information in an app you already pay a subscription for.

So. It's been a few months since this app's released. I use it from time to time to reference my codex. Today they've finally updated it, after months. And what is it? Well none other than the long-awaited army builder.... Locked behind the subscription. No I'm not joking. It's hardly better than battlescribe, just more flashy. If you're not a competitive player, the subscription is not worth the price, period. Even then, take some time to think about it and use that money to buy coffee.

Most reviews already cover what I also noticed. The free account just sends you to a Google doc which in short an extra step to get access to it. They showcase everything you can't have access to unless you pay. It would be better to just have what you can use and keep the paywall stuff out of the way unless you want to pay for it. The lack of execution of the free side of the app tells me they didn't care to support that end which I ended up not caring to go further with the app to support.

I'm a paying subscriber but I keep questioning why. Good: content is there for rules, codexes and FAQs. (Except the White Dwarf content for my Harlequins - can we get that please?) Bad: it's really tedious to actually get to the content you want to read - either scroll through multiple nested lists, or use what seems to be a pretty naive text search. There's a huge missed opportunity to use hyperlinks between related entries, e.g. based on keywords, faction context or rule names. There's a 3rd party website that does this much much better. Ugly: the hyped "Battle Forge" army builder still hasn't appeared. Again, there's a 3rd party app that does this reasonably well. Also ugly: so I'm paying a subscription to have access to 8th ed content? But when the new codexes come out, I can only get them online if I bought the book, so the 8th ed content is going away. (I generally only buy the books for the armies I play) Feature request: the "killer app" for me would be a tool to help manage stratagems. It would filter down available stratagems based on what is applicable to the units in my army and what turn/phase of the game I'm in.

Shame GW can't do better. Far too much scrolling. Information is difficult to access. For example, you have to search for books or scroll to them EVERY TIME. Why isn't there a "library section" for content I paid for? Errata isn't updated, which is ridiculous. GW can't playtest their games to get the publications right? OK, we're used to it. But they can't get rule changes integrated in their own app?! AND they want a subscription? Looks good, but more frustrating than helpful. Unsubscribed.

After recent update (space marine codex release) all of the space marine things I used to have access to are gone. Not even basic unit info. What exactly is my subscription getting me? I want this to work so badly. I love the AoS app and it is easily worth the money. Sadly, this is outclassed in every way by battlescribe. Hopefully in the next weeks (not months) we will see a solid turn around. Update: I bought the space marine codex and unlocked it. Missing weapons, missing wargear.....