Frequently Asked Questions

ArmyCalc aims to give you a free online solution to create army lists and calculate points for any tabletop war gaming system army. It can also validate army using defined set of rules and print it or save to *.pdf file.

Unregistered users can use the sandbox to see how the ArmyCalc online army editor looks like.

After free registration you will get access to "Your Armies" panel where You can create armies for other gaming systems and store them online. You will also get access to our forum and other community related things.

ArmyCalc's Eye is a multiplatform open-source application. It works on Linux, Windows and will soon work on MacOS X. You can also download the sources and compile it on any system You like (it is using Qt libs).

ace works in similar matter that ArmyCalc online editor. It uses the same Ruleset file format so You can create one Ruleset and build Your armies online or take a laptop with ace into battle.

More informations, screenshots and download links can be found at project subpage at ace.armycalc.com.

Because there are a lot of different gaming systems around the world, we need a way to store informations about how army can certain game system. RuleSet is a piece of data that contains list of units available in certain game system and possible upgrades that can be applied to this units(in a form of a tree). It also contain information about how to change created army into a PDF file and a set of rules that can be used to validate your army.

You can share Your RuleSets with friends but You can also make one on your own. For information about how to create your own RuleSet see 'Creating Rulesets'.

Because both ArmyCalc and ace uses open "*.twr" file format. This means that if you are making a Ruleset You do not work for any company. Results of Your work is owned only by You. This also means that anyone can implement their own army editor that uses this standard. You would like to do a mobile editor to calculate points with Your cell phone? No problem.

This is of course only one advantage of ace. Furhermore does anything else give you a possibility to create armies online and offline? using the same format?

This project is steal in BETA version, but We use it daily for creating our armies and it works! There are still some things to do but we are constantly going forward.

To register at ArmyCalc you just need to go to registration form and follow instructions. Remember to give proper email address so the activation link can get there. Some mail providers will consider automatic mail from ArmyCalc as spam, so please check your spam folder also.

Feel free to ask anything You need do know on our Forum.