A Warhammer 40K army builder that knows what you already own.

A 40K list builder that reads your collection

Writing the list is the easy part. The part nobody's list builder helps with is the evening before the game, when you lay out the army and discover the Intercessors you counted twice are the same five models, or that the character the whole detachment leans on is still in shrinkwrap.

HobbyArmory does not treat the army builder as a separate tool. It is built on top of the collection you already track, right down to the individual model inside each box, so as units go into the list the builder counts them against what you own. Add a unit of ten and it tells you that you own six. By the time the points add up you are holding a roster and a shopping list at once.

10th edition and 11th edition, both supported

10th edition is supported in full: detachments and their rules, enhancements, stratagems, wargear options and current points. 11th edition is supported too, built around the new structure with multiple detachments and Detachment Points, using the real 11th edition datasheets and detachment rules rather than 10th edition data with a new label on it. You choose the edition when you start a list, and the app keeps the two apart instead of mixing rules from both.

• Detachments with their detachment rule, enhancements and stratagems attached
• Enhancements assigned to the right character, with their points counted into the total
• Wargear and loadouts picked model by model, with datasheet defaults already filled in
• Allies such as Agents of the Imperium, Imperial Knights and Chaos Daemons, with their points caps applied
• Warlord and Epic Hero handling, including the duplicate and legality rules
• Live points totals and composition warnings while you build rather than after

Every faction, and every Space Marine chapter

The full 40K roster is in the builder. Imperium covers Space Marines, Astra Militarum, Adepta Sororitas, Adeptus Custodes, Adeptus Mechanicus, Grey Knights, Imperial Knights and Agents of the Imperium. Chaos covers Chaos Space Marines, Death Guard, Thousand Sons, World Eaters, Emperor's Children, Chaos Daemons and Chaos Knights. Xenos covers Aeldari, Drukhari, Necrons, Orks, T'au Empire, Tyranids, Genestealer Cults and Leagues of Votann.

Space Marine players pick a chapter rather than a generic codex. Ultramarines, Blood Angels, Dark Angels, Space Wolves, Black Templars and Deathwatch all draw on the shared Space Marine datasheets while keeping their own detachments and characters, which is how the game actually works and not how most builders model it.

Combat Patrol without the workarounds

Combat Patrol is its own format in the app, with its own restrictions applied, so a small game does not mean fighting a matched play list builder into shape. It is a sensible place to start if the collection is one box deep so far.

Kill Team, built as Kill Team

Kill Team is in the app as its own game, not as a 40K list with a smaller points limit. You pick a team, the operatives it has to take are added for you, and the roster keeps the team rules, the team options such as Chapter Tactics, and the equipment list in one place. Team composition is checked as you go, so an illegal team gets flagged while you are building it.

Because a kill team is built from the same boxes as everything else, the operatives are matched back to your collection. The Kommandos on the shelf count towards the Kommandos on the roster, and the operatives you are missing show up the same way a missing squad does in a full army list.

Bring your existing 40K lists with you

Nothing needs retyping. The builder imports .ros and .rosz roster files, the format the other well known 40K list builders write, so an army you already have moves across intact, detachment and enhancements included, in 10th or 11th edition. Lists go back out as plain text or a PDF for an opponent or a tournament organiser, and share by link with anyone else running HobbyArmory. Writing .ros files back out is on the list.

From list to painted army

Because the list sits on top of your collection, it stays useful after the points add up. Every model in the army carries its paint status, so a 2000 point list also shows how much of it is finished and how much is still grey. Change a status once and it moves in the list, in your painting progress and in your backlog at the same time.

If you also play in the Mortal Realms, the Age of Sigmar army builder works the same way off the same collection.