The name may be a little weird, but if you were looking for an easy way to make datacards for your Warhammer 40k army, this may be the perfect solution!
There’s a game aide out there called Buttscribe (Yes, it’s legit) that turns your list entries from Battlescribe into a new form. While you might have a system already worked out for quick referencing your armies, you may want to give this a try.
Make Your Own 40k Datacards For Your Games!
If you plug your list into Battlescribe on your phone, you can always email the list to yourself and open it on your computer. Otherwise, if you do everything from your computer already, just save your list by clicking “HTML” or “Save Roster”. Next, you’ll need to choose the file that you named it and open it up on Buttscribe. When you do this, it should take a minute but pop up as:
Notice that it’ll look a little different from what you’re used to seeing in Battlescribe. This is a streamlined list that trims away the Wargear and other options, yet keep the points tallied correctly to whatever you have equipped on your units. Plus, it shows all the battlefield roles and detachment listing more clearly. But there’s more.
These sheets should appear down below similar to the datasheets that you’d find in your book. However, they’ll also appear with any psychic powers/wargear options you put on them which is extremely useful if you don’t have data cards or a codex on-hand.
You can always cut these out and laminate them to make them last forever. If you were wondering what those white boxes were near the bottom of the unit profile were, those are actually the units’ wounds. Once you laminate them, you can get an erasable marker and check off each point of damage in the box. It keeps you from having to use any wound counters on the table and gets rid of the confusion between wound markers and a dice roll.
With this game aide covered, will you be giving it a try? Do you like the idea of laminated datasheets? What do you use to make your lists?
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About the Author: Wesley Floyd
Wesley Floyd
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About Wesley Floyd: Wes has been in the Warhammer hobby since 2015 and joined the Spikey Bits writing team in 2018. He is known for his satirist takes on trending topics and imaginative yet amazingly affordable hobby solutions to painting Warhammer miniatures.
Imperial fanboy, tabletop fanatic, and the self-proclaimed King of Sprues. He knows for a fact that Mephiston red is the best-tasting paint and is the commission painting equivalent of a Wendy’s 4 for $4. If you like what he writes and want to contact him or have your tabletop minatures painted (to a mostly okayish standard), message him on Instagram.
