If you’ve been holding out for an army builder app that works for the new 9th Edition 40k format the wait is over, Battlescribe is up to date and ready to run!
If you’ve never heard of Battlescribe, you’re missing out. It’s a fantastic army-builder app that keeps track of CP, detachments, wargear, etc. Perhaps the best part is that it doesn’t cost a dime to download and there’s no mandatory subscription.
With that said, you can also donate money ($2.99 a year) to the dedicated team of gamers in the community for the outstanding work they’ve done, and it gets you ad-free, favorite units, and more.
Here is the rundown on the update.
Battlescribe Army Builder APP Updated to 9th Edition 40k!
Coming from U/Strategizer on Reddit, they’ve announced that Battlescribe is updated with the following armies for 9th Edition 40k:
- Aeldari – Craftworlds.cat
- Aeldari – Drukhari.cat
- Aeldari – FW Corsairs.cat
- Aeldari – Harlequins.cat
- Aeldari – Ynnari.cat
- Chaos – Chaos Space Marines.cat
- Chaos – Daemons.cat
- Chaos – Death Guard.cat
- Chaos – FW Heretic Astartes.cat
- Chaos – Gellerpox Infected.cat
- Chaos – Questor Traitoris.cat
- Chaos – Servants of the Abyss.cat
- Chaos – Thousand Sons.cat
- Chaos – Titanicus Traitoris.cat
- Fallen.cat
- Imperium – Adeptus Astra Telepathica.cat
- Imperium – Adeptus Custodes.cat
- Imperium – Adeptus Mechanicus.cat
- Imperium – Adeptus Sororitas.cat
- Imperium – Astra Militarum.cat
- Imperium – Black Templars.cat
- Imperium – Blackstone Fortress.cat
- Imperium – Blood Angels.cat
- Imperium – Dark Angels.cat
- Imperium – Deathwatch.cat
- Imperium – Elucidian Starstriders.cat
- Imperium – FW Adeptus Astartes.cat
- Imperium – FW Death Korps of Krieg.cat
- Imperium – Grey Knights.cat
- Imperium – Imperial Fists.cat
- Imperium – Inquisition.cat
- Imperium – Iron Hands.cat
- Imperium – Legion of the Damned.cat
- Imperium – Officio Assassinorum.cat
- Imperium – Imperial Knights.cat
- Imperium – Raven Guard.cat
- Imperium – Salamanders.cat
- Imperium – Sisters of Silence.cat
- Imperium – Space Marines.cat
- Imperium – Space Wolves.cat
- Imperium – Titan Legions.cat
- Imperium – Ultramarines.cat
- Imperium – White_Scars.cat
- Necrons.cat
- Orks.cat
- T’au Empire.cat
- Tyranids – Genestealer Cults.cat
- Tyranids.cat
- Unaligned – Monsters and Gribblies.cat
If you don’t know how to get from the 8th Edition format to 9th Edition, we’ve got the steps to follow below.
Once you download the app, you tap the three buttons in the top right and go to Manage Data.
Scroll down until you see Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition and check the box. Also, if you’re still wanting to stick to 8th Edition, they saved a copy and you can also download the format a bit further down.
Finally, you can go back to the army building section of the app and start plugging in your units. It looks like everything is working as the points seem to be correct and the detachments you choose take away from the CP pool now. 
It’s also worth noting that finer details like the fact that if you take a Titanic unit in your Super-Heavy Detachment changes the base cost from 3CP to 6CP.
While we’ve had too wait just 48 hours after 9th Edition’s official release, it seems that we’ve got an app functioning leagues above what the Warhammer 40k army builder app is able to do. On that note, we’re probably going to see a few tweaks made to the 9th Edition Battlescribe section of the app over the coming days as they fine-tune things. But if you’ve got some time on your hands you can already start plugging in your lists!
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