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Age of Sigmar’s Got Point Costs? New Comp!

By Rob Baer | July 22nd, 2015 | Categories: Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40k Rumors

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Check out what some Age of Sigmar maniacs have made. This new app looks to be a great online tool for balancing Age of Sigmar!

Take it away Josef J.

Our whfb gaming group sat together for a whole week, thinking, discussing and even quarreling about how to save our beloved Warhammer Fantasy. Although we like the downscaling of AOS alot, we just couldnt find a way to generate roughly balanced armies.

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So we came up with an SDK System which simply throws together all utilizable information of a warscroll. This got very complex, so we digged in and generated precalculated point tables for each and every single model and all of its wargear combinations.
Its of course free for all the players and can be found here:

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bookmark it!

Is it completely balanced? Of course not! It is simply what you can make of the given warscroll values and you know what? It works! Not better but also not worse than the point cost system of the previous warhammer fantasy editions. Thats enough for us old veteran guys however. :)”
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So what exactly is this you ask? Well it’s an online system similar to the outstanding X-Wing Squadron Builder tool. That lets you literally build armies for play in Age of Sigmar. It can of course be updated and tweeked by the deveolpers so that if they find some brokeness they can easily fix it fast.
The best part may just be the “raw data” tab that exposes the underlying formulas and shows exactly why each unit is priced the way it is.  It’s not comp – it’s math.
I love that everyone is trying to really give this game a chance, kudos to this group of AoS Maniacs for giving the game perhaps the attention it deserves!
What say ye? 

About the Author: Rob Baer

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Rob Baer

Job Title: Managing Editor

Founded Spikey Bits in 2009

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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.

Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls. 

Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at the Las Vegas Open, each of which attracts thousands of players from around the world.

 

Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the 2011 Adepticon 40k Team Tournament. He was even featured for his painting in issue #304 of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf Magazine.

With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.

While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.