I registered and added me to the map, all worked fine this time.

Good work on the site Having a model database is a good idea and possibly including alternative sold models such Onslaught (if he is happy to have his models listed) but please do not list images of OOP forumware (not even if they're marked as OOP). It's risky, attracts attention and IMO is a very bad idea.

Hi elsmore,

I did some initial work a while back on a system for building and displaying armies, units, lists etc. If you're serious about the unit database and formatting lists, it seems relevant.

I only implemented part of this, but the idea is that you basically have a database of units and their stats, linked into the different army lists they appear in, which is then used to drive various other tools (like formatters for HTML and PDF army books, battle results trackers). Unit dependencies between lists would be tracked, so your could have a tool for list developers, with warnings when you modify the stats of a shared unit, weapon or special rule. Meaning stats are entered in one place, and generating the compendium, tournament packs, reference sheets etc is easy. It would be cool if this was an ecosystem used by multiple distinct apps (Adam's army forge for example), but the important thing for that is to have the data readily available in a structured format (eg JSON web service) that is not tailored to any one application.

Most of it is pie in the sky but I have a pretty good idea of how it could all work

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Kyrt's Battle Result Tracker (forum post is here)
Kyrt's trade list

The Mini Moments are a brilliant idea!

You are doing a fantastic job! *thumb up

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If you're thinking of enabling some sort of list dev app, it'd be a good idea to bear in mind that the data model will need to be very granular, e.g. represent the to hit value of a given weapon on a given unit (or shared by multiple) in a given version of a given list in a given race in a given game system. That's not a trivial thing to implement because each one is its own type of entity with its own properties attached, especially since you won't need it for your own app from the beginning.

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Kyrt's Battle Result Tracker (forum post is here)
Kyrt's trade list

I could help with the mini DB.

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I know the LR page is only a mockup, but if you're being thorough you're missing the Adeptus Titanicus-era metal model and 1-2 later metal Chaos LRs.

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The Miniature Gallery comes across very slick - like it!

Painter's credits are missing though.

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