I used to use Excel for army lists, but Army Builder is so much easier as you can switch between multiple game systems and multiple armies within each system and whip up builds very quickly.
I used to use Excel for army lists, but Army Builder is so much easier as you can switch between multiple game systems and multiple armies within each system and whip up builds very quickly.
I use a similair but less advanced army builder called The Forge. It's free and their is also a pocket pc version of it. It calculated points and i find it really handy. The only bad thing is that you must find the seperate army datalist. Below is a link for a yahoo group with pretty much every armies datalist and also the link for the program itself.
As for data lists check out the link I posted below. You will need to make a Yahoo acount, which is free, to access the data lists.
[URL="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forge-files/files/"]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forge-files/files/[/URL]
Here is the link for the program
[URL="http://www.thedigitalfoundry.com/forge/"]http://www.thedigitalfoundry.com/forge/[/URL]
Call me old and sad but I enjoy sitting down with the book, rosta pad and calculator. I find it quite relaxing.
Yes it's worth it IMHO, even just for the single year, as once that has expired, you can just download the updates from the site, rather than automatically.
It's good also because it allows you to look uplist for non-GW games as well