An Age of Sigmar army builder that knows what you already own.

An AoS list builder that reads your collection

The awkward part of Age of Sigmar list building has never been the points. It is the moment two days later when you lay the army out on the table and find you are four Vanguard-Raptors short, or that the Hero you built the whole regiment around is still on the sprue.

HobbyArmory closes that gap because the army builder and your collection are the same thing. The app already knows every box you own down to the individual miniature inside it, so as you add units the builder counts them against what you actually have. Add a unit of ten and it tells you that you own six. Add a Hero you have never bought and it says so. When the list is done you have a roster and a shopping list at the same time.

Built for Age of Sigmar 4th edition

The builder follows the 4th edition army structure rather than bolting AoS onto a 40K shaped tool. That means the whole 4th edition vocabulary is in there, kept current from the community catalogue data so new warscrolls and points changes arrive without waiting for an app update.

• Regiments built behind a Hero, with the 4th edition size limits applied as you add units and each hero's regiment options shown as you go
• Battle formations for every faction, listed with the abilities they grant
• Armies of Renown for the factions that have them, with their battle trait and their own enhancement pool in place of the formation
• Heroic traits, artefacts of power and mount traits, assigned per Hero from the right pool
• Spell, prayer and manifestation lores chosen at list level, with the full spell text attached
• Reinforced units handled properly, doubling both models and points in one tap
• Regiments of Renown and their allied slot
• Live points totals and composition warnings while you build, not after the list is finished

Every faction, all four Grand Alliances

Order, Chaos, Death and Destruction are all covered, with full warscroll data, battle traits and points. That runs from Stormcast Eternals, Cities of Sigmar, Daughters of Khaine, Fyreslayers, Idoneth Deepkin, Kharadron Overlords, Lumineth Realm-lords, Seraphon and Sylvaneth, through Skaven, Slaves to Darkness, Blades of Khorne, Disciples of Tzeentch, Maggotkin of Nurgle and Hedonites of Slaanesh, to Nighthaunt, Soulblight Gravelords, Ossiarch Bonereapers, Flesh-eater Courts, Gloomspite Gitz, Ironjawz, Kruleboyz, Ogor Mawtribes and Sons of Behemat.

The faction data refreshes on a schedule rather than by hand, so a points update or a new battletome does not leave the builder a season behind.

Spearhead as its own format

Spearhead is not a smaller matched play game, so it is not treated like one. It is supported as its own format, with every boxed Spearhead force in the app. Pick your faction and your box and the units come in already fixed, exactly as the force is defined, so there is no points total to balance and nothing to add or remove.

What you do choose is the part the rules leave open: one of the two regiment abilities and one of the four enhancements, and you can swap either of them later without rebuilding the force. Each unit keeps its own card with Move, Health, Save and Control and its warscroll abilities, and the whole force is checked against your collection like any other list, so a Spearhead box you have not finished building says so.

Bring your existing AoS lists with you

You do not have to retype anything. The builder imports .ros and .rosz roster files, the format the other well known Age of Sigmar list builders write, so a matched play army you already have moves across in one go. Lists go back out as plain text or a PDF for an opponent or a tournament organiser, or shared by link with anyone else running HobbyArmory. Writing .ros files back out is on the list.

From list to painted army

Because the list sits on top of your collection rather than beside it, it does not stop being useful once the points add up. Every model in the army carries its paint status, so you can open a 2000 point list and see how much of it is genuinely finished and how much is bare plastic. Update a status once and it moves in the list, in your painting progress and in your backlog together.

If you play both systems, the Warhammer 40K army builder works the same way off the same collection.