fartsocks Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Inspired by a comment in another thread, combined with a little bit of being bored at work, I decided to knock up a little website that takes your army list from scrollbuilder and prints out a "cheat sheet" of the rules that you might forget to use, ordered by phase ( movement, shooting, combat etc). The method of loading your army in is a bit awkward at the moment, so I've pre-populated the text field with a sample army, so you can just click go and see the result. It could do with a bit of tidying up and I've only added rules for a few units, but want to see if there's any interest in me carrying on with it. Any comments/suggestions also appreciated. https://philrange.github.io/aos-rules-reminder/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garxia Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Looks good so far and seems really useful too. My only suggestion would be to lessen the size of the "buffs" so we can try to fit the whole army in the same sheet. Keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 Cool, thanks. By buffs did you mean the coloured bits? Either way, the formatting can easily be tweaked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblinclub Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 This is looking great! I'll definitely be using it regularly. Any idea how long it'll take you to get it up and running properly? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 The slow part is adding all the rules. Once I get the format sorted (hopefully over the weekend), I'll probably suggest people add rules for the units they want to use so you don't have to wait for me to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblinclub Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Looking forward to it. I've just made a cheat sheet but it'll certainly be useful in the future. It'll also mean the players I play regularly can get one in the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerrorPenguin Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 Yes! THis looks great, I am forever forgetting to do stuff in my hero phase! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 I didn't have as much time as I'd hoped this weekend, but made a few changes, mainly to how it looks. I couldn't think of an easy way to pick up things like weapon loadouts, unit size etc, (at least based on how scrollbuilder stores those options) so I just load all the rules for each unit, and there's the option to exclude ones that don't apply before you print. I need to make a change to make the rules for artifacts and command traits show up, but other than that, I just need all the rules typed up. Any volunteers would be appreciated, otherwise it'll be quite slow for me to do them all myself. https://philrange.github.io/aos-rules-reminder/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turragor Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 You're still working on this right? I mean in the sense that if I take an army I've made and use the URL (from the N4 it looks like, subtracting scrollbuilder.com/?) it is normal that it returns an error? In my example case ' Error loading file for Stormcast ' If I copy the full URL (or any other text) I get no result at all so I assume I have the gist of how you load it (I only guessed based on your sample text, I'm not sure if there were instructions elsewhere). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 Yep, you worked it out correctly. It breaks because I have only created a rules file for Duardin, and that only has rules for a few units in. Here's the file I have so far, in case anyone wants to help out, hint hint philrange.github.com/aos-rules-reminder/data/duardin.json Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblinclub Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 This is an awesome project but I've got no time at all free at the moment. I have a busy life anyway, and I've only got a few weeks to get my army painted up for Blood and Glory. I really hope you get help with this though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerrorPenguin Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 11 hours ago, fartsocks said: Yep, you worked it out correctly. It breaks because I have only created a rules file for Duardin, and that only has rules for a few units in. Here's the file I have so far, in case anyone wants to help out, hint hint philrange.github.com/aos-rules-reminder/data/duardin.json I am happy to give the death stuff a go, may need you to check my markup though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 49 minutes ago, TerrorPenguin said: I am happy to give the death stuff a go, may need you to check my markup though No problem. If you're familiar with github, you can submit it as a pull request on there. Otherwise, send me the file and I'll make sure it works before adding it. For anyone who wants to help out but doesn't understand how to use json, I'm happy for you to put the details into an excel spreadsheet or something, and I'll convert to json. I can create a template for you to fill in if necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turragor Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Im happy to work on a template. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerrorPenguin Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 yeah in all honesty I'm probably better with a spreadsheet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 I made this page which may or may not be of help in building json. If not, make a spreadsheet with the same columns. https://philrange.github.io/aos-rules-reminder/add.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turragor Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Would this input be correct for (example) liberators? {"Liberators":{"rules":[{"phase":"COMBAT","type":"BUFF","value":"+1","name":"Lay Low the Tyrants","text":"Add 1 to all hit roles for liberator models attacking models with wounds of 5 or more"},{"phase":"COMBAT","type":"REROLL","value":"1","name":"Sigmarite Shields","text":"Reroll any saves of 1 for units with sigmarite shields"},{"phase":"COMBAT","type":"OTHER","value":"1","name":"Liberator Prime","text":"3 attacks rather than 2"}]}} Note: The liberator prime is a stat more than anything. Note 2: The reroll saves is all saves (so independent of phase) - is there something I should choose when it's independent of phasing? Can I select 'select phase' as a kind of 'n/a'? Note 3: I'm just realising that the whole point is to abbreviate rules for warscrolls and as such I'll be rewriting the longer entries. If I misunderstand something and rewrite it shorter based on this misunderstanding it'll warp the rule. Now, I don't misunderstand anything with Stormcast (but then, I wouldn't know if I did unless it was clarified would I?) but I'm thinking if this is open source there's a risk that an abbreviated, subtly different rule might spread amongst those using this. Do you proof the rule entries? Are you above misunderstandings with all rules? Feels like using the full rule text is almost better in that sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 Good points. I've just been pasting in the full rule to avoid confusion (and avoid having to think too much ), but I did include the rule name so you can more easily look it up in the warscroll, so shortening the rule might be ok. I guess I'll need to add a section for rules that can happen in any phase. Yeah, leave it on "select phase" if it doesn't apply to a phase I didn't bother putting in rules for stuff like musicians/standard bearers/champions as they're fairly common and generally do the same thing for most units, (eg. extra attack for champion/prime) but it might be worth adding them in. Your json looks mostly fine. The value field (which could be better named) should have something like "to hit" in it. The text in "value" is what gets displayed in the coloured blocks alongside the icon. You can also omit the value field where it doesn't apply. This is getting more complicated than I first thought... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 I'd rewrite those rules as this, with my changes in bold. Forgot to mention that when the type is BUFF, then +1 shows up automatically, no need to type it in. I'm not sure if there are any rules that have a +2 buff, if so, this might need tweaking.{"Liberators":{"rules":[{"phase":"COMBAT","type":"BUFF","value":"to hit","name":"Lay Low the Tyrants","text":"Add 1 to all hit roles for liberator models attacking models with wounds of 5 or more"},{"phase":"COMBAT","type":"REROLL","value":"save","name":"Sigmarite Shields","text":"Reroll any saves of 1 for units with sigmarite shields"},{"phase":"COMBAT","type":"BUFF","value":"attack","name":"Liberator Prime","text":"3 attacks rather than 2"}]}} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turragor Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Thanks! If I want to edit or rewrite using the template can I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 Sorry, it's not that clever. If you want to change something, you'll have to copy and paste the json, and edit it manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 I added the Liberator rules so you can see what it turns out like on the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turragor Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Looks grand! Just the fact that the save should be in shooting too I guess. It also loads all the dwarf template as well as liberators when I paste the link I created with only liberators. Not sure if thats cache related orrr something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fartsocks Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 Looks like if you press restart, it doesn't delete the old rules. There was a commented out line saying "todo" I've sorted that now. You're right. I've just copy and pasted that rule but with the phase set to shooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrollbuilderdude Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 This is great! We should talk about integrating this with the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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