Army Builder is the leading army list construction tool. It helps players prepare for a game and Battle Chronicler helps players after a game to record the action. Up until now there has been no way to link the two. An army list had to be entered into both systems.
In the latest version Battle Chronicler supports Army Builder. So you can create you army roster in Army Builder, play the game and them import the roster directly into Battle Chronicler, saving precious minutes of your time and making battle reports even easier to produce.
Battle Chronicler has always produced maps to illustrate a battle report and now the new version can help write the battle report itself.
Battle Chronicler can calculate the exact distance a unit has moved, taking into account wheeled movement calculations.
To help those that use that use Battle Chronicler to play online with a remote opponent a new secret notes feature has been added.
The number of symbols that can be used to portray a unit has been increased from two to three. Symbols can now be placed outside the unit as well as inside the unit.
Battle Chronicler is delighted to announce the release of a massive expansion set of terrain components. Gerry Elliott has photographed his impressive terrain collection and has allowed them to be used free for non-commercial use. The new 'Napoleonic' terrain set includes items that were missing up until now, such as five different bridges and battlements. There are also over two dozen buildings allowing you map out an entire village. The images are all high resolution and so look great even when the map is zoomed right in. So many thanks to Gerry for a great contribution to the Battle Chronicler community.
To install the new terrain simply download and install the official collection from the Battle Chronicler Components page.
Battle Chronicler contains some great scenery that can really add to the realism of the maps. However sometimes the terrain can make it harder to concentrate on the units themselves. So a new feature has been added called a Table Overlay. This has a fog like effect on the terrain, which makes the units stand out more. This is the technique used to present battle report maps in the magazine from the leading table top war games company.
Movement arrows are being added to Battle Chronicler. The arrows are drawn automatically as a unit is moved, so there is no extra work involved. The arrows are still very much in development right now as the maths is very complex and it difficult to get good looking arrows for every possible movement. They will look great and its going to be a big step forward for Battle Chronicler.
Work has started on the new version of Battle Chronicler.
Here are some of the ideas could be included:
Any comments, suggestions and new ideas are very welcome.
A bug has been found in BC. Editing the colors of an army template would cause an error message to be displayed.
The bug has been fixed, a new version 8.2 is now available on the download page which fixes it.
Thanks again for reporting it Akorig.
A new Google Group Battle Chronicler forum has been set up. So if you want support, or just want to share your views on Battle Chronicler, or publicize your battle reports the please join the group.
Also updated is the 'Examples' page to include some of the best battle reports made by BC users.
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Battle Chronicler has enhanced to enable it to produce much bigger images, which are needed for professional printing.
Follow this link to the the huge version. This shows the map 5000 pixels wide. This shows off the power of the Battle Chronicler graphics engine as the clarity of the small detail just gets better as the image grows. It will take a while for it to load and you will need to scroll around it with your browser.
The Ancible is what the Sci-fi and Fantasy gaming community have been crying out for. Finally a magazine that gets passionate about science fiction and fantasy wargaming. It has something for everyone from fanatic collectors with their pristine packaging, hardened gamers with their well thumbed rule books, acrylic spattered painters, and even new players who are beginning to see the possibilities of the games we play. It will cover the games we know and love and introduce people to the games they don't yet know.
The Ancible is a great new magazine and one of its best features is its battle report, for which they chose to use Battle Chronicler to produce. It has been great to support them in this and their professional requirements and feedback has led to improvements in the quality of the images produced by Battle Chronicler, which are now available to all in version 0.8.
The Battle Chronicler web site has been moved to a new hosting company. This will hopefully lead to greater reliability and faster response times.
The one problem with the move has been in transferring the forum, as the new host does not support the forum package we were using on the old one. So I am currently investigating the best options to get a forum going again.
In the meantime if you need support or want to make a comment please use the form on the download page.
So thanks in advance for your patience.
There were a lot of great comments on the forum and these have been archived and I hope to put these back online whatever new forum solution is found.