WarFoundry

The past

Back in July 2002 I took the code for the Rollcall army builder application and started putting in my first modifications to make it Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition compatible. A version was finally released, but development and files went quiet for a while.

In March 2006 I started in earnest on Rollcall again, trying to improve the army builder and make it compatible with multiple systems so that I could re-introduce some of the crippled features that the GW Legal team told me to remove.

While the re-introduced features wouldn't work with our Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 files, the idea was that they would be available to those who made their own files for other games. The compromise should have kept everyone happy, but I quickly got disenfranchised with the major task of altering a Visual Basic application and so development stopped. I was also working in Linux more and more, so cross-platform applications were seeming more and more important.

The present

By March 2007 I had begun planning a new application to replace Rollcall and the other available army builder applications: WarFoundry! With a snappy name, a good idea of how Rollcall-esque army builders worked, and knowledge of how to best implement it from the ground up so it would be both cross-platform and multi-system, the work began.

The future

Developments will be posted here as they occur, on the progress page for detailed development progress, or on the updates page for site updates. Questions should be posted in the WarFoundry forum on the Hive World Terra forums.