I’ve relaunched Herald for Battle Reports. It mostly still works and is suitable for writing battle reports for Warhammer: The Old World. It’s open source, although in the 12 years its been available, nobody else has really touched it but me 🙂 Still, it’s something I use and now you can too.
Originally written for rankandflank.com.
I’ve decided to close the source of Herald. No one else contributed to it, and the game it was designed for has died (RIP WHFB). I’m doing some active development on a new app for Kings of War, and I want to be able to keep that work closed source for now.
In preparation for the US Masters, I posted all the maps onto Herald in read only mode.
If you want to deploy your army on there, just go to Herald and create your army:
Open up the Report tab in the control panel, and save your army:
You’ll get a short code that is your army ID – copy this for later pasting. Now you can open up one of the maps above, and merge your army onto it. Open the Report tab on the map of your choice and paste in your army short code. Make sure you check the “Merge” check box and then click Load Report. Click “Start Report” to lock the scenery in place, and then have fun deploying your army!
I’ve not had a lot of time recently to work on Herald, so I’ve decided to make the source of it available on github. Please feel free to fork the repository there, make changes, submit any back that you think would benefit the project as a whole. Hopefully this work will help someone.
In general, my job has taken up all my spare time, so I’ve not had time to be on any forums, paint any miniatures or play any games (yes, it’s a bad situation). Hopefully these circumstances will change in the next month or two and I’ll be able to get back into painting, modeling and gaming again.
I’ve added the ability to save your report, which actually starts to make the software really usable. It’s a little bit ghetto, but easy enough to use. In the Game tab, click the “Export Report” button and a bunch of text will appear in a text area which you can then save in a file, e-mail to your buddy, whatever. Copy and paste that same text back into the text area and hit “Load Report” and you’re back in business.
Final features to be implemented should be done this week. I’ll be adding action icons to indicate things like shooting, death, and so forth. And most importantly, I’ll show battle damage to units, so that you can see the strength of the unit deteriorate (and grow, if you’re pesky undead) over the course of the battle. Once that’s all complete, I’ll take Herald out of alpha and start announcing the beta to a wider audience.
I’m pleased to announce the ‘alpha’ release for my Herald Battle Reporter software. You can read all about Herald here on my blog or you can just jump right in and start playing with the tool by clicking on the link below.