Battle Planner: Crimson Skies v3.15

• Added auto update checking (will try and check one for day for updates)
• Added bug report tool option (and on button bar next to clear all filters)
• Added Fortune Hunters and LEs
• Added Fortune Hunter pics (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed sort order for virtual figures
• Fixed sorting of filter group boxes - was reversed (Thx runab0ut)
• Fixed faction colors to match up w/ plane colors (tokens are now black)

Battle Planner: Hero Clix v3.15

• Added Cosmic Justice - first pass (Thx DocX!)
• Added Cosmic Justice Pics (Thx Lee Robinson!)
• Added auto update checking (will try and check one for day for updates)
• Added bug report tool option (and on button bar next to clear all filters)
• Fixed Bukharin spelling (Thx Willi W�rfelgl�ck!)
• Fxed E Daredevil, R Superman, V Wolverine, U Wolverine, V Changeling, V Swamp Thing (Thx Joe Schuler!)
• Fixed LE Doctor Doom (Thx goutetsu!)
• Fixed LE Victor Creed arch enemies (Thx Molina, Gannon!)
• Fixed veteran vampire lackey (Thx Rich!)
• Fixed speed column/filter (Thx Dr0ctopus!)
• Fixed sorting for virtual figures
• Fixed sorting of filter group boxes - was reversed (Thx runab0ut)
• Added berserker wolverine pic (Thx Gannon!)
• Fixed experienced shadowcat (Thx StormWind!)

Battle Planner: Mage Knight v3.15

• Added auto update checking (will try and check one for day for updates)
• Added bug report tool option (and on button bar next to clear all filters)
• Fixed rank listing on some unlimited LEs (Thx IcyingDeath!)
• Fixed sorting for virtual figures
• Fixed sorting of filter group boxes - was reversed (Thx runab0ut)

Battle Planner: Mech Warrior v3.15

• Added auto update checking (will try and check one for day for updates)
• Added bug report tool option (and on button bar next to clear all filters)
• Added lots of new LEs (Thx MWRealms)
• Fixed sorting of filter group boxes - was reversed (Thx runab0ut)
• Fixed/added several LE pics (Thx runab0ut)
• Fixed Mikos Wolf (Thx Herb)
• Fixed DFA 092 - Construction Mech MkII Elite (Thx glasswalker)
• Fixed artillery token for DFA 055 (Thx runab0ut & Topgun505)
• Fixed DfA 010 targets (Thx ronfabian)
• Fixed DF Crow, Lisabet Wolf
• Fixed DFA DF SM1 (Thx myers, wparana)
• Fixed DFA RotS SM1 (Thx Jibben)
• Fixed cost on LE Sniper (Thx winans)

Battle Planner: CS v3.14

• Updated glyphs (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed rank of tokens to tokens, pilots to legend
• Fixed orange and blue color swap on pilot abilities (Thx Christian!)
• Fixed pilot speed abilities to use speed glyphs (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed spelling for megadeth death quote (Thx Gordon!)

Battle Planner: MK v3.14

• Fixed unlimited standard and tough khamsin gunslinger (Thx GreatLordFarlander!)
• Added uprising glyphs (Thx Robert!)
• Added more Uprising LEs (Thx runab0ut, ltworf, mkrealms!)
• Fixed weak dwarven bombard (Thx greatlordfarlander!)
• Fixed spelling for megadeth death quote (Thx Gordon!)

Battle Planner: MW v3.14

• Added artillery tokens for FFE 108, 109, 110, DFA 040 (Thx runab0ut!)
• Made artillery info for FFE LEs and DFA figs filterable
• Added repair ticks to storm hammer towed artillery (Thx Mark, Marcus!)
• Fixed several sculpt links
• Fixed targets on green crow scout helicopter (Thx Jeffrey!)
• Fixed SS Construction Mech MOD-B (Thx Acacian, Basko, Phillip!)
• Updated SEC text to latest FAQ (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed pulse SEC text (Thx Doc O!)
• Fixed DFA #81 (Thx Acacian, Jeff, Basko, Sunny & Phillip!)
• Fixed DA #30 (Thx Sutton!)
• Fixed DFA #48 (Thx tirinthalas!)
• Fixed DFA #16(Thx bwaldick!)
• Added more LEs - FFE 111, 112, 115, 117, 119, 120, 121, 132 (Thx MW Realms!)
• Fixed spelling for megadeth death quote (Thx Gordon!)

Battle Planner: HC v3.14

• Fixed vet Dr. Doom (Thx genin!)
• Fixed spelling for megadeth death quote (Thx Gordon!)
• Added LEs (Thx HCRealms!)
• Fixed target glyph on ffe elite ji 100 (Thx Robert!)

Well, I'm back from Wizards World East now and we've finally got a respectable Death From Above release ready, plus lots of other little fixes - nothing new for Crimson Skies though.

Plus, hooray, hurrah! We're very excited to be able to participate in the opening of the first game store in Spanish Fork, Utah: Game On! So if you're ever in the area do drop by and game with us. If you can't make it down that far there's another great game store in Provo: Dragons Keep where we still plan to hang out whenever we can.

But in any case, yackety smackety, on to the release notes that no one ever reads:

Battle Planner: Mage Knight v3.13

• Fixed sort for #s to sort by faction
• Fixed tough amotep maiden (Thx greatlordfarlander)
• Fixed striking range calculation when not in 'best' or 'best ranged' stats mode (Thx Martin)

Battle Planner: Mech Warrior v3.13

• Fixed MWRealms synch for DFA (Thx bwaldick)
• Added DFA fig pics, lots of new icons, fixed SC Ghost, Green Construction Mech Mod B (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed Green Construction Mech MkII Mod (Thx junk, Maakeff)
• Fixed Elite J-37 (Thx wparana)
• Fixed Elite DI Towed Field Artillery (Thx Thanatos, Aidan101)
• Fixed arcs on DFA 81, 82, 83 (Thx Stephen)
• Fixed artillery flag on a few more units (Thx emouse2k)
• Fixed veteran Construction Mech Mk II Mod (Thx ronfabian)

Battle Planner: Hero Clix v3.13

• Fixed vet viper points (Thx Lance)
• Fixed exp thug points (Thx Traig)
• Fixed Blastaar of Baluur (Thx Gacy's Clown)
• Added Whitney Frost (Thx wooberhead)
• Added Mac Gargan (Thx David)

Battle Planner: Crimson Skies v3.12

• Fixed factions for ace plans (Thx Nigel, others)

Battle Planner: Mech Warrior v3.12

• Added VTOL, Storm Hammers, AA
• Fixed playtips for Bellona Tank (Thx Aaron!)
• Added several more LEs (Thx MWRealms and runab0ut!)
• Added several Pics (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed sort for #s to sort by faction
• Added dropship turrents - they need to be done better, but you can at least peruse them for now (Thx MWRealms)
• And oh yeah - added first pass at Death From Above - figure images, fig #92, playtips missing, but they'll be added for 3.13 (Thx MWRealms!)

Battle Planner: Crimson Skies v3.11

• First good release of Crimson Skies (should only be minor, minor cosmetic ui issues left to do)

Battle Planner: Hero Clix v3.11

• Fixed some LEs that were coded as uniques (Thx IcyingDeath!)
• Fixed Emerald Warder (Thx Woodstock)
• Added images/sculpt info for Uprising LEs

Battle Planner: Mage Knight v3.11

• Fixed LE Cygnus heat dial (Thx Bandin!)
• Renamed "Knights of the Sphere" to "Republic of the Sphere"
• Fixed repair SEC text to specify target icon types (Thx Buccaneer)
• Fixed repair tick for BR Bellona (Thx Aidan101)
• Fixed artillery range for SS Long Tom (Thx Robert)
• Fixed Kriya Wolf heat dial (Thx RBlackberg)

Battle Planner: Mech Warrior v3.11

• Added sculpts for Summer LEs (Thx Dylan!)
• Fixed points for Rookie Constrictor (Thx Whiddon!)
• Fixed Xplosion Viper (Thx NimRod_Fox!)
• Added Sarah St. John and Emil Blonski (Thx Ron!)
• Added arch enemy info for XPlosion (Thx Jeremy!)

Battle Planner: Hero Clix v3.09

• Added Summer LEs (Thx HCRealms!)
• Fixed experienced Captain America (Thx Jonathan)
• Fixed hawkman damage (Thx Chris)

Battle Planner: Mage Knight v3.09

• Added Summer LEs (Thx MKRealms!)
• Updated SA rules per latest FAQ (Thx greatlordfarlander)
• Added elite KI/AG faction image (Thx Todd!)

Battle Planner: Mech Warrior v3.09

• Added Summer LEs (Thx MWRealms!)
• Added several LE pics (Thx runab0ut and trigg3r!)

Battle Planner: Mage Knight v3.08

• Added uprising figures and images (Thx MKRealms, runab0ut!)
• Fixed faction for Amotep Treva (Thx Robert!)
• Added Amaset (Thx Angus)

Battle Planner: Mage Knight v3.07

• New: Filters are now always cleared on load. This will hopefully reduce the # of "I can't find such and such fig in my inventory or army and I just added it" type emails, and won't be a big inconvenience to the rest. If it is, complain and we'll make it an option to restore current, persistent filter behavior (we're still working on saving multiple filters per view, don't worry!
• New: Figure abilities and statistics (the button in the top rightish corner) now always reverts to 'best' on program launch. This will hopefully reduce the # of "According to your program there are no figs with such and such ability".
• Added army name and point value to Text and CSV reports (Thx Black Paladin)
• Added uprising figure images, icons for infantry and cavalry (Thx runab0ut!)

Battle Planner: Mech Warrior v3.07

• New: Filters are now always cleared on load. This will hopefully reduce the # of "I can't find such and such fig in my inventory or army and I just added it" type emails, and won't be a big inconvenience. If it is, complain and we'll make it an option to restore current, persistent filter behavior (we're still working on saving multiple filters per view, don't worry!
• New: Figure abilities and statistics (the button in the top rightish corner) now always reverts to 'best' on program launch. This will hopefully reduce the # of "According to your program there are no figs with such and such ability".
• Added army name and point value to Text and CSV reports (Thx Black Paladin)
• Added faction to FFE Elite JI 100 Recovery Vehicle (Thx Corlan)
• Fixed heat dial on Yulri Wolf (Thx to several)
• Fixed spelling for Kal Radick (Thx abyno_monk)
• Added more figure images (Thx runab0ut)
• Fixed faction for Collin Tolek (Thx Marc, talnlazarus, az_you_like_it, Brian, probably several more)
• Fixed points on skullcap garret and sariah nova cat, again (Thx talnzarus)

Battle Planner: HeroClix v3.07

• New: Filters are now always cleared on load. This will hopefully reduce the # of "I can't find such and such fig in my inventory or army and I just added it" type emails, and won't be a big inconvenience to the rest. If it is, complain and we'll make it an option to restore current, persistent filter behavior (we're still working on saving multiple filters per view, don't worry!
• New: Figure abilities and statistics (the button in the top rightish corner) now always reverts to 'best' on program launch. This will hopefully reduce the # of "According to your program there are no figs with such and such ability".
• Added army name and point value to Text and CSV reports (Thx Black Paladin)
• Fixed experienced daredevil points (Thx woodstock_15)
• Fixed experienced iceman points, all versions of viper, battle fury on experienced hulk (Thx Greg)
• Fixed arch enemies for 'virtual' versions of sinestro and sentinel to work (Thx GreatLordFarlander)
• Fixed another little arch enemy check error
• Fixed Veteran Blade (Thx Jonathan)
• Removed stealth from 3rd click of experienced Psylocke (Thx Roland and Tantalus)
• Fixed points on experienced Psylocke (Thx Greg)
• Fixed vampire lackeys, I think... (Thx Tantalus)

Battle Planner: MK v3.06

• Fixed rarity on one of the unpublished unlimited LEs (Thx Michael)
• Added uprising spoiler info (Thx MKRealms and Messenger)
• Added unlimited LEs (Thx MKRealms)
• Fixed hiding rank when selecting LE (Thx Morghrad)
• Fixed randomizer to not error when no figs in list (Thx Steven)

Battle Planner: MW v3.06

• Removed dead click on Scimitar MkII (Thx Aidan101)
• Fixed Lori Kyle faction (Thx corlanryloth)
• Fixed points on skullcap garret and sariah nova cat (Thx aidan and wparana)
• Added some of the Death From Above preview figs
• Fixed randomizer to not error when no figs in list (Thx Steven)

Battle Planner: HC v3.06

• Fixed arch enemy checks! (Even for Sinestro and Sentinel!)
• Added poison to g/e viper (Thx averykess)
• Fixed shadowcat experienced pts (Thx Ken, Chip, Ron)
• Fixed dominic petros first two clicks (Thx Greg)
• Fixed randomizer to not error when no figs in list (Thx Steven)

Oh yeah, one more thing, we've updated and uploaded all the screen savers! They're now faster then ever, and contain all figures currently available!

Big news: It's been a long 5 month search for a free download site, but it's finally happened! We are excited to announce that Battle Planner is now available for general download again outside of the BattlePlanner yahoo group! Thanks to the continued generosity of those RealmWorx dudes, we can now put Battle Planner right here for your download convenience! Click here to go to downloads!

And it just gets better, to make things even more convenient, RealmWorx has created a Battle Planner Support Forum on www.MKRealms.com

To celebrate, we're releasing Battle Planner 3.05!

Battle Planner: MK v3.05

• Fixed bug where when first click was selected for figure display, only first fig special ability legend items were drawn
• Implemented new button (in top right corner: stattype. This allows you to specify how you want to filter on and display statistics for figures in the list views.
  1. First: Just the first click will be used, so only first click #s and special abilities will be listed
  2. Best: The best #s on the dial, and all abilities on the dial will be used
  3. Best Close: The best #s on the dial, combined with unit and close combat special abilities will be used
  4. Best Ranged: The best #s on the dial, combined with unit and ranged combat special abilities will be used
• Removed old columns, add persistence to stat type

Battle Planner: MW v3.05

• Fixed last click on Dark Age Hauberks (Thx WQ)
• Fixed bug where when first click was selected for figure display, only first fig special ability legend items were drawn
• Implemented new button (in top right corner: stattype. This allows you to specify how you want to filter on and display statistics for figures in the list views.
  1. First: Just the first click will be used, so only first click #s and special abilities will be listed
  2. Best: The best #s on the dial, and all abilities on the dial will be used
  3. Best Close: The best #s on the dial, combined with unit and close combat special abilities will be used
  4. Best Ranged: The best #s on the dial, combined with unit and ranged combat special abilities will be used
• Removed old columns, add persistence to stat type

Battle Planner: HC v3.05

• Added missing figure images for XPlosion
• Fixed experienced iceman, experienced Daredevil (Thx Limite)
• Fixed bug where when first click was selected for figure display, only first fig special ability legend items were drawn
• Implemented new button (in top right corner: stattype. This allows you to specify how you want to filter on and display statistics for figures in the list views.
  1. First: Just the first click will be used, so only first click #s and special abilities will be listed
  2. Best: The best #s on the dial, and all abilities on the dial will be used
  3. Best Close: The best #s on the dial, combined with unit and close combat special abilities will be used
  4. Best Ranged: The best #s on the dial, combined with unit and ranged combat special abilities will be used
• Removed old columns, add persistence to stat type

Here's the latest and greatest:

Battle Planner: Mage Knight v3.04

• Updated Titan, restored apocalypse images (Thx runab0ut!)
• Changed program Icon, added shallow grave glyph (Thx runab0ut!)
• Changed display for regular to display hero details at level (dungeon planner still shows all levels of hero and levels so you can preview level ups)
• Added click data for uprising preview figs
• Improved error message when synch connection problems occur
• Fixed army notes to preserve carriage returns in notes field (Thx Brad)
• Doubled height of score card fields that have to be written in

Battle Planner: Mech Warrior v3.04

• Changed program Icon (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed targets for Janella Lakewood, primary range for Elite Firestarter, 3rd click for elite sniper, range on Abeda Meshado (Thx godfried!)
• Added a click of singleshot pulse to Lt. Diane Jameson (Thx von Kraus!)
• Improved error message when synch connection problems occur
• Fixed army notes to preserve carriage returns in notes field (Thx Brad)
• Doubled height of score card fields that have to be written in

Battle Planner: Hero Clix v3.04

• Fixed speed for hypersonic characters (Thx Lee and the many others who reported this!)
• Fixed name on savage hulk (Thx Greg)
• Improved error message when synch connection problems occur
• Fixed army notes to preserve carriage returns in notes field (Thx Brad)
• Doubled height of score card fields that have to be written in

Ok, we're back from GAMA, past the Mech Warrior National Qualifiers and even nearly caught up on sleep, so we're ready with some new releases.

Battle Planner: Mage Knight v3.02

• Added Doomblade Cyclops, several more unlimited LEs (Thx MKRealms!)
• Added place holders for Whelp Monk, the last two expansions this year (Dragon's Gate and Treachery)
• Fixed start menu short cut link for non-english Windows installs (Thx Starocotes)
• Fixed Maren'Kars Realms code (Thx Mike)
• Changed font color over green abilities to white for legibility (Thx Jason!)
• Added army names, figure factions to score cards
• Fixed bug when first starting up program where points remaining was incorrectly calculated (Thx Philip)

Battle Planner: Mech Warrior v3.02

• Added Artillery Tokens (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed artillery range for Veteran Thumper (Thx CavingJan)
• Artillery is now searchable as a special ability
• Changed font on green special abilities to white
• Added place holders for upcoming expansions
• Added army names, figure factions to score cards
• Fixed bug when first starting up program where points remaining was incorrectly calculated (Thx Philip)

Battle Planner: Hero Clix v3.02

• Fixed psylocke, experienced task master enhancement ability (Thx Greg, Lee)
• Changed font color over green abilities to white for legibility (Thx Jason!)
• Added army names, figure factions to score cards
• Fixed bug when first starting up program where points remaining was incorrectly calculated (Thx Philip)

Hurray! We're all done with the rename, plus of course the latest round of features. We choose a new directory for the program to go into, so for now you'll need to copy your data files from the old installation to the new installation. This shouldn't be too hard, just follow the folder copy directions below (the directions will also be in each programs 'about box' where you can always go for program history)

Also, we've added a second download option which will allow those of you who have had yahoo download problems to download the releases in smaller chunks, then join them together and install. See the 'smaller downloads' folder in each group folder for more instructions

Battle Planner: Mage Knight v3.00

• THE DEFAULT INSTALL DIRECTORY HAS CHANGED!
  
  All Battle Planner programs now install to a single directory (by default "c:\Program Files\Battle Planner"). To migrate your existing inventories, trades and armies to the new program:
  
  

  Copy this old directory	To this new Directory
  C:\Program Files\Mage Knight Army Builder\Armies	C:\Program Files\Battle Planner\Armies
  C:\Program Files\Mage Knight Army Builder\Inventories	C:\Program Files\Battle Planner\Inventories
  C:\Program Files\Mage Knight Army Builder\Trades	C:\Program Files\Battle Planner\Trades

  
  Adjust appropriately if you installed to different directories. (If you use more then one of our programs, please install them all to the same directory, this will prepare your installation for when we move to a single program that can manage all the various game types)
  
  
• Renamed to 'Battle Planner: Mage Knight', new splash screen, new install folder
• Added March LEs, fixed unlimited IDs for Crox and Sir Corinth
• Fixed refresh speed for figure statistics display: much, much faster now
• Fixed error where 'save' glyph wouldn't enable if you added figs to inventory/army via double clicking (Thx Philip)
• Added what little is known about Uprising

Battle Planner: Mech Warrior v3.00

• THE DEFAULT INSTALL DIRECTORY HAS CHANGED!
  
  All Battle Planner programs now install to a single directory (by default "c:\Program Files\Battle Planner"). To migrate your existing inventories, trades and armies to the new program:
  
  

  Copy this old directory	To this new Directory
  C:\Program Files\Mech Warrior Army Builder\Lances	C:\Program Files\Battle Planner\Lances
  C:\Program Files\Mech Warrior Army Builder\MWInventories	C:\Program Files\Battle Planner\MWInventories
  C:\Program Files\Mech Warrior Army Builder\MWTrades	C:\Program Files\Battle Planner\MWTrades

  
  Adjust appropriately if you installed to different directories. (If you use more then one of our programs, please install them all to the same directory, this will prepare your installation for when we move to a single program that can manage all the various game types)
  
  
• Renamed to 'Battle Planner: Mech Warrior', new splash screen, new install folder
• Fixed refresh speed for figure statistics display: much, much faster now
• Fixed attack glyph for Yulri Wolf and Fire for Effect Elite JI 100
• Fixed lockup on Win9x (Thx to everyone who reported this)
• Fixed melee glyph on stats screen, Giggins and Antonia unit names (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed error where 'save' glyph wouldn't enable if you added figs to inventory/army via double clicking (Thx Philip)

Battle Planner: Hero Clix v3.00

• THE DEFAULT INSTALL DIRECTORY HAS CHANGED!
  
  All Battle Planner programs now install to a single directory (by default "c:\Program Files\Battle Planner"). To migrate your existing inventories, trades and armies to the new program:
  
  

  Copy this old directory	To this new Directory
  C:\Program Files\Hero Clix Army Builder\Teams	C:\Program Files\Battle Planner\Teams
  C:\Program Files\Hero Clix Army Builder\HCInventories	C:\Program Files\Battle Planner\HCInventories
  C:\Program Files\Hero Clix Army Builder\HCTrades	C:\Program Files\Battle Planner\HCTrades

  
  Adjust appropriately if you installed to different directories. (If you use more then one of our programs, please install them all to the same directory, this will prepare your installation for when we move to a single program that can manage all the various game types)
  
  
• Renamed to 'Battle Planner: Hero Clix', new splash screen, new install folder
• Fixed error where 'save' glyph wouldn't enable if you added figs to inventory/army via double clicking (Thx Philip)
• Added remaining XPlosion figures (Thx HCRealms, Lee!)

It has been brought to our attention that our programs (formerly "Mage Knight Army Builder", "Heroclix Army Builder", and "MechWarrior Army Builder") infringe on the registered trademark "Battle Planner" held by Lone Wolf Development. We have removed the programs from availability and have disabled most of the content on this website until we resolve these issues.

As the issue involves only the name of our programs, and not the programs themselves, we will re-release them under a different name just as soon as we can come up with one. :) We appreciate your patience and support while we work to make the necessary changes to our program/website/etc.

It has also come to our attention that key portions of our Yahoo! group are not currently available. For now you can check this site for any news. We'll let you know how and where the new programs will be available.

Thanks for your patience while we sort this all out!

- Shawn and Todd

Ok, we're almost there for Fire for Effect, we just need to get the artillery tokens drawing and it'll be all set (plus hopefully we'll figure out why it's taking so long to draw the mechs in the figure statistics panel). We've also got what limited information is known on Xplosion ready in HCAB, enjoy that as well!

Mech Warrior Battle Planner V1.51

• Cleaned up all glyphs, really improves list view (great work Todd!)
• Added glyphs for first two expansions
• Fixed MW Realms Synch for Fire for Effect
• Added Saxon Transport Capacity
• Fixed base type for Tora's Zephyr (hover -> infantry hover)
• Fixed row header glyph for Lisabet Wolf to be regular targeting reticle (Thx Rakkar!)
• Added secondary rapidstrike to all AgroMech MkIIs, AgroMech MkIIs MODs and secondary brawling to Veteran Legionnaire (Thx Shawn G)
• Added new rank images, mercenary faction image (Thx runab0ut!)
• Added more artillery stats (Thx James Cook, runab0ut)
• Disabled updating the detailed figure display when it's hidden, improved performance (Thx Junk Email)
• Fixed Mash names for FFE, mercenary faction names (Thx Gordon)
• Added ability to create/edit army notes - it's the slide in panel that pop's in from the right, notes are printed in cribsheet (Thx to several users!)
• Added preview of random army generator (early alpha stage)
• Implemented fix to prevent bug when ".xml" files are created in inventory directory (Thx Jared)

HeroClix Battle Planner V1.61

• Cleaned up all glyphs, really improves list view (great work Todd!)
• Added glyphs for first three expansions
• Added X-Plosion figures place holders, limited spoiler (Thx Duncan & HCRealms!)
• Added 'arch enemy' ability (just indicates that the hero has/is an arch enemy)
• Added 'special' expansion, just contains Sinestro and Sentinel for now (since they didn't come out w/ any specific expansion)
• Added more Clobberin Time LEs (Thx HC Realms!)
• Removed arch enemies for LE Wolverine and Promo Batman (Thx Artimus, Running Wolf)
• Added ability to create/edit army notes - it's the slide in panel that pop's in from the right, notes are printed in cribsheet (Thx to several users!)
• Added preview of random army generator (early alpha stage)
• Implemented fix to prevent bug when ".xml" files are created in inventory directory (Thx Jared)

MW Battle Planner V1.50

• First serious implementation of FFE (mw realms synch, release glyphs, transport capacity and artillery tokens still need to be added)
• Added dials for all FFE units (Thx MW Realms!)
• Added play tips for all FFE units (Thx WizKids!)
• Added images for all FFE units, Skullcap Garret and Yulri Wolf (Thx runab0ut!)

Ok, we've got a few quick builds ready for you. We're working on a comprehensive fix for the arch enemy problem in Hero Clix (it isn't ready yet), and we're waiting like the rest of you for Fire for Effect, but we did find a decent looking 'FFE figure list' over at mwrealms, so we've got a teaser FFE release ready. As always, see below for further details, and enjoy!

MK Battle Planner v2.54

• Fixed dungeons sa text to reappear (Thx David)
• Added 'shallow grave' as a new special ability
• Fixed targets in figure list view to not display when range = 0 (Thx Stephen, others)
• Added Crox and Sir Corinth (Thx Drake!)
• Fixed bug where Unique LEs were still showing rank stars on figure stats panel (Thx M�RG)

MW Battle Planner V1.49

• Added preliminary support for artillery and transport capacity, still needs to be drawn in figure stats screen, but will be in hint over figure image for now
• Added 'known' Fire for Effect figure place holders - And don't panic, mercenary is the default faction I used until we know for sure (23 came from WizKids site, the rest from Chippi on MWRealms - Thx!)
• Added Mercenary glyph (Thx runab0ut!)
• Added playtips for Nikol Brahe
• Made first row of heat dial green (Thx Philip)
• Added repair tick for Elite Condor Tank (Thx SilkLow)
• Fixed bug where Unique LEs were still showing rank stars on figure stats panel (Thx M�RG)

HC Battle Planner V1.60

• Fixed virtual checkbox to appear in trades list (Thx Rob Sochia)
• Fixed Yellow Jacket to Yellowjacket (Thx Greg)
• Fixed points for veteran constrictor (Thx Etan)
• Added cool new splash screen / about image (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed targets in figure list view to not display when range = 0 (Thx Stephen, others)
• Fixed experience vampire lackey (Thx Etan)

Since hardly anyone ever actually bothers to read this, I'll start by mentioning that we've won again!. That's right, we won the recent Mage Knight Minions web site contest, so that brings the total WizKids contests won between Todd and I up to four. (Art over the River Khamita, Hirst Arts Single Tile, Hirst Arts Multi Tile, and now Minions fan web site)   Yeah! If I didn't know any better, I'd start to think that WizKids actually liked us. :)

And again, we must express our gratitude to Kevin "runab0ut" Navia for designing our current website. Thanks Kevin!!!! (We're splitting our booty with him of course)

Also, for those looking for a help file, Bob Johnson of Magic Suitcase fame has generously submitted a rather extensive help file. It was designed for Mage Knight Battle Planner, but would be useful for the Hero Clix and Mech Warrior programs as well. We plan on integrating this into the program soon (so you can hit F1 and get help from anywhere), but that's not done yet, so for now, you can just grab it from the yahoo groups. Thanks Bob!

MK Battle Planner v2.53

• Removed Special Ability text window and figure stats grid, replaced with fly over hints (very cool!)
• Reordered -/+ buttons on inventory panel to match order on army panel (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed filter group reordering to work consistently and remember what you set it to between executions
• Added 'select only this one' option to right click menu for the check list box filters, you can access this via double clicking already, but it's in the menu, well, cause it should be there too. :)
• Added preferences dialog which allows you to configure how the figure list is drawn (highlight by rank or faction, select font color, background color, etc.)
• Added ability to 'exclude' abilities from shown figures (ex. show figures w/out demoralized)
• Added new shortcut when installing, 'Mage Knight Dungeons' Battle Planner. This launches the program in a 'limited' dungeons mode. Here's the effects:
  • Factions are limited to dungeons, mage spawn and none (aka treasure chests)
  • Base types are limited to treasure chests and single dial non-cavalry non-titans
  • Special ability text is shown as the dungeons Special Ability text
  • Each program will save your preferences separately, but inventory can be common between both programs
  • You don't need to use it, and if you like to play dungeons with figs other then magespawn and heroes, you probably won't want to use it, but for 'tournament' play, it should be useful
  • Calculation for max damage now accounts for venom and sneak attack per dungeon SAs
  • Calculation for top speed now just adds 4 for charge/bound
  • Calculation for striking range has now been made accurate for dungeons and is measured in 'dungeon' tiles
• Added Maren'Kar (thx Todd)
• Added Iris, Mirage, Two Jaw and Rattleback
• Flipped conquest LEs back to 'blister pack/conquest' release, moved Raydan Marz and Black Thorn to dungeons expansion (thx Mike, runab0ut, many others)

MW Battle Planner V1.48

• Removed Special Equipment text window and figure stats grid, replaced with fly over hints (very cool!)
• Reordered -/+ buttons on inventory panel to match order on army panel (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed filter group reordering to work consistently and remember what you set it to between executions
• Added 'select only this one' option to right click menu for the check list box filters, you can access this via double clicking already, but it's in the menu, well, cause it should be there too. :)
• Added preferences dialog which allows you to configure how the figure list is drawn (highlight by rank or faction, select font color, background color, etc.)
• Added ability to 'exclude' abilities from shown figures (ex. show figures w/out ammo explosion)
• Added February LEs (Thx corlanryloth, Glenn, MWRealms)

HC Battle Planner V1.59

• Removed Special Ability text window and figure stats grid, replaced with fly over hints (very cool!)
• Reordered -/+ buttons on inventory panel to match order on army panel (Thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed filter group reordering to work consistently and remember what you set it to between executions
• Added 'select only this one' option to right click menu for the check list box filters, you can access this via double clicking already, but it's in the menu, well, cause it should be there too. :)
• Added preferences dialog which allows you to configure how the figure list is drawn (highlight by rank or faction, select font color, background color, etc.)
• Added ability to 'exclude' abilities from shown figures (ex. show figures w/out flight)
• Added rules to stats screen for Sinestro and Sentinel (Thx Jason Statham)
• Fixed a few errors on promotional spiderman (Thx Svaty Pejtl)
• Added flight to Blastaar (Thx Dex)
• Added barrier to George Tarleton (Thx Greg)
• Removed flight from rookie Dove (Thx Lance)

Ok, I've got some new builds ready. For all you who prefer the 'row highlighting' vs 'font highlighting', be warned that this hasn't been made an option yet, but it should be by the next build.

Also, in case you haven't been following the yahoo groups, Greg Williams has found a fix for those experiencing problems printing out crib sheets:

Thanks Greg!

HC Battle Planner V1.58

• Fixed application title (the text shown in the toolbar) to display the current version (Thx leptonica)
• Made special ability key optional for army cribsheets
• Added support for printing two armies to score card (For tournaments where you might have to play either side) (Thx Black Paladin)
• Added Fellowship Vote spot and a good definition of fellowship as stated by James Carrott, WizKids Organized Play Support Guru
• Added preliminary filter reordering ability (doesn't remember, kinda flaky, but it's a start)
• Made SHIELD capitalization more cOnsisTeNT (Thx leptonica)
• Restored missing text for num targets in figure list view
• Restored rank 'text' since star system doesn't apply to hero clix
• Fixed arch enemy detection and restored arch enemy names (instead of IDs) to list view
• Replaced arrows for targets with lightning bols
• Added Sinestro (Thx HCRealms!!!)
• Expanded base type to have two types: Super Hero and Super Super Hero. There are only two supersuperheroes currently, sinestro and sentinel
• Fixed sentinel to have flight
• Imported beautiful new glyphs from the ever awesome graphics guru Kevin "runab0ut" Navia

MK Battle Planner v2.52

• Fixed application title (the text shown in the toolbar) to display the current version (Thx leptonica)
• Made special ability key optional for army cribsheets
• Added support for printing two armies to score card (For tournaments where you might have to play either side) (Thx Black Paladin)
• Added Fellowship Vote spot and a good definition of fellowship as stated by James Carrott, WizKids Organized Play Support Guru
• Added preliminary filter reordering ability (doesn't remember, kinda flaky, but it's a start)
• Fixed points for standard and tough medicine troll (Thx Anthony!)

MW Battle Planner V1.47

• Fixed application title (the text shown in the toolbar) to display the current version (Thx leptonica)
• Made special ability key optional for army cribsheets
• Added support for printing two armies to score card (For tournaments where you might have to play either side) (Thx Black Paladin)
• Added Fellowship Vote spot and a good definition of fellowship as stated by James Carrott, WizKids Organized Play Support Guru
• Added preliminary filter reordering ability (doesn't remember, kinda flaky, but it's a start)
• Fixed about screen history box to not cover additional credits (Thx Andrew)
• Added dial for Dekker Nova Cat (Thx RainInVa)

Thanks to some quick, good feedback, I've got two minor updates ready

Mage Knight Battle Planner v2.51

• Added release images back into list view for release, number columns
• Fixed apocalypse/atlantis guild glyph (Thx runab0ut, Alain)
• Increased max SA legend size so that Ember could be displayed sans error - he's got 14 special abilities! (thx Tybalt)

Mech Warrior Battle Planner v1.46

• Fixed background images for single shot speed special abilities (Thx cavingjan)

Ok, here you go. These builds should be good, faster, and overall, better! MWAB is now looking great (Thanks runab0ut for submitting those slick SA glyphs!!!), and HCAB is better (no HC specific SA glyphs yet, but graphics are now more pervasive, aka battleplanner). Speaking of battleplanner, I finally figured out why Win98 was choking, and figured out a decent work around, so we're back to one build for battleplanner across Win95/Win98/WinME/WinNT/Win2000/WinXP. Yeah! Downloads are in the Yahoo Groups. Here's the breakdown:

Hero Clix Battle Planner v1.57

• Fixed bug when switching armies - didn't update all stats (Thx runab0ut, Bob, etc.)
• Modified army parsing (which updates armies to get their point totals, depleted status and illegal status which is used to display them in the Battle Planner) to only occur on initial load and when switching inventories (Thx Greg & runab0ut)
• Enhanced score card columns to be more useful for tournaments (Thx Jan)
• Improved army list to show depleted armies in italics (armies where you don't have all the figs to build them), and illegal armies in red
• Added links to generate crib sheet and score card to the main reports menu
• Moved scorecard and cribsheet buttons to available armies panel to better accomodate use of vertical stats display
• Fixed targets for Dr. Doom (Thx Lance)
• Added Clobberin Time LEs (Thx lilsean)
• Added flight for unique was (Thx Serandel)
• Switched row coloring to match battleplanner
• Added graphics to rank filter, faction filter
• Spiced up figure list view with glyphs
• Added event information to score card (Thx black paladin!)
• Fixed rank filter font color
• New feature: Select 'Synchronize inventory with hcrealms' from the 'Tools' menu to upload your inventory to hcrealms or download it from hcrealms

Mage Knight Battle Planner v2.50

• Added event information to score card (Thx black paladin!)
• Fixed rank filter font color
• Implemented a fix that allows the return to single executable so that Win9x users can enjoy battleplanner in all it's glory! (well, they'll get the Special Ability images at least)
• Added Pyramid Treasure Chests (Thx MKRealms!)
• Added images to base type filter

Mech Warrior Battle Planner v1.45

• Fixed bug when switching armies - didn't update all stats (Thx runab0ut, Bob, etc.)
• Modified army parsing (which updates armies to get their point totals, depleted status and illegal status which is used to display them in the Battle Planner) to only occur on initial load and when switching inventories (Thx Greg & runab0ut)
• Enhanced score card columns to be more useful for tournaments (Thx Jan)
• Improved army list to show depleted armies in italics (armies where you don't have all the figs to build them), and illegal armies in red
• Added links to generate crib sheet and score card to the main reports menu
• Moved scorecard and cribsheet buttons to available armies panel to better accomodate use of vertical stats display
• Modified speed column to be fastest printed speed, added 'move' column to be fastest possible speed (Thx Andrew)
• Fixed SA glyphs to be MW specific (Thx runab0ut!!!)
• Added graphics to abilities, base type, faction, rank filter (Thx runab0ut!!!)
• Spiced up figure list view with glyphs
• Added event information to score card (Thx black paladin!)
• Fixed rank filter font color
• New feature: Select 'Synchronize inventory with mwrealms' from the 'Tools' menu to upload your inventory to mwrealms or download it from mwrealms

Mage Knight Battle Planner v2.49 is now available in our yahoo groups. This is a quick build I'm putting out to fix some major bugs and to get some testing feedback on. I'm still working on the updates for HCAB and MWAB, plus getting the Pyramid LEs and Treasure Chests in, but for those with the speed/time to download, any feedback on this build would be great:

• Fixed major bug when switching / editing armies - stats weren't getting updated (Thx runab0ut, Bob, etc.)
• Modified army parsing (which updates armies to get their point totals, depleted status and illegal status which is used to display them in the Battle Planner) to only occur on initial load and when switching inventories, and display a progress bar. (Thx Greg & runab0ut)
• Enhanced score card columns to be more useful for tournaments (Thx Jan)
• Improved army list to show depleted armies in italics (armies where you don't have all the figs to build them), and illegal armies in red
• Added links to generate crib sheet and score card to the main reports menu
• Moved scorecard and cribsheet buttons to available armies panel to better accomodate use of vertical stats display
• Fixed pyramid heroes to have their 'elite warrior' ability set
• Fixed unlimited playtip for huntsman
• Fixed missing realmscodes for Bombardo, Duke Skala, Black Thorn, Raydan Marz, Apocalypse and Heroic Quest figures
• New feature: Select 'Synchronize inventory with mkrealms' from the 'Tools' menu to upload your inventory to mkrealms or download it from mkrealms

Hero Clix Battle Planner v1.56 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Fixed missing fig list to properly account for virtual figs
• Fixed legality rules to properly check for duplicate unique virtual figs
• Reformatted army panel
• Newly added fig now selected when adding figs to inventory from master or to army from inventory
• Fixed bug related to adding virtual figs to inventory via master list
• Fixed bug that forced you to click on an army twice to switch armies (Thx Greg)
• Modified layout of score card to make header info look better
• Restored row click labels
• Added points column to army list
• Fixed experienced human torch (Thx Puuka)
• Fixed experienced yellow jacket (Thx Patrick)
• Fixed changeling, eddie nashton (Thx Greg)
• Fixed experienced blob (Thx Leptonica)

Mage Knight Battle Planner v2.48 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Fixed missing fig list to properly account for virtual figs
• Fixed legality rules to properly check for duplicate unique virtual figs
• Reformatted army panel
• Newly added fig now selected when adding figs to inventory from master or to army from inventory
• Fixed bug related to adding virtual figs to inventory via master list
• Fixed bug that forced you to click on an army twice to switch armies (Thx Greg)
• Modified layout of score card to make header info look better
• Fixed drawing of treasure chests
• Restored row click labels
• Added points column to army list
• Added pyramid figures (no treasure chests yet). Thx MKRealms!
• Added pyramid images (Thx runab0ut!)

Mech Warrior Battle Planner V1.44 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Reformatted army panel
• Newly added fig now selected when adding figs to inventory from master or to army from inventory
• Fixed bug that forced you to click on an army twice to switch armies (Thx Greg)
• Modified layout of score card to make header info look better
• Restored row click labels
• Added points column to army list
• Lakehead -> Lakewood (Thx Jay & Seether)
• Added January LEs (Thx Jason and MWRealms)
• Fixed Bart Bradshaw (Thx Ryoken)
• Several more MW LEs images (Thx runab0ut!)

Shawn and Todd are taking a break for the holidays. Expect new builds sometime the first of January as battleplanner moves into its third year (yea!) In the meantime, get your copy of Stolen Destiny and order your Maren'kar so you don't have to drool over the stats later!

Have a great holiday season and, as always, happy gaming!

Shawn and Todd

A Win9x/me build of Mage Knight Battle Planner 2.47 is now available in our yahoo groups.

Hero Clix Battle Planner 1.55 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Armies now remember what their point filter was set too
• Army point filter behavior now more 'standard' (lots of little behaviour changes)
• Added tournament score cards
• Fixed Experienced Thor and Unique Flash (Thx Greg)
• Fixed invisible woman rarity (Thx Daniel)
• Fixed Carter Hall and Fred Myers (Thx Leptonica)
• BETA: New layout for filter panel, what do you think? Take the poll

Mech Warrior Battle Planner 1.43 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Finished Crib Sheets
• Added December Marquis Figs (Thx MWRealms!)
• Armies now remember what their point filter was set too
• Army point filter behavior now more 'standard' (lots of little behaviour changes)
• Added tournament score cards
• BETA: New layout for filter panel, what do you think? Take the poll

Mage Knight Battle Planner 2.47 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Updated dungeon rules to latest release
• Armies now remember what their point filter was set too
• Army point filter behavior now more 'standard' (lots of little behaviour changes)
• Added tournament score cards
• Fixed mount/cavalry status for Conquest LEs, Snagu
• Mounted Elf General
• Fixed img for apocalypse/atlantean filter (Thx Alaine)
• BETA: New layout for filter panel, what do you think? Take the poll

Hero Clix Battle Planner 1.54 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Fixed bad arch enemy links across expansions (removed sculpt links)
• Added new keyword searches so you can still type in logan or wolverine
• etc. and see all logan/wolverine sculpts
• Made Arthur Curry aquatic
• Thanos - no battle fury
• LE Knuckles - damage fix
• LE Joey The Snake - attack fix (thx Leptonica)
• Fixed flight for Dr. Doom veteran (thx Lance)

Mech Warrior Battle Planner 1.42 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Added 'safe heat' attribute: # of clicks of heat a mech can take with out having to make a die roll
• Fixed wild attribute values for 0 click (place holder) units
• fixed 'movement types'
• Added 'clicks to repair' attribute: # of clicks to first repair tick
• Added Dagger Di stats (thx MW Realms!)

I've got a few more fixes for HC stats in the hopper, I've got to add the December Marquis Mechs to Mechwarrior, and HCAB and MWAB need to be updated to include the army point filter remembering and tournament score cards, so if you've got a crummy internet connection, feel free to hold off a couple more days. I'm waiting for feedback on the new filter layout for battleplanner, if it's popular I'll update HCAB and MWAB with this feature as well as the other fixes.

A bug slipped out that caused problems if you used inventory/army names with non alpha numeric characters, this has been fixed, as well as converting all yellow text to gold text for readability, and finally a few more fig corrections for hero clix. Hit the downloads section for the latest builds.

Lots of new stuff, but there's two new features for all 3 builders that are, with all due humbleness, awesome:

1. Crib Sheets: A color coded study sheet for your army. It's not tournament legal, but it is a handy reference while your getting ready. I managed to put it together using no graphics, so it's just one big html file you can mail/copy around with out having to worry about graphics, etc. Click here to see a sample crib sheet for mage knight. (The crib sheets aren't quite right yet for mechwarrior, but that's coming).
2. Army point total filter: I resisted doing this for the longest time based on the theory that addition and subtraction shouldn't be that hard for your average war gamer. However, I became a battle master/warlord this year and after running games for a couple of months now, I realized that yes - it was needed. After adding it though I realized that to make it really cool, it should not only tell you how many points you have left, but give you the option to auto filter your inventory to the points you have left. This was a manual step I did a lot while doing armies, and now, tada - much easier. Just check 'Filter Inv' next to the army total and your points filter in your inventory will automatically update as you add figs to your army. Pretty cool.

Hero Clix Battle Planner 1.52 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Fixed cribsheets (Very Cool)
• Added army point limits and autofiltering
• Fixed Veteran Vampire Lackey's points (Thx mwda100)
• Fixed team for carter hall (Thx Lance Miller)
• Fixed range for Dr. Strange and added first click for Veteran Wolfsbane (Thx Greg Williams)
• Fixed Thor, Shield Trooper, and Skrull Commando and HawkEye (Thx mwda100)
• Fixed dark blue background (Thx Alan)
• Removed flight column (it's treated as an ability now) (thx again Alan)
• Made 'show virtual' default to true in inventory view
• Corrections for LE Yellow Jacket and Ant Man (thx Gaming Guy)

Mage Knight Battle Planner 2.45 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Finished crib sheet (very cool)
• Added army point limits and autofiltering
• Fixed file save to validate that army name is legit file name (thx Mike)
• Modified master.xml to use new 'variant' nodes for virtual figures
• Renamed Young Gilgarsh to Kitling Gilgarsh
• Fixed bug on castle walls, lite versions had 2 clicks instead of 3 clicks damage
• Fixed orange
• Fixed titan and explosive row headers to fit in with other row header (thx runab0ut!)
• Fixed Chromazars initial damage
• Modified inventory clear to set show virtual figs to true
• Fixed file save to validate that army name is legit file name (thx Mike)

Mech Warrior Battle Planner 1.4 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• More work on crib sheet (not done yet)
• Added army point limits and autofiltering
• Fixed file save to validate that army name is legit file name (thx Mike)
• Added stats for Janella Lakewood, correction for Gnome Battle Armor (thx MW Realms!)

Mech Warrior Screen Saver 1.0 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Updated with all known figures and images
• Modified so that it won't show figs w/ no click data yet (boring)

Hero Clix Battle Planner 1.51 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Made Sentinel a virtual fig (only one in inventory, other benefits aka battleplanner)
• Sorted team list, removed Hero Clix unaffiliated text (now just 'None')
• Added fly over help for team abilities
• Fixed images for Logan, Invisible Woman and Elektra (Thanks to Navia and Lee for pics, Lance R Miller, Navia & Cayman for pointing out these ommissions)
• Fixed Blastaars Damage (Thx Lee & Sam Charette)
• Fixed Veteran White Queens abilities (Thx Lee, Wormy & Frederic)
• Fixed missing image for Teen Titans (Thx Clint)
• Fixed points for LE Superman to 236 (Thx Scott)
• Fixed arch enemy display so arch enemy's name is always displayed in arch enemy column
• Fixed rank for Sentinel: Unique -> Experienced (Thx GreatLordFarlander)

Hero Clix Battle Planner 1.5 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Added hypertime LEs (thx Lee!!!)
• Added sculpt links for clobbering time
• Added fantastic four faction image
• Fixed faction mask for Teen Titans
• Added pics for clobberin time (thx runab0ut and Lee!)

Mech Warrior Battle Planner 1.3 is now available in our yahoo groups:

• Made a massive correction to repair clicks (need pointed out by Caving Jan, thanks!)
• Added melee heat glyph (thanks runab0ut!)
• Added more LE pics and lots of LE place holders (thanks Scott "Taz" Jefferson!)
• Added new column/filter: repair ticks (# of repair ticks unit has)

Well, I was right that it's a graphic, confused as all get out that it's a bitmap (you can't get more basic then that). So much for my JPG theory. For now, I just took out the troublesome block of bitmaps for a special Win9x build (battleplanner_95.exe). This new build is missing the glyphs for the special ability legend and the special ability combo box filter, but barring that, has everything that 2.44 does. This ought to work until I get a chance to figure out why Windows 95 doesn't like some bitmaps that Windows XP does.

However, I really hate debugging this, so I'm tabling this for now (since I've got a work around) and getting to funner stuff (some new repair dial features for MW, readding price support to MK, and images for HC). Well, funner for me anyway. :)

Good news for the 5% of users using Win9x - I think I've narrowed down the problem. It's weird, but it appears some of the new glyph graphics for battleplanner aren't compatible with Win9x. I'm not sure how this can possibly be, but when I cut out all of the glyph graphics I got it to run on Win9x. My best guess is that I just recently started using GIMP, and I saved some of the glyphs as JPGs and I toyed with the settings to best presentation over compression, and GIMP did something to the JPG which is okey dokey with Win2000/XP but not so cool with Win9x. Weird, and it's going to take a little more time to figure out which glyph is choking WinXP (since it's a reboot everytime I guess wrong).

In any case, on to the new stuff:

battleplanner 2.44: Imported Drakes 11/14/2002 database, moved pics subdirectory for custom images to 'MKPics' to prepare for picture pack release

MWAB 1.2: Added several new pics from runab0ut (LEs, singleshot decoy, new glyphs), added shut down row for heat dial. Added vents and tips to several LEs (thanks Scott "Taz" Jefferson!)

HCAB 1.5 Beta: Added clobberin Time Figs (thx again Lee!), No clobberin time pics yet, and sculpt info relationships aren't completed yet

Well, at this point, the best thing I can say about Win9x/ME and battleplanner 2.4x is 'beats me'. I've tried out all my initial ideas, and no luck. I even dug up an old machine and dealt with the beast directly (Win9x that is), and still couldn't figure out what's going on. My best guess is that we've hit another arbitrary limitation in the Win9x kernel (first we hit number of resources allowed in the resource file, then we hit GDI objects, now - who knows?) and since Win9x isn't capable of dealing with this gracefully, it chokes (even running in the debugger in Win98 I suffered from system freezes). If I could figure out what the wall is, I'd have a shot at getting around it, but for now, I'm kinda stuck.

So, on that note, we currently believe that 3.6% of our users are using Win98/WinME according to our current poll. While this isn't a huge amount, it's possible that not all of the Win9x users have taken the poll yet (we're assuming people who don't take the poll aren't worried about Win9x compatibility so they aren't bothering with the poll). If you're interested in Win9x support, make sure to take the poll as this will help us prioritize support for Win9x. And for now, feel free to download and reinstall battleplanner 2.4 beta 5, which appears to be Win9x compatible.

There's a compatiblity issue with battleplanner 2.4 and Win95/Win98/WinME (Win95, Win98 and WinME all use a crippled DOS code base)  Fortunately, there isn't an issue for WinNT4, Win2000 or WinXP users.

battleplanner 2.41 has a fix for what I think the issue might have been, so if you're having problems, try it out. It also fixes the 'weird' error you got when rolling the mouse of the 'explosive' sa

Update: No luck with 2.41 on 9x, however I just put out a "2.41 lite" that removes figure images, only try this if you're having problems with 2.41 though. And please let us know if it works/doesn't work so we can decide if we need to try something else.

Good news, final builds of all programs are now available.

Here's the goodies:

Mech Warrior 1.1: Corrected spelling error in Pulse SA text (thx Rob), Fixed mech speeds to be 'double' for filtering and listview, Added several more LEs (thanks MW Realms!!!)

Hero Clix Battle Planner 1.4: Inserted updated hrcl from Lee Robinson (corrections to flying plus some cleaned up play tips)

Mage Knight Battle Planner 2.4: Adjusted titans speed for filter to be 'double', Fixed presentation and stat calculation for multi-dials (now shows correct speed, best defense, etc. in figure list view), Added 'ranged defense', Added 'striking range' (another great idea introduced by Drake @ mkrules.net), Fixed popup menu item 'show figure statistics' to work (thx Luke!), Reduced foils to M003 to M030 (thx Luke!), Replaced SA glyphs with cleaned up ones from runab0ut (thx!)

Mech Warrior Screen Saver: This was a quick throw together, but it appears to be working

battleplanner 2.4 beta 5 is now available, Some nice new features:

• Finally remembered to give about screen credit to Drake at mkrules.net for his generosity in sharing his figure statistics db
• Modifed army screen to make army list the main item in the list view (so it resizes with form instead of the missing figure list), idea inspired by runab0ut, thanks!
• Modified stats screen to do dual faction draw hack until all dual faction icons are created. If you prefer the split faction icon, don't whine, just make one and send it to me, if it's up to snuff, I'll insert it. :)
• Added foil figures
• Added new special ability 'Elite Warrior'
• Imported Drakes 11/3/2002 Figure DB (got minion campaign LEs, more corrections)
• Added some more error handling traps hoping to catch problem with windows 98

It's about time, but I'm finally ready to call MechWarrior a 1.0 build. Yeah! Just in time for the November LE figs to be released so I can be out of date by the weekend. Oh well.

Here's the goodies:

Mech Warrior 1.0: Added LE Ryoken, Replaced circle backgrounds w/ new and improved from Kevin "runab0ut" Navia (Thanks!)

Hero Clix Battle Planner 1.4 Beta 4:Unique LEs in copper now (thx for the idea Mike), Grabbed good row header glyphs from HC Realms (Thanks again guys!), Added flight and aquatic as special abilities (need more info from you on who's aquatic)

Mage Knight Battle Planner 2.4 Beta 4:Fixed figure list view faction draw for shyft/solonavi, Now explosive is treated like a special ability (in SA filter) and explosive row header is used (Thanks MK Realms!), Titan row header now used (Thanks MK Realms!), Updated stats to use new circles from Kevin "runab0ut" Navia, Imported Drakes 10/31/2002 Figure Database, Added images for conquest mounted LEs (thanks Kevin)

New beta's are now ready in the MK Battle Planner yahoo group for the Hero Clix Battle Planner, Mage Knight Battle Planner and Mech Warrior Battle Planner.

I added a couple of special features to the hero clix and mage knight builds, but all programs got the following improvements:

• Modified filter list view so wouldn't snap around everytime you clicked on an out of focus filter
• Modified report filters to just remember army, master, inventory and trade, not a different filter for each individual army, inventory, etc.
• Modified name mask to support '+', '-', and rank. Also, space-space now clears it, so for all you keyboardist, the quickest way to do input is to turn off count, then just type in the rank & name or fig id for the fig you want and hit + or -, then space space to clear and do next fig!
• Added fix to all program variants to remember form positioning on close
• Cleaned up html and text reports to look reasonably nice, crib sheet still needs work

Beta's are now ready in the MK Battle Planner yahoo group for the Hero Clix Battle Planner, Mage Knight Battle Planner and Mech Warrior Battle Planner.

We've got DC LEs, Minions, Mercenaries, bug fixes, faster, better, more! Take your pick, and enjoy! All of these builds will move to final release status in a few more days unless you tell us otherwise

MWAB 1.0 beta 3 is now available in The MK Battle Planner yahoo group

Here's what's new:

• Moved heat dials in stats display
• Added one eyed jack (thanks mwrealms!)
• Fixed save of rank mask
• Fixed mech names / pilot names
• Fixed refresh of army/inventory when switching between different army/inventories after generating a report
• Imported num targets info for LEs
• Merged primary/secondary attributes for filter purposes

Pending your bug reports, there's only a couple of things left before we can call 1.0 done done:

• Fix refresh speed
• Fix combo images to match for mech warrior

Thanks for your patience, this has taken far longer then it should have. We just recently got involved in the tournament scene out here in Utah, and it's great fun, but it's slowed us down these past couple of months as it's continued to drain the time that we could otherwise have been programming.

MWAB 1.0 beta 2 is now available in The MK Battle Planner yahoo group

Here's what's new:

• Added SE, Sculpt, Pilot Name, heat dials for LEs (Thanks MW Realms!)
• Corrected several special equipments that should have been single shots
• Added 135 degree arc image
• Added row header glyph for infantry hover (hover move glyph)
• Fixed rank filter so unique LE would be remembered

There are three things left to do for beta 3 / release candidate:

• Move heat dials &/or add scroll bar
• Fix combo images to match for mech warrior
• Rename numeric filters in filter so that secondary filters are legible (or preferably eliminate 'secondary' filters and search mechs primary/secondary automagically)

Once we finish these up, we can get back to work on general enhancements (speed of refresh, better reports, all the other requests that have been pouring in, etc.)

And we're working on updating our site to prepare to link into mkrules.net new free links partner program. Kevin runab0ut Navia threw together this cool new banner for us:

MWAB 1.0 beta is now available in The MK Battle Planner yahoo group

Here's what's new:

• Added repair clicks
• Replaced Mage Knight background w/ Mech Warrior Background (Thanks runab0ut!)
• Added more LEs (no pics or SE stats yet - next beta)
• Added 'Infantry Hover' type
• Faction filter now drawn in technicolor (new SC/SW faction colors suggested by runab0ut)
• Conceded to popular demand and added new 'fake' rank (Unique LE)
• Still haven't moved heat dial rows, hopefully next beta

And please don't fret about the LEs too much, they still need work (special equipment, images, sculpt, naming, etc.)

MWAB 0.85 is now available in The MK Battle Planner yahoo group

I added some LE information, arcs and I redid the row coloring. It really surprised me that everyone liked it so much, I thought it was kinda garish (well, we did get one feedback that agreed). So, I'm trying a slightly toned down row coloring scheme. Please let us know if you like it or prefer the old one better.

Also, I'm nearing completion of MWAB 1.0. In my mind, MWAB just won't be complete until the repair dials are displayed. I'm probably just a couple of hours away from this, but I won't get a chance to work on the program again until this weekend at soonest, so I wanted to put the latest build out. So, please look forward to a final MWAB coming soon (probably early next week) w/ full stats on the LEs we know about, and repair clicks.

After MWAB 1.0 is released, I have some other reported bugs and speed issues to go and fix, then I've got some more cool ideas I can't wait to get too. I think you'll love them!!!

battleplanner and HCAB are now release ready!

Until we get a better solution in place, you will still need to go to groups.yahoo.com and join the battleplanner.com to grab the files. We understand this is a horribly inconvenient hassle, especially outside of the USA apparently, so we're working on a better solution. However, until we hear back from realms worx or I can get some time to setup a linux server and try my hand at hosting the files, you'll need to join the battleplanner group at groups.yahoo.com to get the latest release

Well, no complaints about placing the new betas in yahoo groups yet, so I'm going to continue w/ those until we have a permanent fix in place.

Another benefit of yahoo groups is you'll get auto emailed when we put new files up there. And even better, you can turn this feature off if you don't like it.

And speaking of new builds, I just finished placing three new betas up there, the HCAB (adds DC faction images) and battleplanner (much better hero display) ones are particularly nice, and MWAB is mainly just a clean up (pyro petersons points, etc.) All the builds also fix the horizontal to vertical transition problem, but unfortunately the speed of figure refresh is still slow on MWAB, and vertical help text isn't quite there yet (it's coming up next).

Bad news, I can't upload the new builds to our ftp host!

It looks like we may need to find a new host for our binary distributions. In the mean time, I've uploaded them to battleplanner yahoo group (go to groups.yahoo.com to join, the group name is 'battleplanner'). Not sure if we can share the files from there with out ponying up some money, but we shall see. For the short term, stay tuned to the battleplanner yahoo group for details. Once we get it resolved, I'll update this web page.

In fact, I've been meaning to use the battleplanner yahoo group for some time now, just haven't gotten around to it yet (one reason being that my boss will probably subscribe to it and harrass me ;p). So maybe it's a good thing that we can finally start using this tool. It looks like it has lots of features, and it appears that if you join the group you can grab the files.... Let me know if you have problems ([email protected])

Hey, this is going well, not a whole lot of bugs reported on these betas, so I did a little more and I'm basically done with grabbing all the low hanging fruit for MWAB, so I've only got tougher stuff to do from here. I've posted new betas of all the programs on the download page.

Here's a quick point by point:

• Mech Warrior Battle Planner: Added vent rating, added sculpts, several figure statistic corrections, D086 image, WAY COOL faction images provided by runabout, upgraded name filter to search sculpt names now too
• Hero Clix Battle Planner: More figure corrections from Tegan, promo 'sculpts' are set properly now, upgraded name filter to search sculpt names now too, Added Clobberin Time Expansion (no figs known yet)
• Mage Knight Battle Planner: Added the apocalypse images (thanks JC!) just in case you have one and didn't recognize it, Upgraded name filter to search sculpt names now too, Fixed Eremohn the Strong, he was posing as Whisper, and but we beat him back into submission, so we welcome Eremohn back and added the real Whisper (if you had Eremohn before, he'#39's back, and if you had Whisper, well... we're jealous)

Beware: As is typical w/ our Betas, these haven't been tested a whole lot yet, and in fact, if you find errors, we'd really appreciate it if you told us about them at [email protected]. Please back up your data before installing these, and most importantly, enjoy!

And now, since I still haven't won a Jonah what's his face Paladin yet, I need to get to work on building my lances and practicing.

Thanks for your patience and support!

So here I am, trying to build my army for this weeks mech warrior campaign, and the program is killing me! I've gotta have targets and range information displayed with the mech! So, I put together an army, got smacked in a practice run, and finally got around to (this is the part you'll care about) adding rarity, targets and min/max ranges to the display. I only had an hour to work on it tonight, but hopefully you'll find it worth while enough to download mwab 0.81.

Ok, I think I'm almost there. I've posted new betas of all the programs on the download page.

Here's a quick point by point:

• Hero Clix Battle Planner: Upgraded to latest code base, added LEs and DC figures (many thanks to Tegan!)
• Mage Knight Battle Planner: Upgraded to latest code base, fixed error in generating reports, error in always going to heal SA text, added conquest mounted figures (thanks Drake!)
• Mage Knight Screen Saver: Upgraded to latest code base, fixed occassional GPF
• Mech Warrior Battle Planner: Upgraded to latest code base, many minor fixes, this one still needs more work to reach '1.0' status

Beware: As is typical w/ our Betas, these haven't been tested a whole lot yet, and in fact, if you find errors, we'd really appreciate it if you told us about them at [email protected]. Please back up your data before installing these, and most importantly, enjoy!

Thanks for your patience and support!

Hi All,

Apparently, in my glee over winning the screen saver, I tripped over my own feet, and put out a buggy build of battleplanner and worse, a buggy updated screen saver. Yikes! I'm very sorry about that, but thanks to everyone reporting the bugs, I've found and fixed almost all of them. Unfortunately, I'm still working hard on the Mech Warrior Battle Planner (insert all the standard lame excuses for slowness), and the battleplanner/MWAB/HCAB code is intertwined to the point that it'll be easiest for me to finish MWAB before getting a fixed battleplanner prepared.

On the bright side, I do have an 'early' release of MWAB ready for all those anxious to start inventorying their figures. While this build should fix all the bugs people were finding in the latest battleplanner build, it isn't a fully functional MWAB program yet, primarily in that all of the statistics aren't being displayed quite right yet. However, for managing your inventory and for mech research, it ought to do for now. And, since it's still a work in progress, here's what's left to do on it:

• Replace mage knight images w/ mechwarrior images:
• Add image support for ballistic/energy/melee attacks
• Add image support for secondary damage, heat rows
• Add image support for factions in figure display
• Fix layout switch from horizontal to vertical (requires close program, relaunch to refresh properly now)
• Add repair arrows, arc, rarity, vent information
• Added display for min/max ranges
• Rename numeric filters in filter so that secondary filters are legible (or preferably eliminate 'secondary' filters and search mechs primary/secondary automagically)
• Add, fix sculpt information for uniques (should be mech name, not pilot name)
• Fix mounts to be more specific (e.g. 'infantry-foot', 'infantry-hover', 'vehicle-hover', etc.)
• Hide expansion filter for now (waste of space until we get next expansion)
• Clean up all figure images (std size, etc.), find image for D086

Two major news items:

Todd James won both the single and multi HADD2 dungeon tile design contest! Todd entered as 'Barbi0n', and created the dwarven mine multi tile and the ancient tomb single tile entries. Congrats to Todd! (We were waiting for wizkids to announce this, but since it's been two months now, we aren't going to hold our breath). (Shawn posting as Zartog collaborated w/ Rick Jones for his multi tile entry, and did his own single tile - which was destroyed in shipping!)

Shawn Ridenour won the Art over the River Khamita Screen Saver contest. But instead of downloading the screen saver off of their site, you'll probably want to grab the screen saver here, since it's been updated to include the latest figs.

And oh yeah, while working on MWAB I fixed a few things and have a 2.21 battleplanner release ready. Here's what's fixed:

• Added Iron Rain Hill Giant and Heroic Quest figures, plus several other minor figure corrections
• Fixed multi-dial buttons (broke this when developing screen saver)
• Created a 'Titan' mount type
• Added a heroic quests expansion
• Fixed click downs for light titan siege weaponry (was 2, is now 3)
• Removed the green damage 'start position' square, wizkids has for their new games, and it just seemed to make things more complicated, but let us know if you miss it.
• Fixed bug where army list could be resized to zero then wouldn't come back

We're back from Gencon (a 3000 mile round trip that's only gonna get longer next year) and we're ready to get serious on Mech Warrior Battle Planner now that we've played and got some figs.

We also got a lot of emails while we were gone, so we'll balance development w/ responding to emails, don't despair if we don't reply soon.

You can check out my GenCon report on MK Realms here. It's just a news update, but on the personal side, we met a lot of nice folk, including Jordan Weisman and Drake.

And more good news - we may have found someone to help us w/ keeping up on Hero Clix. We also have another volunteer to help w/ testing, and finally a third volunteer who's offered to help write the help systems. Yeah!

Finally, yes, there's some weird bug w/ the army selection panel not appearing on some machines, we can't duplicate this, but we are looking into it.

Mage Knight Battle Planner 2.2 is ready to go. There were no significant bugs reported from the last beta, so we just tidied up a few things, and now it's all done. Here's what 2.2 finished up with:

• Added images for titan figures
• Fixed text report generation (oops)
• Fixed auto col sizing for faction, release and rarity columns
• Modified column sorting so that only sorts on last 3 columns clicked (much, much faster now)
• A few more figure corrections
• Got multiple level support for dual faction heroes working

Enjoy! And we're now off to work on a Mech Warrior Battle Planner. Just to make sure that we get things right we'll do plenty of research at GenCon; maybe we'll see you there.

Also, just btw, we posted a new build of HCAB that includes all the fixes, enhancements, etc. we added to battleplanner 2.2. The long term plans for this are still really shakey since the licensing is really controlled by Marvel, not WizKids, so we're not actively building this up, but we'll keep you posted on updates

Finally, we've got Mage Knight Battle Planner 2.2 beta 2 ready! Yeah! It includes features that we know you want:

• Completed Horizontal drawing of figures
• Army points now show up to the left of the army list. Much more visible for those who have been having problems.
• Added Gilgarsh, other new conquest figs, clicks for sinister LEs
• Added explosive, min range figure properties
• Several various and sundry figure statistic corrections
• Fixed the replacement of figure images with jpegs in the \Pics directory.
• Removed play tips, "in the world" text and faction information at the request of Wizkids.
• Fixed army legality rules.

Well, you probably didn't want that last one, but if by doing it we stay in the clear with WizKids, it can't be all that bad a thing. We're planning on opening up to your suggestions for tips and strategies. Submit a good one and we'll list it with the fig and give credit to you! If you've already started building up your own tips and want to submit them to us for inclusion, go for it!

Now here's the rub: we haven't had a chance yet to find images for Gilgarsh and the new Siege equipment. If you know where we can get our hands on 'em, let us know

Caution: We changed the way we stored references to rebellion figures (for legacy reasons, we referred to them by 001, 002, etc, instead of R001). While we've tested this and we're pretty sure we got it all correct, please back up your inventory and armies before installing this beta just in case.

So what's next you ask? Well, if we don't get any error reports on beta 2, we'll let this go to full release status. We then are working on the following, though not necessarily in this order:

• Full release of the battleplanner Screen Saver
• Formation Support
• Mechwarrior Battle Planner
• New and improved reports
• Full picture pack support (we're going to move away from full and lite versions, and just release a light with a second download option for the full picture set. Sorry, but the restraints of having a 1000 plus figure pictures packaged into one executable that could run on the Win9x kernel just lead to really ugly code that requires serious repacking every time we add a new sculpt. The new system will be faster and more flexible)
• New universal shell from which you can access builder in Mage Knight, Conquest, Dungeons and MechWarrior modes
• Contacting Marvel Comics to get approval for continued release of Hero Clix Battle Planner

And of course, this year we'll be heading out to GenCon, so maybe we'll see you out there!

If you've been wondering where the next version of battleplanner is, you're not alone. We are back on track and plan to have version 2.2 out in the next week or so. v2.2 will complete the horizontal figure display, add the recent releases, and include our usual battery of bug fixes. Thanks for your patience.

Shawn has finished up work the new Beta version of battleplanner. This version includes a preview of our new Tutorial system (If you're confused by the new trade wizard, this may help you out.)

Here's the list of changes in the beta:

• Added our first tutorial! Yeah! It's on the trade page. If it doesn't pop up when you got there, then just click on the question mark button on the top left hand side
• Modified main screen so that list view was dominant size control, figure stat panel won't resize anymore until you tell it to
• Added right click menu option to figure lists to show figure panel, made double click on single list views to do the same thing
• Added docking panel to the bottom to prepare for low res mode, figure stats panel still needs to be rearranged
• Fixed save notification on inventory and trades so it won't confirm virtual fig differences on save
• Fixed some bugs related to battleplanner not remembering filter settings when the list had a space in it's name
• Fixed bug where want & trade buttons didn't update list view until cursor was moved

Todd and I finished up our single and multi tile entries for the Mage Knight Dungeons modeling contest, and I must say, Todd's kicking some serious can w/ his multi-tile entry. Todd's aliased as Barbari0n, and I'm in there as Zartog. And what's impressive is the fact that Todd did his multi-tile entry solo while I collaborated on my entry with our friend Rick. Anyway, check them out and keep your fingers crossed for Todd!

And don't worry, we've already started on battleplanner 2.2 and HCAB 1.2. Expect a beta by the end of this week with lower resolution support (a horizontal figure statistics panel), plus more bug fixes and whatever else we can squeeze in.

A minor update to both products is available in the download section. Here are the changes:

• Modified Inventory, Army and Trade managers to auto save new lists upon creation, should eliminate a lot of the confusion and problems
• Modified figure statistics panel so that it would stop mis-resizing the ability text panel
• Added basic support for large fonts to filter and figure views
• Made some minor cleanups to filter view
• Fixed the "resource terry pratchet "eric" not found" bug
• Fixed sorting bug that occured on number columns
• Added support for reverse sorting columns (just click the column a second time)

Hits on this site and downloads of the programs are way up since our move to MKRealms. Response has been very positive and we've gotten some comments that will guide our future development. Thanks and Welcome to all the new users.

Due to popular demand, we're finally going to knuckle down and write some help and tutorials. We're also strongly considering moving towards a traditional file system (File Menu / Open / Save) to help cut back on confusion regarding how to create new armies / inventories, etc.

As soon as we get a chance to breathe (after we finish our Hirst Arts models for the Dungeons contest this week end) we're going to post the results from the last survey, put up another quick survey, and get serious for the 2.2 build (low res support, easier file management, help, etc.). Hopefully by mid to end of next week we'll have a 2.2 beta available.

The Guys at MKREALMS have been kind enough to offer to host our web site.

We are happy to (finally) be off of Geocities, but we're even more thrilled to be part of the growing family of MKRealms web sites. We think that this is a great opportunity to spread the word of battleplanner to a much larger group of MK players.

We especially want to thank Draddog and Typhon at MKRealms who has been working for quite a while to get us set up.

Along with our move to MKRealms, we are sporting a new look. Thanks to kevin "runab0ut" navia for sending us the site design. We appreciate the effort that must have gone into this design.

Now that we have a new site design we may get around to updating the content. In between updates to the programs, of course.

HCAB 1.1 is the latest build of hero clix Battle Planner w/ all of the fixes we've added to the mage knight Battle Planner since hcab's last release. Here's the details:

• Fixed figure list view (rewrote it actually) to resolve refresh draw bugs
• Added a simple trade manager
• Added filters for all numeric figure attributes
• Made list view columns draggable
• Confirmed that we have fixed the crash on close issue
• Fixed play tip / flavor text resizing issues
• Fixed bug in concurrent army wizard related to not having enough of the same fig
• Fixed several draw issues related to resizing / reordering columns
• Added generic exception handler to help track down occasional errors on close
• Tweaked the figure display panel in preparation for lower resolution support (800x600, etc), New code actually reduces final executable size.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the count column to be empty in generated reports
• Fixed bug on launching concurrent army wizard, sped up concurrent army wizard

We've got a 2.1. available now. We think we've got all the bugs fixed. Here's the details of 2.1:

• Moved all the conquest figures (tanks, dragons, castle pieces) to the conquest expansion
• Fixed figure list view (rewrote it actually) to resolve bug introduced in v2.1b3. The whole thing is a lot faster now as an added bonus.
• Fixed image draws for sinister figures w/ LE versions, altem guardsman and woodland scout
• Fixed bug where header could slide if list view was reduced to 0 rows

We've got a 2.1 beta 3. available now. We think we've got all the bugs fixed. As soon as we here back from you that it's solid we'll start on 2.2, which we're hoping will include the trade wizard and lower resolution support. Here's the details of 2.1 beta 3:

• Added a simple trade manager
• Added filters for all numeric figure attributes
• Made list view columns draggable
• Confirmed that we have fixed the crash on close issue
• Fixed play tip / flavor text resizing issues
• Fixed bug in concurrent army wizard related to not having enough of the same fig
• Fixed several draw issues related to resizing / reordering columns
• Broke horizontal scrolling of figure lists (column headers don't scroll)/li>

We've got a 2.1 beta 2. available now. We think we've got all the bugs fixed. As soon as we here back from you that it's solid we'll start on 2.2, which we're hoping will include the trade wizard and lower resolution support. Here's the details of 2.1 beta 2:

• Fixed images in ability filter
• Added generic exception handler to help track down occasional errors on close
• Tweaked the figure display panel in preparation for lower resolution support (800x600, etc), New code actually reduces final executable size.
• Fixed a bug that was causing the count column to be empty in generated reports
• Added image for Radiant Light Dragon
• Implemented a possible fix for error on close, removed XP control support

We've got 2.1 beta. available now. We didn't add too many new features, but we did get the Radiant Light Dragon in, and we're still working on some performance tweaks. Here's the details:

• Moved extended figures from expansions back into their expansions (podo, etc.)
• Added filter for hero level
• Fixed bug where top level stats (speed, damage, etc) weren't recalculated for virtual figures
• Fixed bug on launching concurrent army wizard, sped up concurrent army wizard
• Added Radiant Light Dragon
• Added generic faction info
• Tinkered with memory footprint again, reduced required runtime memory by another 50%
• Added support for XP look & feel when running XP (looks very cool imho)

We've finally released Hero Clix Battle Planner 1.0. The download size is ~800k. It's not a complete work of art yet (we want to do more with the filters, and it still has the Mage Knight symbols for attack, etc.), but it's got all the figures, images, stats and abilities to make it worthwhile. And since we just got our Hirst Arts shipment in, it may be a few more days before we can get back to playing with the program :) After you have had a chance to play with it and submit bugs, we'll roll up all the changes and release 1.1.