Review: Age of Sigmar App

The Age of Sigmar App is a free app by GW for use in the construction and reference of your armies for playing Age of Sigmar. It's absolutely worth it's value and more and I see it as an essential component for anyone playing AoS.

So what does it do? It offers War Scrolls for every single unit that has been released (as well as all the old ones they retrofitted with War Scrolls), broken into the four Grand Alliances (and Scenery) as well as being further broken down by Faction. You simply choose the Faction you want, click on the cloud to download the War Scrolls and they are there for you to review.

Each War Scroll is broken into 4 or more pages. The first offers the description and composition, the second a picture, the third has the stat wheel and weapon options, and the final page (or two or more if a lot of rules apply) offer the special abilities and Keywords for that unit. They are the same as the .pdf or hard copy War Scrolls just broken into easily digestable pages for your tablet or phone.

What's more, you can click the gold crossed weapons on any War Scroll to place it into a My Battle page, that will only display those War Scrolls on your menu. This means you can build an army and have each War Scroll on the same page, especially useful if you're mixing factions or don't have all unit types for a large army.

The app also features the free ruleset so you can reference it quickly and, if you prefer your book e-style, you can purcase them through the app to link them all together. This includes all the Battletomes, Realmgate Wars Big Books, and Painting Guides (as well as a link to Black Library for fiction).

Purchasing the books through the app also unlock their relevant Battalion War Scrolls to allow you to add them to your My Battle or read through them. If you don't want to purchase them (I prefer hard copies for instance), you can unlock the Battalion Scrolls for .99 cents a piece, no worse than any other in-app purchases.

My only complaint is that you can't uninstall any War Scrolls you've downloaded easily. If you have downloaded the Khorne Bloodreavers when they were part of the Starter Set, for instance, and then wanted to look at them after they have had updates with their individual release (for their new weapons and such), you can't delete the original War Scroll to get the new one through the app. You can go into your phone's app setting and delete all downloaded data or clear data or what have you to redownload the new Scrolls, but that's needlessly complicated. I wish there was a long press option or something to redownload new Scrolls quickly.

But other than that, this app is essential at the table to make planning quick and easy, you don't have to shuffle through papers or books to find the War Scrolls you need. And it's free, there's no reason not to get this app.