I am currently in the process of making an Army builder using Microsoft Excel. I decided to start off small by just having a one model builder, where you can choose the weapons and wargear for space marines. I have nearly finished work on it. Most of the information is there and when i put it all in i need to fix up some of the formulas(soo many formulas) and it SHOULD be good to go.

Features of the character creator include:

A message that comes up when you exceed the 100 points limit for wargear and weapons.
A statistics box that changes to suit the kind of wargear your character has eg: when "Artificer Armour" is selected it changes the Sv stat from 3+ to 2+.Any other ideas that i could include in this would be much appreciated

Josh

Cool idea man, it'll be a lot of work though.

Yes indeed it will be alot of work but my mum has extensive knowledge of the workings of excel so she has helped me with formulas and stuff. Before long i will learn of the formulas she knows and will construct Army builders like the spreading of wild fire hahahahaha *shit im still typing* ......

Looking forward to seeing it, sounds like great stuff.

Tekore

I did something like that for Battletech mech design rules a few years ago. Looked butt-ugly, was bloody awkward to use (I only knew a few most basic formulae at the time) but actually worked.

Recently tried to produce a Chaos army builder, but... it kind of failed. I've seen a very neat and clean interactive character sheet done for Fallout, so those things are doable. (unfortunately, it is password-protected, so I can't see what makes it tick and reverse-engineer it)