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The Fifth Horseman
January 2nd, 2008, 17:17
This is something I cooked up a few days ago basing on a set of character design rules for Space Marines posted by someone called "BrotherAntonius" at Bolter & Chainsword a few years ago.

Basically, this small thing allows you to create a custom statline for a Space Marine character and calculates its points cost for you.

A few things to note:
* The wargear - excluding the standard Power Armour with its 3+ save - is not included and the utility doesn't offer any wargear options so you'll have to add them in by yourself. I might try to add the wargear options if there's a sufficient number of requests for them

* The design rules and point values were calculated for the 3rd Edition Codex, so the calculated points cost may be a little off when compared to the modern one. Same as for wargear, I can update that if there's a sufficient number of requests for me to do so.

* There are some restrictions to how far you can take the stats. If you exceed them, the field will turn red and the points cost will be replaced with "ERROR".

* You can decrease stats below the default, but you don't get any points back for doing so.

Boomer
January 2nd, 2008, 17:31
Thanks, thats very clever indeed.
Rep to you !!

The Fifth Horseman
January 2nd, 2008, 21:12
Updated the spreadsheet - there were a couple minor bugs in some of the formulae.

I'll see if I can figure out how to do the forms in Excel,.

Ferrel
January 7th, 2008, 17:46
Very cool idea!

One concern I have though is that going from 4 to 5 toughness is only 5 points! I know I'd always spend that if I could.