What's new

New features and fixes in New Recruit, month by month.

September 2026

Warhammer 40,000

  • Deployment Planner (11th edition): place your army on the official deployment maps with base-to-base line of sight, two tiers of blocking terrain and live visibility shading while you drag. Ctrl+drag box-selects models across units.
  • Every 11th edition datasheet now has a base size, used by the Deployment Planner.
  • Guided list creation: faction, game mode, battle size, detachment, force disposition and name, step by step, with a preview of the mission matchups and of the detachment rules.
  • Lists exported as text from the official GW app can be pasted back in.
  • Game reports have a free-text comment field, shown below the report.
  • The 10th edition stratagems export template uses the NR phase icons.

The 9th Age

  • Game assistant rebuilt: a Battle Setup step (roll-off, Season 2 secondaries, Spell Swapping), player turns, a Magic Phase that generates its own dice with the Miscast table, one Flux deck draw per turn, deployment reminders and limited-use items ticked directly from the Turn page.
  • Text import and export round-trip cleanly: options match regardless of their order, enchant and rune groups are handled, and an option the dataset forbids is explained with the dataset's own wording.

Army builder

  • Create-list dialog: name first, touch-friendly faction cards, and the last configuration pick creates the list.
  • The auto-hidden left panel keeps its state across a page refresh.
  • Importing a shared list no longer brings the sharer's folder, and a copy no longer carries the original's folder and play state.
  • Unit search has a clear button.
  • Fixed the model count missing on led units, and a selection now follows the category changes of every ancestor entry (fixes 2-leader Kroot Carnivores and similar).

Game assistant

  • Connected games: each seat keeps its own perspective, missing saves were recovered and room sync is more reliable.

Interface

  • The language picker shows every language in its own name.
  • A status line under the loading spinner says what the app is waiting for.

Reliability & performance

  • Fixed a blank page on some browsers where the layout collapsed to zero height.
  • Cached files from older builds are evicted, so an update no longer mixes old and new code.

August 2026

Import & export

  • New text import dialog with a live preview of what could and could not be read. It reads lists from the GW app, WTC/tournament exports, community formats and hand-written lists, in every language NR supports, and restores leader attachments.
  • Text import works for every game system, not only 40k.
  • Paste a share link, a list id or a roster file straight into the import box.
  • Export dialog redesigned: split view with live preview on desktop, compact sheet on mobile, per-block copy buttons for Discord, the format remembered per system, and a share sheet on mobile.
  • Pretty export shows stratagems on cards; click a profile to cross it out and drop it from print.
  • Fixed: Warscroll export, glued model lines in the Tournament format, card export hanging, crusade force names, 40k leader attachments and constant wargear lines.

Army builder

  • Leaders attach through the catalogue's own associations; attached units can stay in their own category, and the combined leader view is available in play mode.
  • Swipe gestures on unit rows: duplicate, delete, and unlink an attached leader.
  • My Lists groups 11th edition lists by Force Disposition.
  • Create list: tappable force rows, a floating create button on mobile, and a preview eye on each force.
  • NR asks before opening a pinned list with a newer cached book instead of switching silently.
  • Fixed: attached leaders shown twice in build mode, custom view crash in play mode, the min/max buttons crashing on a rejected change, the sticky roster header on mobile, dark mode inline rename boxes and the notes cursor jumping.

Warhammer 40,000

  • Missions: a dropdown on the Force Disposition entry, every primary and secondary mission card refreshed against the live cards, rule preambles and keywords highlighted, mutually exclusive scoring bands marked.
  • The fixed-secondary picker previews the mission cards.
  • Game assistant: own phase icons, a phase selector and one-tap access to the list.
  • Primary scoring capped at 15 VP per round and 45 VP per game; stratagems are shared both ways between an attached leader and its unit.

Tournaments

  • ELO pairings algorithm for the first round.
  • CEIL and FLOOR operations in automatic score calculation.
  • Visibility and the online flag can be edited after results exist.
  • A wrong team password on signup now shows a proper message.
  • Tighter privacy on tournament and list visibility.

Game assistant

  • The wound counter can be turned into a model counter.
  • Bigger wound +/- touch targets on mobile.
  • Fixed: blank page or stuck loading on a direct game URL, a seasonless 40k game freezing the assistant, the dots menu floating over popups, and the mission scoring checkboxes on wide phones.

Mobile & offline

  • The app starts from its local cache right away and syncs with the server behind; edits made offline are sent on reconnect.
  • An expired session is announced and your edits stay local instead of failing silently.
  • Offline install no longer aborts on a single failed file, and persistent storage is requested so the browser does not evict your data.

Reliability & performance

  • Faster startup: smaller bundle, lazy-loaded features, webp images, parallel data downloads.
  • The builder no longer rescans the whole roster on every edit.
  • Navigation hardened against third-party scripts; dead navigation buttons and a stuck offline badge on flaky connections fixed.
  • Safari below 16.4 works again.

Wiki

  • Exact-match crusade filter and a fix for pages that rendered twice.

July 2026

Interface

  • New logo, app icons and splash screens, with a dark-mode variant.
  • The whole icon set redrawn as vector icons that follow your theme and stay crisp on any screen.
  • Desktop sub-unit stepper and options menu redesigned; identical sub-unit stacks can be combined in one action.
  • Country flags render everywhere, including Chrome on Windows.
  • Padding and safe areas reworked for the installed app; your theme only applies inside the app, not on the public pages.

The 9th Age

  • New 9th Age dataset: category indicators, per-model profiles, exclusive-selection profiles, spells, icons, and text export/import in the legacy format.
  • Game assistant on its own pages, first pass of the 3.0 rules.

Army builder

  • Add-force dialog grouped by faction.
  • Quick-install links: /app/install/<system> installs a game system in one step.
  • 11th edition: any character can be a leader candidate.
  • Fixed sub-unit split and delete propagation, and several auto-check regressions.

Warhammer 40,000

  • Stratagems: 11th edition template enabled, faction stratagems with the same name in different detachments kept apart, dark mode backgrounds fixed.
  • Export includes the force disposition; the battlefield divider follows the real deployment split.

Tournaments

  • Team tournaments show the number of teams and players.
  • Flags before country names in dropdowns.

Wiki

  • Home page translated in 14 languages; wiki pages have their own titles, render markdown and open directly in the builder.

Mobile & offline

  • Android: older phones supported again (Android 6+), splash fills the screen on Android 12+.

June 2026

Warhammer 40,000

  • 11th edition game assistant: mission data, faction icons, per-player primary mission, multiple detachments, secondaries regrouped on one page.
  • "Copy to 11th" buttons on 10th edition lists, with a stratagem filter.

Game assistant

  • Connected games: both players' assistants stay in sync during a game, for 40k and The 9th Age.
  • Player setup reacts immediately to changes.

Army builder

  • Leaders generalised to every game system that declares them.
  • Association candidates show the distinguishing wargear in bold, with compact rows on mobile.
  • Force options are included in exports; forces are hidden in play mode.
  • Fixed costs background not following the theme, and rule ids with accents.

Import & export

  • A classic fantasy print template, contributed by the community.
  • Profile tables fixed in the crusade export.

Mobile & offline

  • Lists and games move to a faster, sturdier local database on mobile; the old one is deleted to free storage.

May 2026

Game assistant

  • Wound counter shown on models, and reflected in the model export.
  • Random challenger card.
  • Maximum points field on missions.

Army builder

  • An infinite constraint loop is detected and cut short instead of freezing the list (Age of Sigmar).
  • Exports find the points cost by type, so points work in translated catalogues.
  • New catalogues added to a GitHub system are always kept.

The 9th Age

  • Weapons auto-selected when adding an entry; constant options no longer exported; rarity fixed.

Mobile & offline

  • Supporter features work offline.
  • Android uses the native directory picker.

Interface

  • Bug report form includes the details needed for stratagem reports; sizes account for the safe area.

April 2026

Army builder

  • Leaders: a setting to allow leaders in 40k 10th edition, a dead leader no longer affects its unit, associations kept with presets, clearer association errors.
  • Reset Wounds option in the List Options menu and in the game assistant.
  • Nested entries get a slight background; very large groups auto-collapse again; the parent entry name is gone from rows to save space.
  • Rule comparison shows the source entry name when it differs.
  • Autocorrect disabled on notes.

Tournaments

  • Option to show only the captain's email address.
  • Team list validation fixed; the list icon is hidden for extras.
  • Season loading order fixed.

Import & export

  • A warning when an export has no unit because a force is not exportable.
  • Pretty points match more loosely, so it works for Horus Heresy.

Interface

  • Menu resize fixed; children showing on mobile fixed; borders in My Systems fixed; game assistant menu respects the safe area.
  • Install link on the add-GitHub-system screen.

Reliability & performance

  • Security fixes.

March 2026

Army builder

  • Favourites become presets, with a default preset.
  • Leader improvements and fixes; custom constraint errors attached to the right unit.
  • Keyword links fixed; a memory leak fixed; smoother reactivity.

Warhammer 40,000

  • Stratagem matching is more generic, falling back to the detachment's stratagems.
  • Scored missions are auto-discarded in the game assistant.

The 9th Age

  • Spell numbers added when missing; rune combinations fixed.