New Recruit News

Unit "eye" preview issue, Crusade performance
2025-09-17

Hello everyone,


The bug

A bug with unit preview was introduced in a recent update.

For Warhammer 40,000 the unit preview only shows rules and does not show profiles, weapons and stats.

For other games, the unit preview sometimes does not work altogether.


This issue is fixed in version 32.71! It is already out on web and Android. The fix has been deployed to iOS but Apple is taking longer to review and validate the new version, it should be out within the next 24 hours.


Crusade

Crusade was recently released for Warhammer 40k, this version of the game has a lot of units and this can cause performance issues on some devices. We are aware of the issue but the solution is not simple, it requires a lot of code optimization and this may take a while to solve.


Warhammer 40k: Stratagems information
2025-07-20

Stratagems have been updated for Chaos Knights and Space Wolves.


New Recruit uses Wahapedia as a primary source for Stratagems, it is great because it associates Stratagems and Units, meaning it makes it possible to filter the stratagem list when you open a unit and only show relevant stratagems for that unit. However, sometimes Wahapedia is slow to update, to address that, New Recruit now uses other sources for stratagems. The downside is that these do not make the Stratagem filter for units possible. For this reason, you will see the full list of Stratagems for your Detachment, for all units for Chaos Knights and Space Wolves. As soon as Wahapedia is updated, which may take weeks, New Recruit will update and the Stratagem filter for unit will work for these factions.


The same should happen for the next Codex releases, we will have a quick update with no filter, and then have the filter in the following weeks when Wahapedia is ready.

IOS App
2025-07-09

Hi everyone,

As some of you may have noticed, New Recruit now has an IOS app!

It is mostly identical to the web version but can be a bit more responsive and will use the full screen, and works better offline.

If you enjoy New Recruit and want to help it's growth, please bomb the App Store with 5 star reviews!

Thank you all for using New Recruit!

Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/new-recruit/id6742231365

Warhammer 40k: New Codexes Stratagems
2025-05-26

Hello,


New Recruit relies on Wahapedia to update Stratagems at the moment. This means I cannot update Stratagems until Wahapedia is updated. This may change in the future as Wahapedia is slow to update, but the codexes are quickly out of stock and I cannot get my hands on them at the moment.


There is a flurry of new codexes coming out at the moment so that does not make things easy.


I will do my best to update as soon as possible.

Slightly simplified the Leader feature
2025-05-12

The Leader feature has been slightly simplified.


Previously it would consider the list of possible attached unit in the Leader ability to limit the units that can be attached to a character. This caused many issues because there are too many exceptions, sometimes units are not named directly bur referenced in ambiguous ways (all Battleline Units of...), and some units have the Attached Unit ability which also adds possibilities.


For now, all units that have the Leader ability will be proposed as Leaders for all non Character units. This make sure you will not be prevented from attaching a unit, the downside is that it allows you to make illegal attachments, but it is a good compromise to ensure good functionality for now. If somehow we can build a solid database of all allowed attachment combos, the limited list of available Leaders may come back in the future.

Warhammer 40k: Unit Leaders
2025-05-10

Hi everyone,


Following up on the new Stratagems feature, it is now possible to attach leaders to unit. You can do that from the "Edit Unit" panel, or on the profile view in Play mode.


  • It is possible to assign multiple leaders to the same unit, while rules generally prevent it, it would be too complex to only allow it when possible, so it is better to leave the freedom of doing it, it is up to you to know the rules.
  • A single character cannot be assigned to more than one unit
  • It is only possible to assign characters to units that can actually be led by that character according to the rules.
  • When attaching a character, the unit will be moved underneath the character in Play Mode to represent a grouped unit.
  • Stratagems of the character will be added to the list of stratagems of the unit while it is attached


Like Stratagems, this feature requires a sub.

Warhammer 40k: Stratagems
2025-04-17

New Recruit now has a new supporters only feature for Warhammer 40k: Unit Stratagems


Open any unit, in build mode or play mode, and you can view all the Stratagems that can affect it.


This is the first building block of a Game Assistant feature for Warhammer 40k. The Game Assistant is a work in progress feature for New Recruit supporters. It will help you during games, track objectives, count points, view available stratagems and possibly more as I am gathering ideas.


There is no ETA yet on when this will be available but we're working hard to deliver it as soon as possible!


A BIG thank you to all New Recruit supporters!

New Android App
2025-03-02

Hello everyone,


A new version of the Android Playstore App has been released. This new version works differently. While still web based, it no longer relies on the default web browser installed on your Android, but instead relies on Android's Webview component. It should be more reliable because it does not depend on the browser you selected as default. It should be more reliable in the future and already solves a few minor issues like screen rotation. However the update comes with a few issues:


  • If you were using New Recruit without an account, since this new version is basically a new App, your local data may be lost. You may retrieve it by going to https://www.newrecruit.eu/app on your default Android web browser, your data should be there. You can the create an account from here, and log in using the same account in the app.
  • Since it is a new App, everyone was basically logged out, and a lot of people did not remember their password, this caused a lot of people to use the LOST PASSWORD feature, and our email provider blocked us as too many emails were sent within a short amount of time and we were using a free plan for emails. We switched to a paid plans and Lost Password emails should now be sent properly.
  • We realised a bit late that some functions were broken, typically functions that export or print stuff. This will mostly affect PDF and Pretty exports. We are working on the issue and hope to fix this as soon as possible, proably within a few days.


Thanks everyone for your patience, this caused a few people to send 1 star reviews on Google Play, please if you like New Recruit go to Google Play and give us a good review, this helps a lot!

Latest improvements in New Recruit
2025-01-15

Hello everyone, here is a quick recap of some new stuff that got added to New Recruit recently.


  • New export for lists: Templates. This is a versatile system that let's you export really nice cards for 40k, AOS, and profile tables for all games. It is customizable so you can create your own pretty export formats if you know a bit of HTML.


  • New text export for The Old World. The new text export is simplified and looks a lot like the T9A export. It was just adapted to TOW to handle motley crew units that can span over more than 1 line.


  • New Scoring System for tournaments. There is a button to activate it in the scoring tab of the tournament admin interface. It allows the creation of versatile scoring systems with any number of point types and tie breakers. Contact me on Discord if you have question about it, I may make a tutorial because it's not that intuitive to use, but feel free to make test tournaments if you want to try it.


  • The Ninth Age has been updated to version 3.0. Finally, I got to finish up the new rarity and shooting systems, and fixed most bugs. New Recruit should now be usable again for T9A, sorry it took so long but there was a lot of work involved. I will be fixing bugs reported on Discord or with the in game report tool.

Server improvements
2025-01-01

Happy new year everyone,


You may have noticed that New Recruit has been slow lately, sometimes it would be stuck loading for 5-10 seconds, occasionally even more.


But no longer! We optimized the server and things are running a lot more smoothly now, you should notice significant improvement!