HOW TO BUILD A WARHAMMER 40,000 ARMY LIST

Enlist is where army lists live — yours, everyone else's, and the tournament lists that won recently. This guide covers getting a list in, checking whether you can actually field it, and sharing it.

The section has three boards: Manage (your lists), Discover (everyone's) and Compare (two of any of them, side by side).

How do I create an army list?

Worth saying plainly, because it is the thing people look for first: there is no from-scratch list builder here. You do not add units one at a time into an empty list. A list arrives one of two ways.

Import one. Hit Import List on Enlist › Manage, or go to Collect › Import and choose a list as the destination. Paste or upload a roster from whichever builder you already use and it becomes a list here.

Clone one. Find a list on Discover — including the tournament lists — and hit Clone. It lands on your own shelf with a fresh copy you can keep. Cloning your own list duplicates it, which is the usual way to make a variant.

This is a deliberate division of labour: other tools are good at the fiddly business of assembling a legal roster, and this app is good at telling you what you own, what it costs, what state it is in and how it compares. Bring the roster; get the answers.

Cloning and importing into a list both need a connection and an account.

How do I import a list from BattleScribe or New Recruit?

Open Collect › Import and either upload a file or paste the text.

Recognised formats:

Then choose New List as the destination. You will also be asked what to do with any unit in the roster you do not own — add it to your collection, add it to your wishlist, or ignore it — and you get a preview with any reconciliation warnings before it commits.

If a unit fails to reconcile, it is usually a name the importer could not match or a points value outside tolerance. The preview tells you which.

How do I import into a list I already have?

Same wizard, but pick Existing List and choose which one. You then get two modes:

Neither mode ever changes the list's name. That is the list's identity and what its share link is labelled with, so it stays yours to set.

Can I check whether I own everything in a list?

Yes — this is the part worth having the app for. Any list shows a readiness statement and badge answering "can I field this?" It checks the list against your actual collection and tells you:

A list's readiness: how many of its units you can field, how many are painted, and any notes about the list itself.
A list's readiness: how many of its units you can field, how many are painted, and any notes about the list itself.

What don't I own? breaks it down, and Add unowned to my wishlist puts the gaps straight onto your buy list. Match my build to this list queues exactly those models on your build queue, which is the fastest route from "I want to play this" to "here is tonight's job".

How do I clone someone else's list?

Open the list and hit Clone. It copies to your own shelf under a de-duplicated name, with fresh ids, and its constraint widened if needed to fit your collection. The original owner's details are stripped — it becomes your list.

Tournament lists on Discover clone the same way, which is the easiest way to start from something that is known to work.

How do I compare two lists?

Go to Enlist › Compare. With nothing chosen you get a two-column picker; each side can be one of your lists, anyone's published list, or a tournament list.

The comparison aligns both rosters section by section and gives you totals, a matchup read and the tournament record for those armies. Highlight differences narrows it to what actually differs. You can save the comparison as an image or share the link — it resolves for whoever you send it to.

How do I share or export a list?

Share copies a link (or opens the share sheet on mobile). Any list page is public to whoever has the link, so long as your profile is discoverable.

Export List offers:

How do I favourite a list?

Hit the star. Favourites pin to the top of both boards, including tournament lists. It is a private bookmark — nobody is told — and you can favourite your own lists. Needs a connection.

How do I attach a leader to a squad?

Open a unit in a list and use the Attachment control to attach a character to the squad it leads. The edge is stored on the list, so it travels with the list when it is shared or exported.

If you have already recorded that pairing in your collection, Follow Set Up takes it from there rather than making you say it twice. A unit holds one attachment at a time, so attaching to a new squad clears the old edge. Needs a connection.

How many lists can I have?

Three on a free account, six on the first paid tier, and unlimited above that. Collections have a separate points cap.

Frequently asked questions

Can I build a list from scratch in the app?

No. Lists arrive by import or by cloning an existing one. Import handles BattleScribe, New Recruit and several plain-text formats, so whichever builder you already use will come across.

Do I need an account to use lists?

Yes. Lists are stored on your account, so they are not available in local mode. Discover is readable by anyone, but keeping, cloning or importing a list needs signing in.

It checks it against its points cap and constraints and flags what it finds, alongside the ownership check. Treat it as a second pair of eyes rather than a tournament judge.

Can other people see my lists?

Only if your profile is discoverable — that is the switch in Settings. When it is on, your lists appear on Discover and share links work. Turn it off and they do not.

Why did some units fail to import?

Usually a name the importer could not match to a datasheet, or points outside its tolerance. The preview names them before anything is written, so you can fix the source and try again.