Armada Fleet Builders (UPDATED)

It's 400 points exactly. Honest.

Building fleets without a builder app is HOPELESS.

Here are the THREE builders I know of (and 1 more I've never tried) that are actually maintained as of Armada 1.5

ARMADA WARLORDS 

Fleet building made easy

I maintain this builder. It's visual and easy to use, and also has some good database functions, list filtration, and the ability to look at other (public) lists. There is also a compact version of the build wo images that's perfect for mobile.

Pros:

- 100% free

- visual, easy to use

- excellent online saves

- good text export

- easy to share links to fleets

- ALWAYS up to date with new content

Cons:

- has a few quirks, like you can't swap ship models and it tends to reorder your ships when you edit/clone

- missing some code to enforce stuff like double-slot upgrades, so you have to keep track of that manually

- too many adds; fucking hate that!

Link: http://armadawarlords.hivelabs.solutions/

RYAN KINGSTON'S FLEET BUILDER

Fleet building v2.0

I love the Kingston builder. Compared to Warlords, for example, it's much more compact, without any loss of functionality.

Pros:

- very easy to use

- super-efficient and compact layout

- online saves

- quick to update

Cons:

- no filtering options for fleets, except by faction, so once you have more than 20 fleets that's a problem

- small donation required to save fleets

Link:http://armada.ryankingston.com/

ADROID FLEETS DESIGNER

Touching your fleet never felt this good...

Pros:

- easy to use Android app

- quick to update

- collection support, including tournament alt art and other loot

Cons:

- donation required to save fleets in cloud

- it's an Android app

Link: https://swm-dmb.blogspot.com/

FLAGSHIP

I don't know anything about this one. Never tried it.

Link: https://flagship.barronsoftware.com/

BATTLESCRIBE NO LONGER MAINTAINED

These are not the army lists you're looking for.

Battlescribe is an cross-platform (PC, Mac, iPhone, Android) builder app. It's made to handle ANY kind of listbuilding, not just Armada. So after installing you (very easy) import the Armada dataset and voila! I don't use it a whole lot, but I have it installed, and I can definitely reccoment

Pros:

- simple interface, easy to use

- very fast

- quick to update

- cross-platform

Cons:

- not very visual

Link: https://www.battlescribe.net/

FAB'S FLEET BUILDER NO LONGER MAINTAINED

Very visual and easy to use

This was the first builder I came into contact with, and I still use it a LOT. It is very visual and easy to use, perfect for both pros and beginners. 

You can swap ships without removing all the upgrades - depending on what upgrades you've loaded on a ship, the swap list will include only legal changes. Very handy feature.

Integrated collection support helps make sure you can actually build the fleets you design. There is even a function to tell you what expansions you need for any given build.

The only downside is that it has no online save function - to save a fleet you have to either save it as a file on your computer, or copy down the permalink/QR-code. Not insurmountable, but still meh.

Pros:

- visual, easy to use

- very good export support (text, FFG standard fleet form, and graphic representation)

- quick to update

- collection support

- random fleets generator (for fun and lolz)

Cons:

- no online save function

Link: http://armada.fabpsb.net/gindex.php