Armada Fleets Designer

New version released! This time we have spoilers from the upcoming SSD set (thanks to the video by Crabbok) and some improvements. Moreover, I'm moving the apps to a new domain, so I recommend that you update your app. From now on you will find the web version of the app at https://www.dmborque.eu/swm Enjoy!

This is a step-by-step guide on how to do a turn in the campaign module. Once you have created your campaign, loaded at least your fleet, stablished the starting bases and outposts and declared the assaults of the first turn... Play your game. During the battle, press the butons of each ship and squadron to mark them as veterans or scarred. In the Assaults tab, write down the results of each combat , including the resources gained from the special assaults. DO NOT MODIFY anything in the Systems tab yet! Go back to the Fleets tab. If a ship or squadron has been completely *destroyed*, or if you are going to *scrap* a ship, squadron or upgrade, do it now: Press the credits button. You will be redirected to the fleet edition screen. DELETE the destroyed elements, or those you want to scrap. DO NOT BUY any upgrade, ship or squadron. SAVE the fleet in the usual way and come back to this campaign screen. Some of the values for the spent resources may be incorrect. In that

Let's take a closer look at the options avilable in the Configuration screen (accessed from the main screen with the [gear] button). First one is the language selection , which is pretty obvious. Just remember to restart the app after modifying this value so all the pages are rewritten in the new language. Next you have a button to edit your Labels . Then some options on how to visualize and print your fleets, available upgrades... Take a closer look at the Collection Control option. A change in this option will modify visualization when creating a fleet. Normally, all ships and upgrades are shown in black or white if they are available, or in blue if they are still unreleased. If you activate this option some of the ships and/or upgrades will be shown in red . This color means that you don't have enough miniatures or cards in your collection to deploy this fleet in a tournament. You can manage the content of your collection in the Collection tab.

You can generate a QR code with your fleet from 2 places: - from the Fleet Data screen (were you write the fleet's name...) - from the Saved Fleets list In both screens you will find the QR code generation button. Tap it and you will get a QR code that you can save as an image file (.png), share with other app (Twitter, Facebook...) or directly show to other device to be scanned.

Once in the Collection screen you can see all the published and announced expansions. With the + and - buttons of each expansion you can manage the number of expansions you own. Now, maybe you exchanged an upgrade card, or lost a pilot card....In this case you can manage individual items. In order to do this you have to enter the expansion where the item comes, go through the items list and use the + and - buttons to add/remove items. The number of items of the expansion will not be modified, but it will be marked in red. You can check all the individually modified items in the Modified Items button from the main Collection screen. The number associated with each element is the number of elements you have, in addition to the ones that come with the expansions. For example: a +2 associated to "External Racks" means that you have bought/traded 2 more copies of this card; or a -1 associated to "Parting Blows" means that you have lost/traded one of th

The Collection screen not only shows the items you own. You can use it to check what comes in each expansion. But if you want to know which expansion brings that card that you need, you better go to the Library and search for the card you are looking for. Each card comes with the list of expansions it comes in. You can even tap on the expansion name to go to its own screen and check what else comes with that expansion!

First of all, remember that there is an online version of the app, available at https://www.dmborque.eu/swm But you may want to run the Android version on a Windows PC (for example, if you want to use the app offline). Well, this is something quite easy to do. First you need a program that runs on windows and emulates an Android device. I have tested BlueStacks ( http://www.bluestacks.com ) and it works really well, but there are other programs too. - Go to its site and download the executable. - Install BlueStacks on your PC. - Now, you will be able to open any .apk file with BluStacks. This will install the Android application on your virtual Android device. - You can start it. It will be very similar to running an Android device for the first time. Now, download the Armada Fleets Designer apk (from the link in the Featured Post of this blog, for example) and install it on the BlueStacks "device" (double clicking on the file you just downloaded should do it).

If you don't know what's an apk file of are having difficulties installing this app  (after downloading the apk file from the link in the Featured Post of this blog, for example), you may want to check these links: https://www.androidpit.com/android-for-beginners-what-is-an-apk-file https://www.wikihow.tech/Install-APK-Files-on-Android Depending on you Android version the steps may be different, but it is quite easy. If you don't find the screen to allow install of apps from unknown sources, try goind to Settings and use the search box to look for "unknown sources".