Dropzone Commander 3E Army Builder
Assemble and print your army in this unofficial army builder for Dropzone Commander, published by TTCombat. This web app was designed by WarLore.
What it does
- Six factions, every unit, third edition, plus the Behemoths.
- Enforces the rules while you build rather than grading you after: points, category spend, Group composition, transport capacity, Commander levels — down to Shaltari Gates and unarmed Subterranean Units costing no Group, and a Transport Behemoth's cargo costing one of its own.
- Squads nest under the Transport carrying them, because that is how a Group works.
- Print sheets, play mode, share by link or plain text, backup and restore, works offline, no account.
- Rules quoted from TTCombat's own PDFs. Six audit scripts run on every ingest, two of which open the PDFs and check that every word printed on a card reached the data.
Design decisions
- Dresses as its own rulebook: warm paper, navy rail, gold Deco, Fluent 2 underneath. Tighter than the Dropfleet builder it forked from.
- One responsive app, not two builds. Dropfleet ships a separate
/mobile/; this is the correction.
- Mobile first, because the phone is the one used at a table.
- Every panel is square. Buttons may have a radius; a card may not.
Still to do
- The Squad card is too tall. A 4-Variant unit draws four weapon blocks, three of which you usually do not own. Collapsing untaken Variants means hiding gameplay text, so it needs a deliberate call.
- Big Squads need a size control that carries ranges like 3–9 and 6–12.
- Whether an Aux Gate may be taken with a Squad aboard. Its rule says it uses a Gate's rules "except they are taken as non-Gate Squads", and a Gate is "not taken with any Units aboard" — which of those wins is a reading, not a bug. The app currently allows it.
- A Transport Behemoth's cargo is counted as its own Group but still drawn inside the Behemoth's, because
carriedBy is what draws the nesting tree.
Run it
python -m http.server 8899
Tests, and the data pipeline that rebuilds everything from the PDFs:
node scripts/test-all.mjs # 1680 assertions
python tools/dzc/rebuild.py # PDFs -> data/dzc/, then six audits
Legal
Game data, rules text, unit names and art are TTCombat's. Unofficial, not endorsed by TTCombat.
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