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The Thrackdown Warband Builder has grown into the Battle Companion.
What started as a tool for building a roster and handling the post-battle sequence can now stay open throughout the game, helping you track what is happening on the table.
That means less bookkeeping during the battle, less trying to remember who has activated, and less information to enter again when the game is over.
Track the battle as it happens
Start a game from your warband and the Battle Companion opens a live card for every fighter in the roster.
From here you can keep track of:
- Remaining HP
- Whether each fighter has activated this round
- Bleeding, Burning, Poisoned and Entangled
- Used consumables
- Enemies Downed or Taken Out
- XP earned during the battle
Weapons are shown directly on each fighter card, with quick-reference stats and the full weapon rules available when you need them.
XP can also be recorded as the battle progresses, including Took Part, Downed Enemy, Out Cold, Mission and Standout rewards.
Fighter cards can be collapsed to show only the essentials when you do not need the full details. Marking a fighter as Activated also changes the card visually, and advancing the round clears the activation markers ready for the next one.
The Battle Companion keeps your changes as you play, so the state of the battle stays together from one round to the next.
Your faction rules, right there
The Battle Companion also brings your faction’s key rules into the game view.
Depending on the warband, that includes faction abilities, Momentum Surges and faction-specific mechanics such as Field Orders, Red Rites and the Mutation Table.
The rules you are most likely to need during a battle stay close at hand, without jumping between several documents.
From battle straight into post-battle
Finishing a tracked game feeds directly into the post-battle sequence. XP, used consumables and other information recorded during the battle carry forward automatically, so you do not have to enter everything again.
If you played without the live tracker, Record a Finished Game lets you enter the result afterwards and still use the Battle Companion for the campaign sequence, including the Underdog bonus where applicable.
The post-battle order has also changed. Warbands now collect Income before resolving Injuries and medical treatment, so there is a chance to earn some Thracks before finding out what keeping your fighters alive is going to cost.
Very considerate of the doctor.
Rules brought up to date
This update also brought the Battle Companion into line with the faction documents released alongside it.
That included revised wording for rules such as Untested, Designate Killzone, Frenzy Aura, Sermon of Firecall, the Impact Table and Flesh Flux Mutation Rolls.
A number of smaller weapon and rules fixes also went live:
- Slagstorm: critical hits now correctly use Knockback (1").
- Bleeding weapons: now use the correct Stabilise wording.
- Grapnel Hook: its missing Crit: prefix has been restored.
- Null Protocol: now displays the updated No More Masters faction rule.
At this point in the Open Alpha, the public Battle Companion contained the original 24 launch fighters across the six factions.
A cleaner experience on mobile and desktop
The interface also received a broader usability pass.
Checkboxes were replaced with larger custom controls, long fighter names now wrap correctly, stat rows adapt more cleanly to smaller screens, and several mobile overflow issues were fixed.
The Leader tag also changed from rust red to lichen green, keeping it visually distinct from fighters marked Eliminated.
Individually these are small changes, but together they make the Battle Companion much easier to use during a game.
Build the warband. Then take it to battle.
The Warband Builder is where you build and manage your warband.
It just does considerably more once the shooting starts.
Build your roster, start a battle, track your fighters as the game unfolds, then carry the results straight into the post-battle sequence without entering everything again.
Like the rest of Thrackdown’s rules and tools, the Battle Companion is free to use.
Now all you need is a plan.
Preferably one that survives contact with the enemy.