Games Workshop updates Warhammer 40,000 app with War Journal tools

Games Workshop finally pushed the Warhammer 40,000 app from a rules library into something you could actually lean on mid-game. The refreshed version, which went live on 17 June, let players track scores, pull up an opponent’s army list and rules on their own device, and handle the new War Journal workflow without juggling paper notes.

The biggest upgrade was the War Journal itself. It could generate missions from Force Dispositions, help choose terrain layouts and deployment maps, and keep victory points organized while the battle was in progress. That matters because it cut out the most annoying part of a 40k game: the admin pileup. Instead of flipping between a roster sheet, mission packet, and scraps of score tracking, the app pushed those tasks into one place.

On the list-building side, Battle Forge had been updated for the new detachments and Force Dispositions, along with the points changes from the Munitorum Field Manual. Games Workshop had already said the refreshed app would carry full unit points updates, Detachment Points and Force Dispositions, plus an interactive Munitorum Field Manual, and that points update landed about 48 hours after the earlier preview. For anyone building a list the night before an RTT, that was the part that actually saved time. It meant the app was not just showing rules, it was helping keep a list legal under the new framework.

The event side was just as important. Games Workshop tied the app into Best Coast Pairings so roster submission and scores could move through MyWarhammer, which made the jump from casual games to organized play a lot less clunky. Best Coast Pairings says its player app gives free access from registration through final scores when an organizer uses the platform, and its organizer app supports more than 15 game systems. Games Workshop and Best Coast Pairings had already linked MyWarhammer accounts in a November 2025 promotion, so this looked less like a one-off feature and more like a digital lane the company wanted players to stay in.

The update also widened the app’s reach by adding French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean sections for the first time. That did not mean every part of the app was fully translated, since only the core rules and Combat Patrols were available at launch, but it still lowered the barrier for new players trying to get through a first edition. Games Workshop’s 12 June Event Companions had already made Force Dispositions central to event play by requiring players to choose one from their army’s detachments when they submitted their list, locking that choice in and giving them a fixed set of five primary missions to learn. Put together, the new app did exactly what 11th edition wanted: less paper, less hunting, and fewer excuses to slow the game down.