GETTING STARTED

There is a lot in here, and almost none of it announces itself. This guide walks the things worth doing first — one short section each, in the order the Getting Started checklist lists them. Open that checklist from the chat button in the bottom-right corner: it ticks each one off as you go and keeps a running XP total, which is the number on the Learn page's top bar.

Nothing here is compulsory. Skip what doesn't apply to you, or hit Ignore All at the foot of the list and it will stop asking. You can bring it back any time.

Set up

Three small things that make the app yours before you put anything in it.

Add a Profile Photo

Edit your profile and upload a photo of your own — a model you are proud of works better than a face.

It is the one thing that makes your name in the feed, on a comment or on the leaderboard read as a person rather than a row. If you signed in with Google the app does not borrow that picture: this is a deliberate choice, and it stays yours.

Set Your Location

In Settings › Preferences, set your country and then your city. The country picker draws a flag; the city field is a typeahead over the largest few hundred places in whichever country you picked.

It does two things today. Your profile gains a location line, so other collectors can see roughly where you play, and you join the country and city groups in the Latest feed's Groups tab automatically. It is also the seed for finding players near you later on.

Your collection

Everything else in the app is downstream of knowing what is in your cupboard.

Add a Faction

Use Add Faction on the Armies page, or the Add New Faction row in the top bar's faction selector. Pick your army, then walk through its units answering I own, I want, or I don't own.

Everything else in the app hangs off this. Points totals, the build pipeline, the paint queue, wishlist costs and every "your collection" statistic need to know what is actually in your cupboard. You do not have to finish the walk — one unit is enough to get going, and you can add more later.

Name a Unit

Open a unit and give it a name on the Info tab — the veterans, the one with the converted banner, the squad you keep losing.

A nickname wins over the datasheet name everywhere the app shows that unit, so your collection starts reading like your collection rather than a catalogue.

Set a Build Stage

Open any unit you own and use the Info tab to move it along: unbuilt, built, primed, battle-ready, painted. You can set the whole squad at once or go model by model on the Paint tab.

Build stages are the spine of the app. They drive the pipeline charts, the Backlog and To Prime boards, the points-weighted progress on your profile — and, importantly, they feed your streak: moving a model forward marks the day, with no extra clicking.

Wishlist a Unit

On any unit you do not own, hit Want. On the Buy page you can then sort what you want, hide what you have gone off, and see a running estimated cost.

A wishlist is more useful than a shopping list because the app knows the prices and the points. It will tell you what a purchase does to your army's total before you make it, and the Next Up queue can put a purchase at the top of your plan.

Set a Loadout

Open a unit and use the Build tab. Each wargear cluster gets a choice; leave one blank and it stays to be decided. If you have magnetised the kit, say so on the Info tab instead.

Deciding this before the glue comes out is the entire point. It also means your lists can be checked against what you actually built — the wargear check on a list will tell you when a list asks for a weapon your model doesn't have.

Attach a Leader

On a unit's Set Up tab, attach a character to the squad they lead.

The app models the attachment the way the game does, so points, abilities and your lists all know which bodyguard the character is riding with. It is also the fastest way to remember a decision you made months ago at the painting table.

Add a Unit to Next Up

On Collect › Build, drag a model into the Next Up queue — or add one from the unit's own page. The queue takes build and paint work alike.

This is the answer to "what should I do tonight". The top of the queue shows up on your streak panel, so the decision is already made before you sit down. Order it by dragging; the app never reorders it behind you.

Nickname a Model

On a unit's Paint tab, give one model its own name — the sergeant, the champion, the one whose arm you glued on backwards.

A squad name says whose squad it is; a model name says which one you mean. Named models keep their identity across photos, the build queue and the paint tracker, which matters exactly when two identical minis are at different stages.

Magnetise a Kit

On a unit's Info tab, set the kit to Magnetised.

Magnets are the hobby's honest answer to "which loadout?" — all of them. The app stops asking you to commit wargear picks for that unit and prices your lists knowing the kit can be whatever the list needs.

Ask the Caddie About a Unit

Open any unit and hit Ask — the chat opens already knowing which unit you mean, what stage it is at, and what is in your collection.

The Caddie is the app's assistant, and the unit chip is the fastest way in: how to run it, what to paint first, which squad it should lead. The conversation is saved per unit, so next month's question picks up where this one left off.

Painting

The part that is actually the hobby. All of it is optional, and all of it is more fun with a record.

Mark a Model In Progress

On a unit's Paint tab, flag the model currently on your desk.

Two things happen. Your streak panel knows what you are working on, and — if you have followers — the model appears in their feed as a work in progress. Finished photos go to everyone; half-painted ones only go to the people who chose to follow you, which is what makes that lane worth watching.

Upload a Photo

On any unit's Paint tab, add a photo to a model — or to the unit as a whole. There is a slot per painting stage, so you can keep the primed shot next to the finished one.

Photos are what make the collection yours rather than a spreadsheet of box art. They also flow into the Latest feed, where a work-in-progress shot goes to the people who follow you, and a finished one goes to everyone.

Set a Cover Photo

Open a photo from a unit's Paint tab and choose Make Cover Photo.

That picture then represents the unit everywhere the app needs one image — the collection boards, your lists, your profile. Without it the app picks the best it can; with it, you decide.

Add a Paint

On Collect › Paint, use the My Paints shelf to record what you actually own. The catalogue covers 5,869 paints across sixteen brands, and every one has its own page with its colour values and its nearest equivalents in other ranges.

Knowing what is on your desk is what lets the app suggest a scheme you can actually paint, and stops you buying a third almost-identical grey.

Apply a Paint Scheme

Still on Collect › Paint, build a scheme: name it, pick its colours, and slot in the real paints. Then assign it to the models it belongs to.

A scheme is a recipe you will need again in six months when you add two more squads and cannot remember which metallic you used. Assign it to models and the app can show you your collection organised by scheme rather than by unit.

Finish a Unit

Get every model in one unit to painted.

This is the one worth chasing. A single finished unit changes how the whole collection reads — the pipeline charts, the points-weighted progress on your profile, and the feeling of having actually completed something rather than started nine things.

Take a WIP Photo

On a model you have marked In Progress, add a photo to its work-in-progress rail on the Paint tab.

Half-painted models are most of the good content in the feed — finished photos come from everyone, but works-in-progress are what the people who follow you actually came to see. A WIP shot also gives future-you the before picture.

Photograph 5 Models

Keep going — photos of five different models, any stage.

One photo is a test; five is a gallery. Your profile's photo tab starts reading like a body of work, your units carry their own portraits everywhere they appear, and each shot is a candidate for the feed and the Models leaderboard.

Finish 3 Units

Get every model in three different units to painted.

One finished unit is a milestone; three is a painted army starting to exist. This is roughly where the pipeline charts flip from aspiration to record — and where a battle-ready force on the table stops being hypothetical.

Lists

An army list here is checked against what you own, shared by link, and comparable with anyone else's.

Create a List

Go to Enlist, then Manage, and make a list — or paste an army list from anywhere and let the import wizard read it. It understands the common export formats and reconciles them against your collection.

Lists are shareable by link, can be cloned by other people, and get checked against what you own: the app will tell you which units in the list you have, which you have not built yet, and which you would need to buy.

Every list has a share button. It hands over a link that anyone can open, whether or not they use the app.

Good for a pre-game heads-up, a second opinion, or a tournament submission. The link shows the list; it does not give anyone access to your account or the rest of your collection.

Favourite a Community List

Browse Enlist › Discover and hit the star on a list you want to keep. Tournament lists from the current meta are in there alongside other collectors'.

Favourites pin to the top of your own boards, so a list you are working towards is one tap away rather than a search. Starring your own list is allowed — it is a private bookmark, not a public vote.

Clone a List

Found a list on Enlist › Discover you want to build from? Clone it and it becomes yours to edit.

The copy is widened to fit your own collection rather than the original owner's, so nothing is locked to what they happened to own. The list you cloned keeps a count of how many players have done it, which is its own kind of compliment.

Compare a List

From Enlist › Compare, pick two lists and put them side by side.

The comparison lines up matching units, prices both sides, and writes out where the difference actually is — not just points, but what each army can do that the other cannot. It is the fastest way to work out what a change to your own list really costs you.

Export Your Collection

Collect › Export writes your collection or a single list out as text, a BattleScribe file, or an image poster.

Your data is yours. Take it to another app, print it, post it, or just keep a backup — nothing here is a trap, and knowing that is worth the two minutes it takes to try.

Crown a Warlord

In a list's edit view, crown one character as the warlord.

The game requires one, so the list checker treats an uncrowned list as unfinished. Picking early also settles which enhancement matters and who your opponent is coming for.

Build a Second List

Make another list — same army at a different points size, a different detachment, or the all-painted version.

One list is your army; two is the start of actually playing with the tool. The Compare page reads any two side by side, which is where list-building stops being data entry and starts being decisions.

Community

The app is more useful with other people in it, and none of this is compulsory.

Follow 3 People

Open Latest › Discover, or tap any collector's name anywhere in the app, and hit Follow.

Following is what turns the Latest feed from a firehose into something worth opening. Finished photos come from everyone, but works-in-progress only come from the people you follow — so an empty follow list means you never see anyone's half-painted models, which is most of the good stuff. Three is roughly where the feed starts feeling alive.

Like a Photo

Tap the heart on any photo in the Latest feed, on a collector's profile, or on a unit's page.

Likes are the app's only ranking signal for photos. The Leaderboard's Models board and the feed's Hot ordering both read them, so a like is a small vote for work you think deserves to be seen. Yours are private to everyone but the person who painted the model, who gets a notification.

Make a Comment

Every photo, list and update carries a comment box at the foot of it. Write something and hit post.

This is where the hobby advice actually lives — which brush, which thinner, how they got that edge. Mention someone with `@` and they will get a notification. Comments can be edited and deleted, so a typo is not forever.

Vote on the Roadmap

The Roadmap section of the Feedback page lists what is planned. Upvote what you want built.

Votes are read directly, and they genuinely move things up the order. If something you need is not there, the report form below it is the right place to say so.

Submit Feedback

Use the Feedback page — bug, idea, or data problem. If it is a wrong points value or a missing unit, the data-issue form routes it to the right place.

Every report is read. The data ones in particular are usually fixed within a day, because the game data rebuilds itself hourly and a bad row is one correction away from being right for everyone.

Your invite link lives on the Friends page, on your own profile, and under your name in the top bar — copy it, or let someone scan the QR code.

It is a normal link to your profile that remembers it was yours: anyone who joins from it follows you and you follow them, automatically. Send it to the club group chat rather than describing the app badly.

Email a Friend an Invite

On the Friends page, enter a friend's email and the app sends them a join link directly.

The most deliberate way to bring someone in — and the invite says who it is from, so it does not read as spam. When they sign up you follow each other automatically, and an invite that lands pays the highest referral XP there is.

This one ticks itself: the first time anyone signs up from a link or page you shared, it is done.

Every person you bring in also pays referral XP on top of this — each one who sticks around counts, not just the first. Your profile shows the lineage both ways: who referred you, and who you have referred.

Your Invite Lands

The first sign-up from a deliberate invite — your emailed invite, or your scanned QR code — and a week of them actually using the app.

Deliberate invites are worth the most because they are the ones that stick: a friend you asked personally is a friend you will still be trading likes with in a year. Each one pays the top referral rate on top of this row.

Join a Feed Group

On the Latest feed's Groups tab, join a group — your country, your city, your language, or any other that fits.

Groups are the feed at a human scale. The global feed shows you everyone; your city's group shows you the people you might actually play. Membership is private, and leaving is one tap.

Streaks

One number that is about the habit rather than the collection.

Hit a 3 Day Streak

Do something three days running. Moving any model forward a build stage counts automatically; if you did hobby work the app cannot see, tap the day on the streak panel yourself.

The streak is the one number in the app that is about the habit rather than the collection. Three days is where it starts to be a thing you would rather not break — which is the entire mechanism.

Hit a 7 Day Streak

Seven days running, the same way.

There is a two-day grace built in, so a missed evening does not wipe the board, and you can check in for any of the last five days if you forgot at the time. Streaks show on the leaderboard, so at seven days you are on it.

Hit a 14 Day Streak

Two weeks running — the same rules, the same grace.

Seven days is a good week; fourteen is a habit. By now the streak panel's queue is deciding your evenings for you, and every streak day is paying XP on top of this row.

Hit a 30 Day Streak

A month of hobby days.

A thirty-day streak is the difference between owning a backlog and clearing one — a month of single evenings moves more models than most people manage in a year of weekends. The streak milestones past this post to the feed, so your month gets its moment.