Bad Things Happen vs War Council
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bad Things Happen
Manage your Malifaux game experience with this app. Track your models, assemble Crews, generate Encounters, and monitor in-game statuses. Access stat cards for all Factions to easily explore your options.
- Model collection tracking
- Crew building
- Encounter generation
- In-game status tracking
- Faction stat cards
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Bad Things Happen is the perfect app for Malifaux players. It allows you to track your model collection, build Crews, generate Encounters, and track in-game statuses. It includes the stat cards for every Faction, allowing you to quickly and easily peruse your options.
War Council
This app helps players of a popular tabletop miniatures game manage their unit collections and build armies. It allows for easy army assembly, strategy visualization, and sharing of army lists with friends. It serves as a digital reference for all available game units.
- Track unit collection
- Build armies and point costs
- Manage Tactics cards and NCUs
- Visualize strategies
- Share armies with friends
- Unit reference guide
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The official Song of Ice & Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game companion app! Take your War Council with you wherever you go, to track your collection and build your armies in your smartphone / tablet! Easily assemble new armies and visualize the viability of new strategies for this amazing wargame set in Westeros. Features: - Tracks your collection of units with ease. - Build your armies and track their point costs, deck of Tactics cards, NCUs and Units. - Share your armies with friends! - Easy reference for every unit available for the game. Attention: This app is meant to be used as a companion for the Song of Ice & Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game. Requires physical copies of the game for full enjoyment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: War Council at 4.4 against Bad Things Happen's 3.5. War Council also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (114 vs 22). Bad Things Happen's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Bad Things Happen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. War Council asks for nothing beyond the download.
War Council holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: War Council has 114 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Bad Things Happen's written reviews are positive against 43% of War Council's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bad Things Happen ships an update every 11 days, War Council every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Bad Things Happen | War Council |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (22 ratings) | 4.4 (114 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 43.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 114 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 200 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wyrd Games | CMON |
Customer experience
Bad Things Happen
War Council
Bugs and requests
Bad Things Happen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
War Council
Reported bugs
10 issues- Documents will not download
- Commander units not appearing
- Attachments not appearing
- App crashes when printing
- Create button greyed out after update
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- Commander cards show unit abilities instead of commander abilities
- Dragon mechanics missing for Targaryens
- Formatting issues on Pixel2 phone
- Cannot add commander to army list
- Cannot define area for attachments
Requested features
9 requests- Add direct feedback button
- Implement swipe gestures for navigation
- Add Windows version for printing
- Include 'What's New' section
- Divide FAQ by factions
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- Add historical battle scenarios
- Allow uniting factions
- Increase max army size limit
- Add Rich Text export option
In-app purchases
Bad Things Happen
- Full Stat Cards$9.99
War Council
No in-app purchases
Questions
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