BattleBase vs The
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BattleBase
Manage your tabletop wargaming battles with guided setup, phase-by-phase turn tracking, and automatic scoring. Keep track of command points, stratagems, and victory points effortlessly. Connect with friends and review your battle history.
- Guided battle setup
- Phase-by-phase turn tracking
- Automatic victory point scoring
- Command point and stratagem management
- Connect with friends
- Battle event logs
- Dice roller
- Chess timer
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GUIDED BATTLE SETUP Choose your battle size, muster your armies, select your mission, set up the battlefield, select fixed or tactical secondary missions, deploy your units, determine who will go first, and even remember to resolve your pre-battle abilities! Then hit that start button to begin the fight for glory! PHASE BY PHASE CONTROL Step through the phases of each player's turn as intended by the rules and objectives. Your CP each turn is automatically added so you'll never forget, score primary and secondary objective points at the correct times, get prompted to select secret missions, and more! VICTORY POINT SCORING Simply tap to score points for primary and secondary missions at the correct time. See your overall score and progress for each mission during the battle, and know when you've hit the limit! COMMAND POINT AND STRATAGEM USAGE Automatically gain your CP at the start of your turn, check how many CP you have, see the specific stratagems available to you for the current phase, and simply click a button to activate them and spend your CP. Per-phase limits stop you accidentally using a stratagem twice (we're looking at you, Command Re-roll!). CONNECT WITH FRIENDS Connect with your friends to start a battle that's linked to each of your accounts, see overall stats of your battle history with each friend, and see your friends' battles against other players through our updates feed. BATTLE EVENT LOGS See exactly when that stratagem was used, review the points that were scored, confirm you actually did get your additional CP at the start of your turn (until you realise BattleBase doesn't make mistakes and you stop checking), and more! A HISTORY OF ALL YOUR BATTLES See the full history of your previous battles against your friends, including names, scores, and events. SHARED EXPERIENCE Enable both players to easily access information about the state of the battle, including the primary objective, each player's selected secondary objectives, victory and command points, and stratagems available to their opponent. MULTI-DEVICE SUPPORT The ultimate large screen shared experience via a large screen next to your gaming table. Don't have a large screen? Each player can control the battle using their smartphone. Or for the ultimate experience, use phones or tablets alongside your large screen. BattleBase will keep them all in sync. DICE ROLLER Quickly roll those 100 attacks, rerolling the 1s or all fails, and with exploding sixes! CHESS TIMER Train for that tournament, or just ensure you and your friend can get through that game before your better half threatens to leave you... again! ...and much more! Please refer to https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ for terms of use.
The
Access a vast library of video content designed to elevate your competitive tabletop gaming skills. Learn advanced strategies, analyze meta-game shifts, and master specific factions through expert-led sessions and professional match breakdowns.
- Hundreds of hours of video content
- Advanced strategy sessions
- Live streamed professional games
- Deep dives on every faction
- Cutting-edge meta-analysis
- Master class series
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Want to join a global community focused on taking your competitive 40k skills to the next level? The War Room is the subscription for you! Whether you are new to the hobby or a tournament veteran, we offer hundreds of hours of video content focused on making you the best competitive 40k player! If you don't have the time to play dozens of matches, the War Room allows you to skip the steep learning curve of 40k and easily access the combined knowledge of professional players. We've got you covered with advanced strategy sessions, live streamed games between tournament champions, deep dives on every single faction, cutting-edge meta-analysis, and master class series to help you play like the pros. Sign up today to access our entire catalog of videos to start winning with your favorite faction in no time! What video series do we offer? Coaching Matches: Live streamed games between professional 40k players focused on teaching you how to think, ask questions, and develop strategies like the pros. Strategy Session: A weekly session focused on a specific strategic (macro) or tactical (micro) concept. Popular series include the mission series, terrain series, secondary discussions, combat jank, and retrospective analysis of mistakes made during a coach’s games to teach you how to learn from the games you play. Master Class: A series which condenses a coach’s expert knowledge of a faction into a five part video series. The first focuses on the faction’s optimal playstyles. The second and third explain the key datasheets and how to get the most out of them using the faction’s strongest synergies and rules. The fourth zooms out to a macro perspective on suggested gameplans, matchups, how to deploy, utiltize terrain, choose secondaries, and much more. Lastly, the fifth video puts everything you have learned up to that point into practice walking you through high level professional matches demonstrating exactly what you need to do to win with your faction consistently and improve your gameplay! Faction Focus: There are several faction Focus videos each week, which will give you a snapshot of the ever-evolving landscape of what recent lists look like for that faction, tech choices and strategies that are performing well, advice on winning tough matchups, and community Q sessions. Faction Focus - Datasheets: A short form video series that centers on a specific datasheet relevant to the meta that you need to know. It details its significant rules and synergies, how it plays on the tabletop, and its weaknesses for when you fight against it. Know Thy Enemy: A detailed breakdown of everything you need to know about how to play against a specific faction. This series is done in two parts. 1) A macro perspective of the faction’s rules and datasheets and 2) A session showing you how to beat them on the tabletop. To access all features and content you can subscribe to The-War-Room on a monthly basis with an auto-renewing subscription right inside the app.* Pricing can vary by region and will be confirmed before purchase in the app. In app subscriptions will automatically renew at the end of their cycle. All payments will be paid through your iTunes Account and may be managed under Account Settings after the initial payment. Subscription payments will automatically renew unless deactivated at least 24-hours before the end of the current cycle. Your account will be charged for renewal at least 24-hours prior to the end of the current cycle. Cancellations are incurred by disabling auto-renewal. Terms of Service: https://thewarroom.vhx.tv/tos Privacy Policy: https://thewarroom.vhx.tv/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: BattleBase at free with in-app purchases against The's subscription. BattleBase also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.6). The's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 73%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. BattleBase sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and The sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
The holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 110 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of BattleBase's written reviews are positive against 100% of The's.
BattleBase ships an update every 2 months, The every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BattleBase | The |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (110 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 110 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mark McFarlane | Art of War Gaming LLC |
Customer experience
BattleBase
The
Bugs and requests
BattleBase
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
The
Requested features
2 requests- Additional search/organizing/sorting functions (e.g., sort all videos by newest)
- More army-specific content
In-app purchases
BattleBase
- BattleBase Supporter$4.991 Month
The
- The-War-Room Monthly$39.991 Month






