It's been a while since our last update here, and we've been busy. If you haven't visited ifworldscollide.com in the last few weeks, it's a different site now. Here's what changed, and what's coming next.

A WHOLE NEW SITE

The site has been rebuilt to make building a faction feel designed, not like filling in a form.

• New look, light and dark. A fresh design across the whole site, with a light mode (Profile → Site design). Faction headers stay readable over any banner art, and every faction gets its own default icon.

• Weapon loadouts. Units can now offer weapon options, and players pick a loadout in the roster builder with the points following their choice. No more five copies of a unit for five guns. Factions that already have "same unit, different gun" copies can merge them in one click, and Undo is there if you change your mind.

• Faction rules. Factions can offer army-wide rules with a points cost (flat or a percentage) that players choose for their roster.

• Points you can trust. Ability costs add up exactly to a unit's total, a rounding bug that overcharged 95 units by a point is fixed, and authors can set a manual points value (marked with a *).

• Buy the miniature. Authors can link where to get each unit's model, right from the unit card.

• Better gallery. Artwork filters, ten faction tags (including new Horror, Modern Age, Villainous and Heroic), and a live preview of your gallery tile while you edit.

• Faster, friendlier moderation. Reviews now have a discussion thread between moderators and authors, and an automatic check catches incomplete submissions before they wait in the queue.

• Under the hood. We're moving the site's database to a new home that's faster and easier to keep healthy, and testing is now automated, so updates ship more often and break less.

COMING SOON: THE IWC VIRTUAL TABLETOP

We've been building a virtual tabletop so you can play IWC in your browser with your own factions. You make the decisions, and the table does the bookkeeping. Paid members get the first look today in a members-only post, with a short teaser from the latest build.

WHAT'S NEXT

• The VTT: turning the beta into something you can play.

• Supporter recognition on the site: soon you'll be able to link your Patreon to your IWC account. Supporters get a badge on their profile, a decoration on their factions, and a spot on a new Supporters page. (Shard of S1R, we haven't forgotten the website listing we promised you.)

• Link your Discord: connect your Discord account to IWC so everyone in the server knows which faction author you are.

• Shared rosters: save rosters to your account, share them with a link, and let faction authors recommend starting lists.

STAY IN THE LOOP

We'll keep posting devlogs here as things ship. Joining as a free member gets you every one. Paid tiers (from $2) also unlock behind-the-scenes posts and early looks at the VTT. If you'd like to help fund more development time, the paid tiers make a real difference, and they'll come with recognition on the site soon.

Come hang out and tell us what you think on Discord: https://discord.gg/mj9FETzvej

Thanks for sticking with us. More soon!