Battle Map 2 App Reviews

I have a year old 64 gb Ipad 2 with plenty of space and whenever I try to open it crashes. Already restarted my ipad several times. Please Fix!

Having similar issue with app on ipad 2. App loads then crashes after music starts. Newest OS and restarts. Love the app but needs resolution.

I love this app and use it for my game night by hooking it up to an old LCD monitor I have lying on my table. We use the miniatures right on top. The new update has a great new skin, but it completely lost the rotate display ability on the iPhone 5. This renders my app useless with my monitor because it wont go to landscape mode. Please fix this as soon as possible!

I really find this app easy to use and fast on map making however I feel that charging people $0.99 for five extra tiles is asking a bit much since the app its self was $30.00 and if I were to buy all the extra tiles, it would run me another $10.00 or so... Either way, one suggestion I do have is a clean up of auto sorting of the tiles... Its to messy coming from the first Battle Map.

It was a tough decision to spend $30 on an app. I cant give you an unequivocal yea or nea vote, but a few key points to consider. The app mostly works as promised. Most notably, the dual monitor view using AirPlay is great. Landscapes and icons are nice, and iCloud works well, even prompting me to reconcile conflicting versions of maps across my iPad and iPhone. I am going to use it for the next few sessions. That said, here is what doesnt work so great... 1. Way too few free icons. You can mitigate by importing from various free sets... Just google for them. However, your imported icons dont sync across devices so you may want to import on each if building on multiple. 2. Line of sight isnt great. There are lots of leaks revealing things prematurely. Doors are especially quirky. I found that placing them in the middle of a square is your best bet. 3. Lighting effects are broken. I can see a campfire in a room not yet explored. 4. Did I mention that there are way too few free icons? Insulting to then charge me for small additional packs. 5. Finally, groups would each have to buy their own copy for a game. I guess my group will be sticking with the airplay approach. Ending on a positive, the developers seem very responsive to FB comments and other feedback.

Store for extra stuff doesnt support iPad 1.

Ok I am pretty unimpressed with this app now. I had high hopes in a newer version, and none of the things, that were wrong with the first one, never got fixed in the second. The only new thing about this version is you can buy way overpriced tokens, and very few I might add like 10 tokens for 2 dollars, and a online connection. I have not tested the online play yet, but I would have been happy if the problems in the last one were fixed. The one thing that they did right was being able to export you maps and not force you to keep the tokens in custom area. Problem 1: Custom imports Yeah you can import custom tokens but it is very unorganized. You can not tag your custom tokens. Problem 2: No tile import function. Problem 3: LOS is still terrible. I can see through doors at the right angle. I made a suggestion to "allow triggers to rooms that when triggered (like players move across a certain tile) allow a predefined line of site of the room. That would fix a lot of problems" Problem 4: Paying an arm and a leg for tiles and symbols. $2.00 for 10 TOKENS? I could possibly see myself paying $2.00 for like 50. I have said this all of problems 1-3 before in the last review but since nothing was done to correct this problem I am giving a lower rating. This app has great potential. Dont ruin it by missing key things that need to be fixed.

I was so excited to play this app for a year now. Once I finally bought it I was jumping for joy. Until I tried to open it, it crashes and your not able to play the game. Plz fix :(

Just bought BM 2 (not as an upgrade). It loads into a black screen every time on my iPod touch 4. Reinstalling doesnt help. I have 15 GB of memory. Why doesnt this work?

This is an amazing app. It works fine on my iPad 1. Works perfectly for our Shadowun group here in Nashville. The ability to account for LOS and a number of character attributes makes the table experience excellent. I would like to see larger, and more integrated map levels in the future, but this is a must buy for a GM with a tablet.

Im a lifelong rpg-gamer who loves mobile technology but lets be real here: the idea of this app greatly overshadows its reality. The iPad is too small and too unwieldy for the precision work of virtual tabletop gameplay. Using a desktop or laptop for a virtual tabletop is a vastly superior experience to Battle Map on an iPad. I applaud the efforts of the app creators for exploring a new frontier for keeping our beloved hobby alive, but a tablet (or, God forbid, a smart phone) is just plain the wrong venue. I live my iPad. Its hip, sophisticated, trendy, powerful, productive, and entertaining. But its just plain the wrong device for virtual tabletop gaming.

This is an amazing app, once I began to use it I fell in love with it. The online capabilities really make it stand out. I really like the option to host/join a game and the implementation of LOS. Its only short failings are the lack of a dice roller and lack of a chat function. It also needs support for secret doors. Some times it fails to load maps from iCloud, but Im not so sure thats a fault of the app. As always, more tokens would be appreciated. Also, speaking of tiles and tokens, they cost extra, though some are included in the initial purchase. If it wasnt $29.99 I would overlook those flaws. But that is a bit of a costly price tag. Its difficult to convince newcomers in my group to shell out that kind of money, but it is well worth it being as there is a lack of other apps to chose from. But Watch out, 3d tabletop I doing some pretty interesting things, and its a whole lot cheaper. Battle map 2 better step up its game if it wants to stay on top.

Use this app on Ipad and Iphone 5. I have not had any problems so far. Great App, I recommend to anyone for running adventures.

- increase the number of custom objects in the library please! - allow the insertion of objects of any size Please fix!

I really like this app. Its not perfect but it does enough to enhance our D&D sessions. I connect the app to a tv via Apple TV and it is awesome for allowing a view for everyone. I have imported my own icons, which was easy to do and they work flawlessly with the app. My only complaint is that object selection, when objects become clustered, can be tedious. Also, the life bars are great for hit point tracking and provide a video game-like, visual component but they can be a tad bulky and a minor annoyance. But I love the ability to darken the map and use light sources to provide perception limits for the PCs. Also, hidden objects allow for masking traps until PCs trigger them, as well as concealing invisible creatures. Nice little function. Plus, the software team is constantly listening to feedback and providing upgrades. Overall, this has made me never want to go back to using dry erase markers on a laminated battle grid.

Its a great tool for making maps. However, it would be nice to be able to use the light source and LOS tools with a map thats a PDF background. Could you just draw lines that break line of sight? Or at least give us LOS-blocking walls that arent a full-square wide?

If your looking for a app that needs a Map, Dice, Calculator and Characters. This is the best app here on the AppStore other RPG apps doesnt do it better than this app here its truly a treasure and I payed full price for this. If your buying this at a discount or a special sell then consider yourself lucky. Do not have second thoughts about this app its well designed and polished just get it already Im sure you wont regret it. I do wish they had a Game Center Leader-board and achievements that would be a very awesome feature I would really love to see.

Extremely customizable. You can make anything from a dungeon to an open field. Buy it now! Definitely worth the price!

Was a bit doubtful at first, but this app far surpasses my expectations. Map creation is easy and intuitive with gorgeous results. The app itself can be used for gameplay, but the fact that it supports multiple alternatives (simply using the app as a board or printing the maps out) makes this extremely powerful. Not only that but the object creation and background importing offer tremendous levels of customization that make this useful for even the most unique "dungeon masters". Simply incredible. Worth every cent. Hopes for the future: more items to purchase (saves me the trouble of making my own), ability to create custom background tiles, more customization on custom object creation (definable size, automatic default settings) Awesome app. One of my best purchases yet.

If your a GM and have long-distance players, this is the app! The online play works well and everything is quick and easy to use, as it should. Did I mention it actually works! Ive tried every clunky RPG tabletop sim out there, this is the one ... In fact the only one that works well with no learning curves. PS ... I do wish the dice roller showed me the rolls for my network players. Umby