Middle-earth Hero Tracker Tool

Ever get sick of having to write-down your Heroes Might/Will/Fate statlines before every game of Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game? Annoyed with keeping tally with a pen and paper, or laying out your dice on hand-written grids and/or widgets?

Do you ever wish there was something that you could set up on your phone or tablet instead?

Me too. Lucky for us, it’s simple enough to program that I just went and did it.

Open it in any web browser at http://www.sbgherotracker.com or read on for more information!

The SBG Hero Tracker is also available in app form for Android devices. For a long time, the app was available on the Google Play Store, however due to a recent change in policy, I no longer wish to have my app listed there. I am now however hosting a signed APK of the app on this website and you can download it here if you wish.

The Middle-earth SBG Hero Stats Tracker is dead simple to use. To begin, simply fill in the form at the bottom of the page to add your Hero’s starting statline and (optional) faction. Once added, you can touch/click on the stat to reduce the value as you expend Might, lose Wounds, etc. The Hero’s statline will grey out when their Wounds are reduced to 0 to make it easier to keep track of who is still in the fight.

You can restore a depleted Stat or Wound by clicking the + icon beneath the stat should you have your Wounds healed or any other stat restored in game through spell or scenario.

The (optional) Break Point Tracker can keep note of your total model count and any Casualties taken for calculating whether your army is broken or below 25% strength. You can even keep score of how many kills your individual Hero models make and – if given a faction – the tracker will automatically update the opposing factions Casualties.

The Tracker will also persist your Heroes stats between sessions and/or should you close or refresh the window accidentally. There’s even an undo button to correct any misclicks or finger slips, and a Reset button to restore your starting statlines and reset the casualty counter between games – especially handy for tournament play.

This tool wouldn’t be half as useful as it is now without feedback from the community, so please feel free to drop a comment on this post or email me at complaints(at)michaelhanns.com with any comments/criticisms/feature requests. Hopefully you find this tool as useful for your games of Middle-earth SBG as I do!

As always, thanks for reading, and happy wargaming!

Version Notes

1.0 – Basic version. Add Heroes. Tracker Might, Will, Fate, Wounds. ‘Undo’ button/stack.
1.1 – Added ‘Kills’ to Heroes.
1.2 – Added ability to ‘Add’ points of Might, Wounds, etc back due to spells like Renew. Added ‘Reset’ button. Heroes no longer removed when dead, just scored out name. Heroes removeable with a close button.
1.3 – Better input validation, dead heroes are greyed out. Bug fixes.
1.4 – ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ faction separators for characters.
1.4.1 – Nicer, cleaner way of inputting text (clears on ‘Add Hero’ and fields now work with ‘Next’ button on mobile
1.5 – Adds Break Point calculator! Can be dismissed, or used to calculate whether at your break point or <= 25% starting models
1.5.1 – Adding kills to characters now increases casualties on opposing
break point calculator
1.5.2 – Now persisting the break point tracker data (can still reset with reset)
1.5.3 – Improved instructions
1.5.4 – Now preventing accidental double tap zooming on touch devices when incrementing/decrementing values by 2
1.5.5 – Fixed issue where broken calculation was incorrect and reset would clear total model count in break point tracker
1.5.6 – Fixed issue where ‘Reset’ did not fix opacity upon resetting wounds
Also fixes issue where double clicking on a table cell would cause text to get highlighting – so now we stop zoom on (modern) mobile browsers and stop text highlighting on computers
1.6 – MAJOR visual improvements. Background images, better use of colour, font tweaking and so on.
1.6.1 – Adds break point tracker dismissal warning in case you didn’t mean to make it go away.
1.7 – Recent heroes dropdown – recently added heroes go in here for a quicker way to populate heroes (without needing to look up their stats again)!
1.7.1 – Minor visual improvements to dropdowns
1.7.2 – Fixed issue where cookies expired from recent heroes after a short time. Fixed undo issue where undoing a Wounds change of 1 to 0 wouldn’t revert the transparency after undoing it. Also added a little margin above the error text under recent heroes.
1.7.2b – I fixed updating dead transparencies for going 1 to 0 wounds.. but not from 0 to 1 wounds. Whoops.
1.8 – I added a checkbox to allow certain values to exceed their max for abilities which can bolster stats beyond their normal limits.
1.9 – Added ‘Break %’ column to the Break Point Tracker that lets the user specify their break % to allow for for armies like Isenguard that break after 66% casualties. Defaults at 50%
1.9.1 – The list of Recent Heroes is now sorted alphabetically.
1.9.2 – Android App version targetting Android SDK 34
1.9.3 – Better Help Text layout – help also collapsible now. Settings menu to unlink automatic Casualty incrementing. Break Point enable/disable moved to Settings menu.