It's great that Halifax is going to have a digital app, and hopefully will support all the current operating systems (iOS, Android, Windows, Amazon, etc).
What I'm hoping it will include:
**All stat cards and upgrade cards (I think all players will expect this), including any corrections/FAQs/erratas that have been made, and changes can be made quickly to any card requiring a edit by developers.
**Tournament tracking (for all supported formats), with an option to send results to Halifax rankings (if that's your thing).
**Access to current FAQs/erratas (might be extra work but would be very useful). Or a link to their location on the Wyrd website.
Other stuff: cost of the app and buying additional faction decks, considering many players already own all their respective the wave 1 and wave 2 cards and buying them again in the app may cause issues.
As someone who has played Warmachine and used War Room (only the 1st version, not their current version), this is what I DON'T WANT TO OCCUR in the Malifaux community because of a digital app:
People who play ONLY using the app. (Yes, there are Warmahordes players like this). Tablets/phones aren't the most reliable and can crash during events. I don't want to have to ask my opponent to hand me their $$$ device just to show me a stat card. Stat cards should be required for all competitive events, and even just for general play, and the app would be used as a list builder/tournament tracker rather than a damage tracker like in War Room. Because of issues of apps crashing and losing information, and then time being used to restart the device, time is lost to play and the player whose device crashed may not remember all the damage models have taken before the app crashed.
Also, the current edition of War Room charged players to pay for stat cards they already paid for in the last edition of the app (Warmachine MKII), which I found to be greedy and unfair, which is why I refuse to use the the MKIII edition of the app. For example, I own all the Cygnar cards for MKII in War Room. In MKIII, I would have to re-purchase them. I wasn't going to spend that money again, especially when I bought the deck of all the updated cards.
This being said, from my experience with War Room, please don't make it a damage tracker.
This is strictly my opinions from experience with War Room (both previous and current edition).