Warhammer Combat Cards

The Warhammer 40,000 card battling game. Download for free from:

Welcome to CombatCards.com

Warhammer Combat Cards is a digital card game made by Well Played Games in conjunction with Games Workshop. Read on for an overview of the game, or click here for our detailed ‘how to play’ game guide. We also have our weekly developer blog on the making of the game, and a look at the classic, paper Combat Cards from Games Workshop.

Latest News

Developer Update: Improved Campaign Scoring

Developer Update: Improved Campaign Scoring

Greetings, citizens, Starting next Monday, we’re introducing a new scoring system for Campaigns that fundamentally reworks the existing Victory Points (VP) model. This change aims to address long-standing issues with fairness, clarity, and strategy while maintaining a...

Patch Notes 38.11

Patch Notes 38.11

Greetings, citizens,  Version 38.11 is now live!  Apocalypse Seasons: Apocalypse mode now features weekly seasons with inclusive faction scoring and simplified resets, offering a low-pressure, flexible progression system. Read more on the blog! Resolved an...

Developer Update: Introducing Apocalypse Seasons

Developer Update: Introducing Apocalypse Seasons

Greetings, citizens, We’re excited to unveil a meaningful update to Apocalypse mode, transforming it into a consistent, rewarding feature of the game with a well-defined purpose. Much like Ranked, Apocalypse will now have its own Seasons, but with some key differences...

Developer Update: Balance Changes and Tanksgiving Season

Developer Update: Balance Changes and Tanksgiving Season

The new season will start on Monday, November 25th. Greetings, citizens, Disgusted by the poor use of steel and machinery by the Orks in the Evil Sunz Season, the Iron Hands have taken to the field to show what true mechanical might looks like! They’ve also been...

Collect

Build your unique collection of cards, each featuring a new or classic Warhammer 40,000 miniature painted by Games Workshop’s ‘Eavy Metal team.

Assemble

Select a Warlord and create a deck around their special rule. Will you include allies? Should you spend your points on a few, powerful cards, or a horde?

Battle

 

Take on enemy decks in quick, turn-based, tactical battles. Easy to play but with great depth, use timing, positioning and combo’s to crush their Warlord.

Compete

Take part in Campaigns and Missions based on iconic Warhammer 40,000 battles. Defeat AI opponents, climb the leaderboards and win great prizes.

Learn

Learn about the Warhammer 40,000 universe and the characters in your collection. Enjoy references from the first to the most recent edition of the game.

Experience

New characters are added to the game at the same time Games Workshop releases them, so you can battle with classic and the very latest releases.

Combat Cards

Each card is based on a character from Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000, and includes stats which reflect how that miniature plays in the tabletop game. 

The more powerful a card, the more points it costs to include in your deck.

As you upgrade cards you increase their Wounds, and their ranged, melee and psychic attack stats. 

Upgrade them enough and you unlock the card’s ‘trait’, adding more depth to the combat with special powers, like Distract, Furious Charge and Fear.

Factions

Build decks from every Warhammer 40,000 army, grouped into eight factions: