Design Blog 68: Pausing the blog

Mar 29, 2019

Over the last few weeks we’ve had a few people ask if Combat Cards has been cancelled, but if anything the opposite is true. Our team has never been larger, with several coders moving across from Well Played’s other team to help us out.   Shh… The reason...

Design Blog 67: A Tale of 13(ish) Painters – Part 2

Mar 22, 2019

Today is the first milestone for the 13(ish) painters taking part in our six month long painting challenge. You can read the intro post here, but basically we each have to paint 10 Power / 100 points of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures every month or suffer a penalty (with...

Design Blog 66: How we choose new Warlords – part 2

Mar 15, 2019

Welcome to part two of our look at why we choose some Warhammer 40,000 miniatures to be Warlords and others bodyguards. You can find part one here, where we discussed how Warlords can add new deck building strategies to the game, using the T’au and Tyranid Warlords as...

Design Blog 65: How we choose new Warlords – part 1

Mar 8, 2019

We add a new Warlord to each faction every six months, and as the next ‘Warlord month’ is approaching our preparations are underway. Warlords take longer to add to the game, as each has a unique special rule, and we need to prepare those ahead of releasing the cards...

Design Blog 64: Blogs versus bugs

Mar 1, 2019

Hi everyone, I thought I’d try an experiment with this week’s post – can I get across a difficult concept without it sounding like I’m ranting / complaining? Y’see, each time I post one of these blogs, someone always comments that I shouldn’t be wasting time...