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Developer Update: Introducing Draft Mode

Developer Update: Introducing Draft Mode

As part of this year’s Skulls celebration, we’re incredibly excited to reveal a brand-new game mode for Combat Cards: Draft Mode. It’s amazing to finally see this feature come to life in-game. Draft offers a completely different style of play and opens up a whole new...

Developer Update: Balance Changes and Wazdakka Season

Developer Update: Balance Changes and Wazdakka Season

The new season will start on Monday, May 11th. From the measured and controlled warfare to the all out chaos and carnage of the Speed Freeks, we hurtle at top speed into a new Season with Wazdakka leading the Waaagh!  It should be seen as no coincidence that the...

Patch Notes 41.8

Patch Notes 41.8

Greetings, This update brings major preparations for the arrival of a new Warlord! NewImplemented assets for an upcoming WAAAGHlord, including: Artwork Special rule implementation Visual effects Ork themed UI implemented Fixes Fixed text localisation causing overlaps...

Deep Dive into Drop Rates: How Do I Get Cards?

Deep Dive into Drop Rates: How Do I Get Cards?

Greetings, Citizens! We’ve seen a lot of questions about how card packs actually work, especially around Focused Packs and x3 events. Some of this can be explained how randomness works in the short term versus how the system works over time. Before we get into the...

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Developer Update: Improvement to VFX Timings – Part 2

Hello everyone! I’m pleased to be able to get Part 2 of the VFX Timing Improvements out so soon after Part 1. While these changes are already out and live in the game, we wanted to give you a full breakdown of the improvements  we’ve  made in this...

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Developer Update: End of Season 24 Balance Changes

It's that time again! First of all I know that we have been promising some Warlord and Trait changes for a while now. I'm pleased to say the first pass of these are coming out now, with some value adjustments being made to 5 Warlords. The next part of this will be...

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Black Templar Giveaway Contest

Hello Citizens! It’s a very exciting time… It’s giveaway time! You are in for a chance to win a bunch of brand new Black Templar box-sets; enough to start your very own force of Eternal Crusaders, and a mighty one at that. In addition to this physical giveaway, 10...

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Developer Update: Improvement to VFX Timings – Part 1

As the game has grown over the course of the last two years, the VFX catalogue has too. The addition of new Warlords and Traits has been fairly constant and with that there has been a continual introduction of new VFX. This has meant that since the initial launch of...

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Developer Update: End of Season 23 Balance Changes

As some of you should be aware, as announced on Twitch, we'll be adding a new element to the End of Season Balance Pass. Namely that we will be including a list of cards to be added to the general release pool. This means that we now have a much more regular way of...

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Gameplay Modifiers in Friendly PvP

Hello Citizens. It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing the introduction of a temporary run of Gameplay Modifiers in the Friendly PvP game mode available to members of Clans. To celebrate this, we’re running a PvP mission, so that you can earn some extra...

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Developer Update: End of Season 22 Balance Changes

As ever we come to the end of another season and have another balance change to roll out. This season we are looking at only some bodyguards, as we still have some larger changes from the previous two changes to settle down. Overall from a bodyguard perspective things...

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Coming Soon to Combat Cards

Over the next few months we have some exciting new content and features dropping and we wanted to give you, the players, a sneak peek! We will soon be introducing a system of adverts to the game that will reward players with resources for watching them. Adverts will...

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Developer Update: End of Season 21 Balance Change

Once again here we are at the end of a Season and looking at the changes upcoming for next Season starting later today. With the last Season changes we saw a lot of Warlord rule changes so for the most part we’re going to leave Warlords and Traits alone while that...

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Community Caption Contest

Hi everyone, We’re thrilled to be running a Caption Contest for our Second Anniversary event. This post will detail the submission process and rules, as well as outline the terms and conditions of your participation. To reiterate the brief for submissions: To...

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