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Developer Update: Introducing Kravek Morne

Developer Update: Introducing Kravek Morne

While it has been many years since Perturabo has been seen in real-space, the Iron Warriors have been in a constant state of activity, brutalising their foes, and bringing the most intimidating of daemon engines to bear. Among them few have been more active in recent...

Patch Notes 41.7

Patch Notes 41.7

Greetings, This update brings major preparations for the arrival of a new Warlord! New Implemented assets for an upcoming Warlord, including: Finalised artwork Special Rule implementation Visual effects (VFX) Fixes Added social links to official Combat Cards channels...

Developer Update: Balance Changes and Iron Warriors Season

Developer Update: Balance Changes and Iron Warriors Season

The new season will start on Monday, April 13th. From the dazzling firepower brought by T’au technology we descend to the grim trenches of the Iron Warriors. Both bring impressive firepower to the field, but the Iron Warriors do so by slowly and inevitably grinding...

The Eggs Are Stirring: Easter Events

The Eggs Are Stirring: Easter Events

Across the void, something stirs within the brood nests. Deep beneath the battlefield, alien eggs crack open and the Hive Mind awakens. This Easter season, Warhammer Combat Cards erupts with events, rewards, and powerful new arrivals ready to swarm the battlefield....

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Developer Update: v30.8 – Login Improvements & Status Effects

Hey everyone! Version 30.8 is now live and should be available to download (though as always, sometimes it can take a little while for updates to appear on app stores so keep a look out!) and brings a few changes to Combat Cards that will improve some of the early...

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Developer Update: End of Season 8 Balance Changes

With the end of the current season comes the next balance changes. We have some hotly debated changes coming up for: Fear, Poison and the Cannoness. Along with the usual adjustments to some of the highest and lowest performing bodyguards, as well as a slight buff to...

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Developer Update: Improved AI Deck Building

As a longtime player one thing that always felt like it could have been better was the AI deck composition in campaigns. While the difficulty always felt appropriate the AI’s reliance on using higher cost cards always felt overly unbalanced and more often than not led...

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Developer Update: New Traits and Balance Changes – August 2020

New Traits and Balance Changes For the balance pass this Season we have a lot of content to go through! New Traits, Warlord rule changes, and a few card balance changes, as well as some other surprises releasing very soon. As well as Inspiring Presence hitting the...

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New Trait Incoming: Inspiring Presence

Hi everyone! It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new trait and I’m excited to announce the latest, which will be tied into the new Indomitus release: Inspiring Presence!  So how does it work? First thoughts may be as a direct counter to Fear? Well it’s a bit...

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Developer Update: v30.5 – Fixes & Account Linking

Welcome to another Developer Update! Version 30.5 should be appearing in an app store near you very soon, and though it's a small update*, it contains some important backend fixes that have caused some issues you may have experienced previously as well as some new...

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Developer Update: Balance Changes – July 2020

Developer Update: Balance Changes July Hi everyone, this will be my first blog post for Combat Cards, and it’s going to be a big one! Most people will recognise me by my game handle MadEmp, and for those of you who don’t, I am a new hire for Well Played Games joining...

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Developer Update – Card Battler, Trait Fixes, & More…

Today we will be launching our new ‘card battler’ system! The team has been hard at work developing a new backend system that will allow us to inject more creativity into the game through new traits, Warlord special rules, changes to the gameplay, and more. ...

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Design Blog 119: Changing how this blog works

My goal with these blog posts was to talk about work that's in progress, why we made certain creative decisions and to expose some of the behind the scenes elements that go into making a game. Since the end of 2017 I’ve posted almost every week, alongside the hobby...

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Developer Update: v30.0 – Player Profiles & Customisation

Welcome to another Developer Update! Version 30.0 should be appearing in an app store near you very soon, and we're excited about the new feature it brings, and what it means for the future. Introducing Player Profiles Player Profiles are a new feature to Combat...

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