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A Very Chaotic Chaosmas: Be’lakor’s Totally-Not-Cursed Holiday Blog
Greetings, creatures of shadow! 'Tis the season… when snow falls, bells ring, and Be’lakor glares disapprovingly at all mortal festivities from the shadows of the Warp. Yes, commanders, Chaosmas is here! While most people spend the holidays decorating trees, sharing...
Developer Update: Introducing Supreme Commander Be’lakor
The Dark Master has arrived and closes the year as our last Warlord of 2025. It is fitting to have the first of the Daemon Princes as our final send off, and what a send off he will be! We have been spoiled for Chaos Supreme commanders, one for each Chaos god, one for...
Patch Notes 41.1
Greetings, Commanders, This update brings major preparations for the arrival of a certain new Supreme Commander, along with key fixes, visual improvements, and festive seasonal updates. Something powerful has been stirring behind the scenes… and the battlefield will...
Developer Update: Introducing Tank Commander Ackerman
Greeting Citizens! The latest Combat Card arrives to the rumbling of armoured treads just in time for Tanksgiving. An imposing card in its own right, as is to be expected from the Astra Militarum’s armoured division, Ackerman introduces a new Warlord archetype with...
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Design Blog 108: Fear and Scout traits added
Back in blog post 94 we revealed the next four traits (the one-off events which trigger when a card is deployed) that we’re adding to the game: Poison, Regeneration, Scout and Fear. Poison and Regeneration went in a while ago and as the Fear and Scout traits came...
Design Blog 107: Design process: Battle pass – part 2
A few weeks ago I talked about designing a battle pass for Combat Cards - not to confirm exactly how that feature will work but to look at how I approach designing something new. Let’s continue by looking at what the battle pass is not and how I know that. Approaches...
Developer Update: v29.5 & Beyond…
Welcome to the first Developer Update of 2020! After a very busy 2019 saw the launch of Warhammer Combat Cards, we're looking forward to releasing a host of new features and updates over the next few months to make the game even better. Some of those will be...
Design Blog 106: Bodyguard point changes
A few weeks ago we ran the first round of changes intended to help balance the game by looking at Warlords and their special rules. This achieved the desired effect of making some previously unpopular Warlords (hi there, Yarrick) viable, but we’ll be returning to the...
Design Blog 105: Faction catch-up: Necrons
Welcome to the latest faction catch-up, taking us to mid-way through our look at each faction’s current state. As a quick aside, I received some feedback that these catch-ups aren’t terribly useful because they’re posted every other week and are using data from a...
Design Blog 104: Season pass design process – part 1
Rather than the traditional end of year look back at 2019, I thought I’d focus on the future by running through how I approach designing a new feature for Combat Cards. I’m going to use a ‘season pass’ as a case study for this because that’s what I’m working on right...
Design Blog 103: Faction catch-up: Space Marines
Welcome to part four of this series looking at each faction's stats from October 2019 and their card and damage distribution, win rate, popularity and so on. This week we're looking at the largest faction in the game, the Space Marines. As ever these stats only count...
Design Blog 102: Community challenge results
A couple of weeks ago we celebrated reaching blog post 100 by running a challenge for the community to find the Warhammer 40,000 reference we used to name 15 of our cards. We then extended the challenge by adding another 5 cards because you guys absolutely smashed the...
Developer Update: v29 – Ranked Mode
Welcome to another Developer Update. By now version 29.1 should be appearing in your app stores, and we encourage you to grab it as soon as you can. There are some some pretty big changes on the way, so let's dive right in and explore them. The first thing you'll...
Design Blog 101: Faction catch-up – Tyranids
Following the Chaos and Aeldari catch-ups, this week we're looking at how the Tyranid faction is currently fairing. As before, these stats only reflect 'normal' battles, and they cover any deck with a Tyranid Warlord, even if it also includes Ork or Chaos bodyguards....