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Enhancements FAQ

Enhancements FAQ

Greetings Citizens, The battlefield has changed. With the arrival of Enhancements, Warlords now have new ways to grow stronger, fight smarter, and adapt to your strategy. We know you might have questions about unlocking slots, choosing the right boosts, or using the...

Developer Update: Introducing Supreme Commander Kaldor Draigo

Developer Update: Introducing Supreme Commander Kaldor Draigo

Greetings Citizen, We’re pleased to announce our latest Supreme Commander, hailing from the Grey Knights: Kaldor Draigo. As a Warlord, he brings a strong opening alpha striker, along with a potent defensive ability. First, let's have a look at his all-round stats: At...

Warhammer Combat Cards 6th Anniversary Celebration!

Warhammer Combat Cards 6th Anniversary Celebration!

Greetings, Citizens! In today’s blog, we’re giving you a full rundown of all the events, rewards, and releases you can expect over the next two weeks of anniversary celebrations—starting this Friday (08/08)! Headline Feature: Enhancements The spotlight feature of our...

Patch Notes 40.0

Patch Notes 40.0

A New Era of Customization Begins Welcome to the 40.0 Update, one of our most exciting patches yet! We’re introducing a massive new feature, launching a legendary Supreme Commander, and making a wave of fixes and improvements based on your feedback. Here’s what’s new:...

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Design Blog 70: The final push

Hi, and first of all, if you’re reading this then thanks for your enormous patience. As you’ll have noticed things have been pretty quiet on our Facebook page and in the game recently, so I imagine the audience for this post is two die-hard fans and someone who...

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Design Blog 69: A Tale of 13(ish) Painters – Part 3

Hi, and welcome to the second milestone for the 13(ish) painters taking part in our six month long painting challenge. Each month we have to paint 10 Power / 100 points of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures or suffer a cake / humiliation based penalty (with one month off by...

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Design Blog 68: Pausing the blog

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 for...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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Design Blog 64: Blogs versus bugs

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 with this...

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Design Blog 63: A Tale of 13(ish) Painters

The Combat Cards team has been working on the game for a while now, and plans to expand and improve it for years to come. To avoid the problem of people becoming ‘burned out’ from working on a single game for so long we look for interesting challenges and activities...

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Design Blog 62: Game Dev Focus – Art

Hi everyone, continuing our occasional series on game development roles (see coding here, and studio support here), this time we have a guest post from one of our artists. Thanks, Stu.   Artists Who are you then? Hello! I'm Claire and I'm a Lead Artist at Well...

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Design Blog 61: How we design new features

Stu - This week's blog is a guest post from another member of the Combat Cards' team. Rather than write a long intro, I'm going to hand you straight over to Thanos:   Clans Hello, my name is Thanos and I have been working as a designer on Combat Cards for the...

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