Hey Kards community!

With Season 16 closed and the ladder reset, it's time to get to know this month's Officer Club Championship participants that will be playing for their share of the $1000 prize pool. Let's congratulate the following players for their qualification:

1. Jking7
   
2. 0CanadaBear0
   
3. wild_eyes
   
4. Blue_Blast
   
5. 少妇白洁
   
6. AriBigBehn
   
7. Titan
   
8. Darkness

Remember, in the Officer Club Championship, the top 8 players of the season will fight for a $1000 prize pool. The pool will be split in the following way:

• 1st place - $500
  
• 2nd place - $300
  
• 3rd place - $200

All players must bring three decks from three different major nations. Once a player wins a match using a specific deck in a series, they can not bring that deck again until the following round. This means that to win the tournament, the winning player will have to win with each of their decks, making each player only as strong as their weakest deck, inevitably making for some exciting and entertaining matches!

The decklist will be made public, and we will broadcast with comments on the fighting. This is an excellent opportunity for you to learn some tips and tricks from the best KARDS players. Use this knowledge to your own advantage in regular matches and the upcoming KARDS Open #2 (sign up and participate!).

The third Officers Club Championship (OCC) will take place on the 15th of August at 15:00 - 22:00 UTC. Join us for all the action covered by community casters and experience a unique insight into the highest level of play in KARDS.

Catch all the action live on www.twitch.tv/kardsccg , www.facebook.com/kardsccg, our Youtube channel, or the Steam store page.

Hello KARDS community!

We are super excited to share with you all the details for the second KARDS Open!

Back at it again: 1939 Games presents the Kards Open #2 powered by 983 Media. In this tournament, you bring your three best decks to the battlefield and fight for the top with a $1000 prize pool. Who will reign supreme as the ultimate tactician? Join the fight with Swiss spread across two days (August 29th - 30th). Then, qualifying Top 8 finishers will battle for the prize pool on September 5th with the Top 8 live stream on September 6th.

For more information Join the 983 Discord: https://discord.gg/dAbfkYF or sign up and check out all the details on the tournament here:

👉 KARDS Open #2 Signup

We can’t wait to see who will come out on top this time around. Previous KARDS Open it was the veteran Darkness taking on the relative competitive newcomer Terror DE in the Grand Finals, with Darkness closing out the tournament with a clean sweep.

Will we see the old guard at the top again or can the new dogs take a bite for themselves? Sign up and put your name on the pages of KARDS history!

• Bring three decks from three different main nations (HQ)
  
• Win with two of your three decks to win the swiss round. NO BANS.
  
• Best of Three Conquest
  
• Day I: first rounds of Swiss play (amount of swiss rounds pending final entries)
  
• Day II: Second half of Swiss play (amount of swiss rounds pending final entries)
  
• Day III: Top 8 Single Elimination Bracket - Best of five with four decks.

IMPORTANT: You will NOT need to submit your decks for the Swiss rounds. Top 8 qualifiers at the end of swiss weekend will need to submit 4 deck lists.

Day I - First Half Swiss Rounds: 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST on August 29th
Day II - Second Half Swiss Rounds: 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST on August 30th
Day III - Top 8 Single Elimination Bracket : 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST on September 5th

The KARDS Open #2 will feature a 1000$ Prize pool as well as in game items and be completely open for everyone with free registration. Prizes will be distributed in the following way:

• 1st - $400 + 30 Packs
  
• 2nd - $250 + 30 Packs
  
• 3rd - $200 + 30 Packs
  
• 4th - $150 + 30 Packs
  
• 5th-8th - 30 Packs

🔥 All participants that sign up and play in the tournament will also receive 1 Allegiance Pack. Remember, the sign-up is free.

Get your decks at the ready!

The end of Season 16 in KARDS is filled with action! Climb the ranks, enjoy the finals of the first KARDS Open, and tune in for the next developer AMA.

Climb the ranks now and get bigger and better rewards. Extra rewards for those who have reached the Officer Club.



Use the remaining time to gain as many ranks as you can to get a big payout! You advance ranks by winning PVP matches. This is the perfect opportunity to get a nice boost.

Reward details

With the end of the season, you will receive rewards such as card packs and cards. After you have received the prizes and your season's rewards, your ranks will be lowered by one (except for Field Marshall, that rank will drop to Major 5 stars).

To qualify for the seasonal rewards, you need to have won at least 5 PVP matches during the season.

Check the rewards you will get currently and what you need to do to reach the next better rewards. Simply log into KARDS and go to PROFILE -> RANKS.

Special rewards

The best ten players of the season will qualify for the KARDS World Championship 2020 tournament. Read more about the KARDS World Championship 2020.

The best eight players of the Officer Club also qualify for the monthly Officer Club tournament with a $1000 cash prize.

The next season, Season 17, will start on August 1st at 00'00'01 UTC.

Developer AMA on July 31st

Another developer AMA is ahead this Friday, July 31st! Ask all the question and see what the KARDS developers have to say.

Due to the holiday season, this AMA will be held in a unique format. Don't miss it!

Dev AMA on Twitch at 16:00 UTC on July 31st

KARDS Open #1 - Finals

The first KARDS Open tournament goes into the final rounds this weekend! After a thrilling opening weekend with swiss-style elimination rounds, we are now heading into the elimination rounds between the remaining top eight players.

Check out the current standings and get ready for great fun, entertaining action, and potentially surprise decks which you can use in your own matches as well.

KARDS Open on Twitch at 14:45 UTC on August 2nd


Good luck, and have fun!

For direct feedback to the dev team please use KARDS Discord. You are also welcome to use the comment section below.

Stay up to date and follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest news.

Hello Kards community!

Now that the last Friday of the month is rapidly approaching again, it’s time to start collecting your questions for the next AMA session that will take place on the 31st of July at 16:00 UTC.



This time around both, Olikrummi, our host, and Gummi, our Creative Director, will be on summer vacation when the AMA is scheduled, but that won’t stop us from sitting down and spending some quality time with the community answering your questions. So wherever we might be in Iceland, we’ll be live on Twitch answering your questions on Friday the 31st of July.

You can submit your questions for the devs to answer during the AMA in the Steam comments or on the official AMA reddit thread here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kards/comments/hwg7a1/developer_ama_july_31st_1600gmt/

We appreciate all of your questions and comments for these AMA’s and thank you for helping us better develop and deliver KARDS for the future!

Tune in to the Developer AMA live at 16:00 UTC on the 31st of July at KARDS on Twitch, KARDS on Facebook, or right here on Steam!

Hello Kards community!

The second Officer Club Championship was held on the 18th of July where the top 8 players from the previous season battled it out for their share of the 1000$ prize pool.

The competition was fierce and we had some amazing games. In case you missed it, you can catch the VOD on our YouTube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nylsnPBp7CA

We heard a lot of you asking to see the decks and we are happy to share them with you. Please check out the full deck lists from all competitors in the tournament! Maybe you can get some inspiration from it?

Officer Club Championship July 2020 - Decklist

Enjoy!

Hello KARDS community!

We are super excited to share with you the next step in building our tournament ecosystem. The KARDS Open! For this first iteration we have partnered up 983 Media off the back of their successful Operation KARDS tournament to bring you the first ever cash prize open tournament for KARDS.

This is a part of our ongoing effort to make sure that there are meaningful outlets of competitions available to our players where they can test their mettle and reap the rewards of all those hours of theorycrafting and practicing.

Without further ado here are the details for the upcoming KARDS Open #1:

The KARDS Open #1 will be played over on Battlefy and you can find the registration page and all further information here:

KARDS Open signup

The tournament will be played over 2 weekends. The first weekend being the 25th and 26th of July and consisting of a Swiss Round and the finals weekend being the 1st and 2nd of August where players can stake their claim to the 1000$ prize pool!

All action from the top 8 will be broadcast live on the KARDS Twitch channel on August 2nd at 14:45 UTC. So make sure to tune in and see all the action from the first ever KARDS open.


The KARDS Open #1 will feature a 1000$ Prize pool and be completely open for everyone with free registration. All details on the breakdown of prizes and tournament format can be found below.


Prizes
1st: $500 USD
2nd: $300 USD
3rd: $200 USD


-Bring three decks from three different main nations (HQ)
-Ban one opponent deck, win with remaining two
-Best of Three Conquest
-Open deck lists
-Day I: first 4 rounds of Swiss play (amount of swiss rounds pending final entries)
-Day II: Second 4 rounds of Swiss play (amount of swiss rounds pending final entries)
-Day III: Top 8 Single Elimination Bracket

• The Encyclopedia and Help Bubble texts have been edited and added to.
  
• BLOCKADE now correctly worded.
  
• Tweaks and changes to text, including campaign text, card descriptions and historical text.

• Random card spawns in Battle now include Campaign cards.
  
• Excess damage from OT-34 and ISU-152 that was redirected to HQs by URA! Is no longer getting doubled.
  
• URA! effect now divides the damage correctly between attacked units and HQ. Multiple use of URA! during the turn has zero extra effect.
  
• Fixed rare cases where a destroyed Greyhound made affected units lose 2 attack instead of 1.
  
• B-29 SUPERFORTRESS no longer has incorrect operation cost when spawned by A FEW GOOD MEN.
  
• Changed label colors for some ToW cardbacks.
  
• Card reward pop-ups no longer show blurred images.

Hope you all enjoy our update. If you encounter any bugs, please report them in our KARDS Discord channel, thank you!

Hey Kards community!

With Season 15 coming to a close and the ladder resetting, it's time to get to know this month's Officer Club Championship participants playing for their share of the $1.000 prize pool. Read to the end for some other exciting news.



As always, the top 8 players on the ladder each season qualify for the Officer Club Championship, so let's congratulate the following players for their qualification:

1. Jking7
   
2. Darkness
   
3. MerliniX
   
4. RainZone77
   
5. shadowtp
   
6. AriBigBehn
   
7. Blue_Blast
   
8. Hubblebub
   
9. 0CanadaBear0

Eagle-eyed readers might notice that there are 9 names instead of 8, and that's because Hubblebub and 0CanadaBear0 ended up tied on the ladder, both having 2826 points. Therefore, they will play a best of 3 series under tournament rules to determine who will take the 8th slot in the tournament.

The 1000$ prize pool will be split in the following way:

• 1st place - 500$
  
• 2nd place - 300$
  
• 3rd place - 200$

This time around, players have to bring three decks from three different major nations, and once a player wins a match using a particular deck in a series, they can not bring that deck again until the following round. This means that to win the tournament, the winning player will have to win with each of their decks, making each player only as strong as their weakest deck, making for some exciting and entertaining matches!

The second-ever Officers Club Championship (OCC) will take place on the 18th of July at 15:00 - 22:00 UTC. Join us for all the action covered by community casters and experience a unique insight into the highest level of play in KARDS.

Catch all the action live on Twitch - KARDSccg, Facebook, Youtube, or here on the Steam store page.

Now, as an added bonus for those that read all the way to the bottom. Keep an eye out for an announcement for the first-ever KARDS Open that will offer any interested KARDS player a chance to compete in a KARDS tournament with a prize pool of $1.000!

Collect your well-deserved rewards from Season 15!

The season has ended on June 30th, 23-59-59 UTC, and now your rewards are waiting for your in the KARDS client.

Simply log into KARDS and collect your rewards - the rewards have been automatically delivered to your account.

Your ranks have been automatically lowered by one (except for Field Marshal which dropped to Major five stars) so that you can climb up the ranks again.


We also celebrate the winner of Season 15. After a strong battle between the top players in the Officer Club - the fight went across the release of the single-player campaign expansion Theaters of War - we had the winner.




Celebrate JKing7 as champion of season 15! After several top places in the previous seasons, JKing7 was able to beat the muli-season champion Darkness and so secured his first first place in the Officer Club.

Congratulations!

Congratulations also to following ten top ten players of Season 15 for automatically qualifying for the World Championship 2020 Tournament later this year (the other player in the top-ten are already qualified from the previous season):

1. shadowtp
   
2. Hubblebub
   
3. OCanadaBearO
   
4. osla biz bilirdik
   
5. pad
   
6. doge34_hs
   
7. Nemut
   
8. Pyroblast
   
9. El Chickenrice
   
10. toDIEisGAIN

Starting with Season 15, we also have an regular cash-prize tournament for the top-8 of the Officer Club. The following eight players have qualified for this tournament later this month (more details to follow):

1. JKing7
   
2. Darkness
   
3. MerliniX
   
4. Rainzone77
   
5. shadowtop
   
6. AriBigBehn
   
7. Blue_Blast
   
8. Hubblebub

Congratulations to all the winners and contributors. Enjoy your prizes and rewards from Season 15!

Large-scale reinforcements have arrived in KARDS with Theaters of War, adding massive single-player content.



The Theaters of War update brings five single-player campaigns to the game, each representing some of the most iconic battles of the era. The update includes 40 unique new cards that unlock as players complete the campaigns, delivering further depth and strategic gameplay.

Here are the highlights of Theaters of War:
✮ Five complete single-player campaigns, one for each major nation
✮ Each campaign has five historically inspired scenarios
✮ Three different strategies to play through each campaign
✮ Five new Headquarters and boards that can be used in PVP as well
✮ 105 cards including 10 Elite cards

For feedback, please use the Theaters of War feedback form. It takes less than 1 minute and helps a lot.

Let's dig into the details!

KARDS five main nations - Britain, Germany, Japan, USA, and the Soviet Union - each receive their own unique campaign inspired by some of the most iconic battles of the Second World War. You can use one of three strategies to complete each campaign (more about that below).


Following Operation Torch and the fall of Morocco and Algeria, the race was on for Tunisia.

Take charge of the British forces on their march to Tunis City to capture the capital and facilitate the surrender of all Axis forces in the area.

You have available the following strategies (more about strategies below).

• Travel by the coast and getting naval support
  
• Gain support from the Vichy French for numerical superiority
  
• Outflank the Axis with your 'Blade Force' and American allies

In this campaign, you take charge of the German Afrika Korps sent to Libya to stem the advance of the British. Take the fight to Egypt, securing Alexandria and the Suez Canal itself.

You have available the following strategies (more about strategies below).

• Rely on Rommel's tactical prowess to get the most out of the troops
  
• Secure the supply route and dominate in the long haul
  
• Call in the Italian forces close in hand for support

Imperial Japan is on the offensive as they invade the Philippines hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Successfully taking control of the Philippines secures a supply line from the Japanese home islands, provides a stepping stone for further conquests and deprives the US of an advance base in the region.

You have available the following strategies (more about strategies below).

• Focus on your jungle warfare experience
  
• Rely on your air superiority
  
• Go for the brute-force approach with battle-hardened units

The Guadalcanal campaign was the first major allied land offensive against the Empire of Japan. The island contains an airfield that can prove decisive in turning the allies from waging a defensive war into an offensive one.

You have available the following strategies (more about strategies below).

• Strengthen and rely on the core of the US marine force
  
• Focus on securing the Henderson Field for air support
  
• Rely on the US navy for support and keeping the Japanese at bay

Operation Barbarossa saw Germans advance far into the Soviet Union on all fronts. After Kiev, most of the trained Soviet reserves were depleted and the Germans are on Moscow's doorsteps.

Take charge of the Soviet defensive to halt the German advance to Moscow and take advantage of the winter to turn the tides of the invasion.

You have available the following strategies (more about strategies below).

• Retreat your elite units from the Far Eastern front for support
  
• Rely on the people of Moscow to dig entrenchments and anti-tank ditches into slowing down your enemy
  
• Call in the reserves and get as many able bodies on the field

Each campaign offers three different strategies (see above) to achieve operational success. You will receive different units and orders throughout the campaign, which can vastly change the approach to victory.

Each different strategy requires an entirely different approach and is inspired by historical events.

As you progress through the campaign, you will upgrade your units to better tackle what is to come and provide multiple different paths to success. The combination of different strategies and units to enhance results in fun and engaging replay value for each of the campaigns.

Theaters of War brings 40 new unique playable cards, 8 for each of the main nations for your collection. You earn the new cards as you complete each phase of the campaign.

As you progress, you unlock the complete set for each card (all 4 standard cards, all 3 limited or both special cards), getting 21 cards per nation or 105 for all 5 nations.

Have a look at our pre-release review of all cards in Theaters of War. The analysis includes some of the top players in KARDS and gives great insight.
https://youtu.be/AZRZA1mLlDo

Each campaign comes with a unique headquarter (HQ) that provides a new and unique board setting.

These HQ’s can then be used in other game modes where you invite your opponent to your board setting. Each campaign also comes with a unique card back for the nation, further allowing you to personalize your presence in the game.

If you are one of the few elite players finishing a campaign completing all secondary objectives (stars), you will get a special emote.

Theaters of War is available now in the KARDS shop (in-game). You can purchase the campaigns individually or as a bundle.

You can purchase the campaigns either with currency or with in-game gold.

The individual campaigns cost either $7.95 or 100 Gold.
The bundle of all five campaigns costs $29.95 and saves you up to 25%.

We are looking forward with great excitement to Theaters of War how you will successfully complete the various campaigns.

Your feedback is precious, and we would love to hear your opinion.

Please use the comments below or join our KARDS Discord server, thank you!