KARDS - The WWII Card Game News

Season 14 in KARDS ends on May 31st (at 23'59'59 UTC). The more ranks you have gained, the bigger and better the reward. 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 gain ranks by winning PVP matches. This is the perfect opportunity to get a nice boost.

[h2]Current leaderboard[/h2]
Currently, Blue_Blast is leading the Officer Club with a small lead of 18 points ahead of AriBigBehn.

There are several challengers closely behind, but do they have enough time left to catch up to those two?


[h2]Reward details[/h2]
With the end of the season, you will receive rewards such as card packs and cards. After you have received the rewards and at the start of your next season, 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.

The best player of the season will get a special, physical reward including a KARDS seasonal certificate (delayed due to the current pandemic situation though).


[h2]Special rewards[/h2]
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 recently announced monthly Officer Club tournament with a $1000 cash prize.

The next season, Season 15, will start on June 1st at 00'00'01 UTC.

Good luck and have fun!

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Hey Kards community!

My name is Ólafur Hrafn Steinarsson and I just recently joined the 1939 Games team as the Director of Esports and Influencers. I am super excited to work with you, the members of the community, on building a truly special competitive and content ecosystem that can entertain all of us for hours on end!



We are proud to announce the first step in building the competitive ecosystem around KARDS with a monthly tournament for the top 8 players in the Officer’s Club, pitting the best of the best against each other in a head to head tournament to find out who reigns supreme at the end of the season. Oh and I almost forgot to mention they’ll also be competing for their share of a $1000 cash prize pool!

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

It’s important to note that this is where we are starting, not ending. While we are designing and building our technical solutions for mass competition, set to come out this August, we’ll be focusing on smaller tournaments with top ranked players and high production value, as well as supporting community run tournaments for everyone else (more on that later)

The first ever Officers Club Championship (OCC) will take place on the 17th of June at 15:00 - 22:00 GMT. Join us for all the action covered by community casters and experience a unique insight into the highest level of play in KARDS.

With only a few days left of the season, these are the current top 8 that will qualify for the tournament (this is, of course, subject to change as the season ends on May 31st at 24-59-59 UTC):

Blue_Blast
lxycaesar
AriBigBehn
MerliniX
reafer
Jking7
Scientiavore
Darkness

Tune in live on KARDS Twitch, KARDS Facebook or on our store page here on Steam.

With the KARDS release on June 3rd, we will introduce the often-requested and anticipated feature to import decks into the KARDS client with a single action.



It was already possible to export decks, and the community used it to share decks (e.g. on PlayKARDS). With this new “import deck” feature, you can also easily import decks now!

[h2]Overview[/h2]
Import decks is a new feature that allows players to share their decks with just two clicks. Copy an existing deck into a text code and share it with your fellow players who then can import code and create a copy of this deck for themselves.

[h2]How deck import works[/h2]
The “COPY DECK” buttons that are already in the game and copied a human-readable text with the contents of the deck now also contain a new import code.

You will now be able to either copy all of the text that is copied to the clipboard or only the last line of text that is the import code and share that text with other players. This allows your fellow KARDS players to try out your deck without the hassle of having to go over each card and to manually create the deck piece by piece.

To import the deck, it is enough to have the code copied to your clipboard and then click the “NEW DECK” button. After clicking the button, you will get a pop-up window asking if you would like to import the deck you have copied. If you agree to import the deck, a new deck is created for you which contains exactly the cards of the imported deck.

[h3]Example[/h3]


When this button is clicked, this text will be copied to the clipboard (only the last line is necessary for importing):
[noparse]
Imported Soviet Deck
Major power: Soviet
Ally: Japan
HQ: STALINGRAD

Soviet:
1x (1K) FINAL PUSH
1x (1K) RESERVES
4x (1K) 321st RIFLE REGIMENT
2x (1K) 37 mm ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN
4x (1K) 89th INFANTRY REGIMENT
1x (2K) KATYUSHA
1x (2K) 13th RIFLE REGIMENT
2x (2K) T-70
1x (3K) SU-76M
1x (3K) THE HAMMER
1x (3K) 42nd RIFLES
1x (3K) FROM THE PEOPLE
1x (3K) 84th INFANTRY REGIMENT
1x (4K) LA-5
1x (4K) BARRAGE
1x (4K) RED OCTOBER
2x (4K) ARCTIC CONVOY
2x (7K) 756th REGIMENT
1x (7K) ISU-152

Japan:
2x (1K) HIMEJI REGIMENT
1x (3K) AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT
2x (3K) BURNING SUN
2x (3K) TYPE 97 Chi-Ha
1x (4K) Ki-44 TOJO
2x (4K) Ki-43 HAYABUSA

IMPORT CODE:
%%43|7O84998E9m888L7P8V5u9d7G6W8395;6R9e9t5y7o7E6Q8R;;8H8X
[/noparse]

In case you do not own all cards from the imported deck, the missing cards are grayed out, and the rarity icon underneath the card shows how many of these cards you are missing. You can click on that card to create the missing card(s); you can also remove the card from the deck and replace it with something else.

[h3]Example [/h3]
This deck included 2x 756th REGIMENT, but the player importing owns only one.



This feature can help everyone in many ways. Share your deck with your friends after a heated battle, use it as part of ongoing discussions or during some of the fantastic video content, or create great tools as 3d party developers (big shout-out to PlayKARDS for their excellent website).


Please let us know what you think about this feature! We are looking forward to your feedback in the comments below,
on Discord, or on social media. Which decks do you have to share?


[h2]Extra: Technical details for 3rd party developers[/h2]

This section is more of a technical nature and you can safely skip it if you just want to use this feature in KARDS.

The deck code now always starts with “%%” and is followed by two decimal numbers, the first one representing the main faction and second the allied faction (numbers for nations are listed below). After the faction numbers comes a vertical bar character and from there only the cards from the deck separated by a semicolon.

All cards use an ID of 2 characters and the semicolons separate cards with different counts in the code. You can find the card IDs in the card export. Note that card IDs are case sensitive.

After the “|” character and before the first semicolon, you will see a sequence of all card IDs that have the count of one, then after the second semicolon and before the third, all card IDs with count 2 and so on. No semicolon is added after the sequence of cards with count 4, so there will be a total of 3 semicolons in the code.

Numbers for each nation:
1 = Germany, 2 = Britain, 3 = Japan, 4 = Soviet, 5 = USA, 6 = France, 7 = Italy

Example of deck code:
[noparse]%%53|5ucCbn;5W6LctbjdicAbO;6Q7qcEd7ddd4;cy[/noparse]

In the example above we can see the that “53” is between the “%%” and the “|” and from that we can tell that we have a deck that has the USA as the main nation (from the 5) and Japan is the ally nation (from the 3).

Then from the right of | and before the first semicolon we have “5ucCbn”. That means we have 1 of each card with IDs “5u”, “cC” and “bn”. Then we have 2 of each card with IDs “5W”, “6L”, “ct” and so on, 3 of each card with IDs “6Q”, “7q” and so on and then lastly we have 4 cards with ID “cy”.

Dear KARDS players, friends, and WWII enthusiasts,

It is with great pleasure and excitement that we present the freshly updated KARDS roadmap. The roadmap is a regularly updated, high-level overview of the milestones and important events for KARDS. Keep in mind that this is a living document and that the events further in the future will receive more info as time passes by.

Without further ado, let’s have a look at what we can expect in the coming months!



Let’s go briefly over each item; more details will follow with separate blogs closer to the actual release dates.

[h2]June[/h2]
[h3]D-Day community event[/h3] Our first KARDS event with community-wide challenges! We are super excited about this event, which will span over several days. Relive the historic D-Day events with challenging (and rewarding) community-wide objectives and rewards.

[h3]Campaign Release (June 30th)[/h3] The long-awaited single-player campaign mode! Play through historical events, enjoy new cards, and face new challenges! Campaigns are an ongoing commitment;
we will add more content over time. The first five campaigns will arrive in late June.

[h2]August[/h2]
[h3]Mac client Release[/h3] Often requested and anticipated by many. The Mac version of KARDS will arrive in August!

[h3]Tournament Mode[/h3] After the highly successful World Championship last year, we open up tournaments to a broader audience. This is a great step forward towards a more competitive esports scene! We are thrilled to improve the tournament infrastructure to better support official, sponsored, and community-organized tournaments. Keep an eye out for more info soon!

[h2]Q4[/h2]
[h3]Squads[/h3] Support for team play! Band together and join your favorite squadron. This community-focused feature is exciting in itself; it also unlocks a whole new world such as team tournaments. Stay tuned for further details!

[h3]Winter expansion[/h3] This expansion is one of the two highlights this winter. Similar to our Allegiance expansion previous winter, expect to see new cards, game mechanics and nations!

[h3]World Championship Qualifier and Finals[/h3] The second highlight this winter next to the expansion is the KARDS World Championship! Similar to the previous World Championship, we will have qualifiers and then the actual tournament with a grand final. The qualification period has already started, check out the details!

[h2]2021[/h2]
[h3]Mobile version[/h3]
Highly anticipated, the mobile version for Android and iOS devices allows you to connect and play anywhere you want. Of course, you keep all your cards and your collection when using the mobile client - you have the full multi-platform experience! Initially scheduled for Q2 2020, we have moved the release of the mobile version to early 2021 as we want to have more time to develop and deliver a true triple-AAA experience on your mobile device. We don’t want to compromise quality for a rushed delivery that doesn’t pay justice to your (and our) expectations. We are still committed and very excited about the mobile version!


The roadmap is painted in broad strokes and shows only the tip of what we have planned. There are many more small features and improvements which will come along the road.

As you can see, the second half of 2020 is packed with KARDS excitement. We are kicking off the exciting period with the D-Day event in early June already.


The whole team is thrilled for the future and would love to hear your feedback! Join our first KARDS AMA on May 29th at 15:00 UTC and ask all the questions.

Over the next few days we will be airing the last stage of the 2019 KARDS World Championship again for those that weren’t a part of our amazing community in 2019. The World Championship is a multi stage tournament aimed at discovering the best KARDS players in the world. Watch as the top 4 KARDS players in 2019 battle it out for the first ever world championship.



Fenrir (China), Drogear (Sweden), Gearbot (Sweden) and GKZhukov (UK) display their immense skill and deck building prowess in high stakes KARDS action that gives an insight into the deck building and thought processes of the world’s best players. If you are new to KARDS and are looking to improve, make sure you tune in and learn from the best.

Tune in between the 22nd and 24th of May at 17:00 UTC for the Semi Finals and at 20:00 GMT for the Grand finals.

Note, that the game has changed significantly since the 2019 World Championship but the principles the players follow in building their decks still remain.

If you are interested in becoming the next KARDS World Champion, check out the 2020 KARDS World Championship announcement.