We are glad to announce World War II: TCG’s new expansion: DEFIANCE!
Defiance is our most ambitious expansion so far, with more than 100 new cards, hundreds of crafting options, massive changes on Historical Missions and much more. We have plans to launch this expansion in the first week of December.
Key Expansion Features
- 100+ New Cards to collect and tons of crafting options.
- Faction Leaders have arrived to quickly gain control of the battlefield. Change the outcome of the match by playing one of these powerful leaders.
- 3 New Historical Missions
- Operation Torch: Play with british troops against the germans.
- Battle of the Coral Sea: A maritime war in just one lane and 4 slots to place your cards.
- Battle of Corregidor: The new japanese tanks await your command.
- 1 New Raid: Participate in the Fall of the Philippines.
- Historical Mission Difficulty - Defiance: A new difficulty for experienced players, defeat your opponent in 3 rounds to get an epic card or better.
- Balance:
- Several Cards have been improved from previous editions.
- Reduced the cost and improved the rewards of Historical Missions
- Increased the amount of raid points that players can obtain and reduce the cost of some blueprints
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Cards
We have more than 100 new cards (with their respective crafted versions) and the new Leader Cards.
The last two expansions had a lack of infantry units (despite the fact that infantry decks are competitive) and we wanted to add more variety to these decks.
Another point that we wanted to change from a long time was the lack of tanks for the japanese faction, we added a few more so you have a bunch of new tanks to play with.
With a new expansion, we always try to bring new types of abilities such as targeting the support or attack lane. On this expansion we have a few of them.
- Objectives
- Targets the lowest Health/Attack Card.
- Targets the highest Health/Attack Card.
- Targets only Equipped Cards.
- Explosive Charges: Applies the damage at the start of the turn of the affected enemy.
- Counter Abilities: Destroys cards with specific abilities such as Deploy or Brutality.
Faction Leaders
Leaders are really powerful cards (you can consider them as overpowered cards) that have some drawbacks. The implementation of Leader Cards was something that we wanted to add to the game for a long time and we were waiting for an opportunity to introduce them in a meaningful way.
- Leaders are limited to 1 per deck.
- Requirement to Play: to play a Leader your deck must have only cards from one faction (the one matching the leader).
- Leaders have massive stats or powerful abilities compared to other cards.
- We’ve added 2 Leaders per faction/type (so there are currently 40 possible Leaders).
- We wanted to have a way to reward players who use a “thematic” faction deck.
- Cards only obtainable by crafting: you’re not limited to cards from chests to get the needed Leader for your faction.
- Multiple ways to get the materials to craft them.
Historical Missions
Historical Missions have received several changes and upgrades. The biggest changes are:
- Defiance Difficulty:
- A new difficulty available for Historical Missions. This new difficulty will grant an Epic or Legendary Card when completed.
- Rounds: 3.
- Cost: 150 golds.
- Rewards only given when completed (last round).
- You can obtain materials to craft Leader Cards.
- 3 New Historical Missions.
- Added some unique Historical Missions cards that can only be obtained while playing Defiance difficulty.
- Increased the rewards of Medium Difficulty.
- Changed the cost of all Historical Missions to FREE/100/150. (we have adjusted some of the gold rewards too),
- Adjusted the amount of platoon points:
- Easy: 25
- Medium: 200 (previously 150)
- Hard: 500 (previously 600)
- Defiance: 400
Raids & Raid Points
- Added a new Raid.
- Increased the amount of raid points that a player can obtain through Duties and Battle Pass.
- Two daily duties (play raids) now give raid coins.
- Blueprints costs:
- The last 3 expansions: 600 raid points. (Outbreak, Warmachine and Defiance)
- Other: 400 raid points. (Basic, Sealords and Stronghold)
- We’ll keep updating the prices when new expansions are launched.
Duties & Battle Pass
We have greatly improved the Battle Pass, now providing at least 1 Epic Elite Card (basic) and 1 Diamond Card (gold) of the newest Expansion (Defiance) per month.
We have added several duties linked to this expansion so players can obtain several Defiance Chests, Raid Points and materials for the new Leader Cards. Also we have added crafting duties with awesome rewards (Epic Elite Cards).
While all players will benefit with these changes, it will be more important for new players as they will get these crafted cards at the same pace that veterans players.
Achievements
We fixed the display issue with achievements where you couldn't see the progress of some achievements. Now you will see the progress on all achievements, time to complete all of them!
UI Changes
We want to update the battlefield screen for a long time, specifically the background. The current backgrounds have too much detail and don’t mix well with the cards. We are trying different approaches and we hope that you can give us feedback about our new UI changes.
We’re not implementing these changes right away, we want first to gather feedback from you and we may postpone some of the changes and publish them after the update.
We hope you like what we have planned so far and we’re awaiting your feedback, as always your opinion and ideas are key to the success of the game.
We’ll provide more information during these weeks (balance changes, craft card list, new abilities,...) and we hope everything goes fine and we can have a smooth launch.
As always be safe during these days and we’ll see you in the game!