Greetings, Commanders!
Homefront has landed, and once again the battlefield has shifted. We’ve loved watching you push into the new frontier - testing fresh synergies, uncovering clever combos, and assembling inventive new line-ups.
Overall, the expansion has deployed smoothly, with only a few outliers worth noting. DECOY TACTICS had to be pulled from duty temporarily, and 106TH INFANTRY REGIMENT marched onto the field a little too fiercely. Both issues were addressed in the patch released on November 29th.
As always, your feedback has been invaluable. Thank you for helping us refine and reinforce the front.
Draft Pool Changes
Back with Air Supremacy, we introduced a major shift to Draft mode: a separate, purpose-built Draft card pool, allowing us to fine-tune Draft balance independently from the main PvP environment. If you missed that intel drop, you can review the full dev blog here:
With this system, we established:
- Draft-only allowed cards - cards kept in Reserves for PvP, but specifically permitted in Draft.
- Draft-specific bans - cards active in the main card pool but barred from appearing in Draft.
With Homefront, we’re executing our next set of Draft card pool changes. This refresh reshuffles which cards are:
- Allowed exclusively in Draft, and
- Banned specifically from Draft, even if legal in other PvP modes.
Please note that, unless specifically mentioned in the lists below, all cards that have moved into the Reserve pool will no longer appear in Draft, and all cards returning from the Reserve pool to the active card pool will now appear in Draft.
The full list of cards available and banned in Draft mode (outside of the regular card pool) is accessible here:
Change List
Below is the full change list since the Air Supremacy mini-release.
Please note that several of the cards listed below - particularly in the “No Longer Removed from Draft” and “No Longer Available in Draft” sections - appear here due to changes in the Reserve pool. These cards no longer need to be included on the Draft-specific ban list or allowed list because their new status in or out of the Reserve pool already determines whether they appear in Draft.
As mentioned above:
- Cards in the Reserve pool will not appear in Draft by default.
- Cards in the active pool will appear in Draft unless explicitly banned.
Many of the changes you’ll see below are therefore housekeeping updates resulting from the recent Reserve pool rotation.
Removed from Draft Card Pool
- 506th AIRBORNE
- OVERWHELMING FORCE
- RATIONING
- F6F-5 HELLCAT
- LAYFORCE
- ROYAL ULSTER RIFLES
- 27. FUSILIER
- U-48
- ACE OF SPADES
- 106th INFANTRY REGIMENT
- LAST RITES
- WAY OF SUBJECTS
- PERSIAN CORRIDOR
- RM BERSAGLIERE
- IRON DIVISION
- 7TP
- DECOY TACTICS
No Longer Removed from Draft
- CODE OF BUSHIDO
- DIPLOMATIC ATTACHE
- IMPERIAL STRENGTH
- KAWANISHI H6K
- Ki-21 SALLY
- AGENCY AFRICA
- DELAYING TACTICS
- ENEMY CONTACT
- HMS TALBOT
- INFILTRATE
- QF 40mm Mk III
- FUROR
- YANK
- BLUE AND GRAY
- M4A2
- FIELD RECON
- FROZEN ASSETS
- COMPROMISE
- EASTERN FRONT BOUND
Added to Draft Card Pool
- 4th MARINES
- 164th INFANTRY REGIMENT
- AMERICA AT WAR
- FIREBOMB
- 5th PARACHUTE BRIGADE
- A34 COMET
- STUG IV
- BF 110 C ZERSTÖRER
- KING TIGER
- 51st RECON
- F1M2 PETE
- 60th CAVALRY REGIMENT
No Longer Available in Draft
- M3A3 HONEY
- 8th MARINES
- 25th INFANTRY REGIMENT
- JOINT OPERATION