Homefront: Patch Notes
about 4 hours ago
Greetings, Commanders!
The Homefront Winter Expansion has now landed, bringing a major wave of new content and improvements to KARDS. Read on for everything included in this update.
Homefront Expansion
Homefront opens a bold new chapter in KARDS, delivering new strategic options and mechanics for every nation.
87 new cards: Reinforcements have arrived. Each major nation receives 15 new cards, while minor nations gain 3 each, opening new lines of attack, defense, and deck-building depth.
Bond Mechanic: Playing a Bond card deals Morale Damage to your HQ - unless you controlled a unit of the same nation at the start of your turn. Bond rewards unified forces and introduces new risk-reward decisions across multiple nations.
Combat Keywords: A newly defined subset of core keywords, Ambush, Blitz, Fury, Guard, Heavy Armor, Shock, Smokescreen, now shapes how units fight, defend, and survive. Cards can reference these traits directly, enabling cleaner interactions and powerful new synergies.
Reworked French Resistance: The Resistance returns from the Reserves with a complete redesign and three new additions. RESISTANCE cards are now added to the enemy’s deck, triggering automatically when drawn for faster, more dynamic disruption.
This expansion shakes up the battlefield with new tools, tactics, and nation-defining mechanics. For full intel, see:
Reserve Rotation
Alongside Homefront, a new Reserve rotation is now active:
24 cards have returned to active duty, including 4 reworked French Resistance cards
113 cards have been rotated into the Reserves.
See the full list of card changes here:
Card Balance Update
Nerfs
BUFFS
KM TIRPITZ
108. PANZERGRENADIER
175th INFANTRY REGIMENT
Buffs
CREEPING BARRAGE
FRONTIER FORCE
KV-1 1939
SEABORNE INVASION
Bug Fixes
The Homefront update also deploys a series of battlefield fixes:
[Battle] Fixed an issue where unit deployment countermeasures (such as KM PRINZ EUGEN and NIGHT HUNTERS) could incorrectly trigger from PBY Catalina’s start of turn ability.
[Battle] When a unit with the Fight ability (e.g. HENSCHEL HS 129) was deployed and used its ability to Fight an enemy CHURCHILL Mk III AVRE, the CHURCHILL briefly visually moved to the friendly support line before moving back to its intended place. Fixed.
[Battle] When a card with a “Choose a card in hand” ability was played (e.g. 175th INFANTRY REGIMENT), if the turn was ended after selecting a card in hand but before clicking the “Confirm” button, the “Confirm” button stayed on the screen. Fixed.
[Battle] When the GORDON HIGHLANDERS was played and targeted an order (e.g. HMS FORMIDABLE) that was placed at the top of the deck, if the GORDON HIGHLANDERS was retreated (e.g. by ZAMOSC UPRISING) and then played again, the cost of the order (HMS FORMIDABLE) was reset to its default value. Fixed.
[Tournaments] In some cases, a player could enter a new tournament while already participating in a tournament. Fixed.
[Tournaments] The “The tournament will start when 8 players have joined” tooltip remained on the tournament screen after the first games were completed, while waiting for other players to finish the match. Fixed.
[UI] The last played deck had its position reset to a previous position instead of appearing at the top of the deck list. Fixed.
[UI] On iOS devices, after opening the “Patch Notes” button, the screen was not correctly closed after tapping buttons in the header. Fixed.
[UI] In some cases, more Crate points appeared to accrue visually than was intended, which was only resolved through a game restart. Fixed.
[UI] In the profile menu, the “Highest Officer Club Position” was not correctly updated at the start of the new season. Fixed.
[UI] The wrong Ranked card back was shown in the Customize menu after receiving the new Ranked card back at the start of the season. Fixed.
General Improvements
This patch also includes:
Updated audio for Strafe attack orders
Improved board item rendering on Android Low and Medium settings
In addition to these, several additional behind-the-scenes improvements have been made to improve the battlefields of KARDS for everyone.
That’s all for now. See you on the battlefield, Commanders!
