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Stat wise everything seems like the document I wrote up. Isn't range and area of effect a bit redundant though? Unless we separate them because of some card specific effect thus the range of attack might be "six squares in front" but the area of effect for I don't know, -2 to all damage for infantry units is "three squares any direction".

In hindsight units should have class types like "support, medic, engineer" over semi faction types like imperialist, mercenary, comunist, etc.

Vehicles I only put marine, air, and ground type to keep simple and add that Magic: The Gathering type gameplay element they call "tribal" in that cards could target or be vulnerable too certain breed variants.

I tried to avoid making any card a pre-existing weapon or vehicle in real life warfare because a lot of them are patentend. For example The Desert Eagle. AK-47s are public domain. My knowledge of weapon's copyright is limited though, so I do not know to what extent we could get away with using common words and just figure as long as we avoid things like "Glock" we should be good.

So yeah, basically in my mind I was thinking:

Action cards. (No sub ones though we could incorporate some. "Economic" and "Political" come to mind.)

Land cards. (Again, no sub-cards. But factories, farms, banks, etc might be eligible.)

Unit cards.
Infantry:
Assault
Engineer
Medic
Support
Recon


Vehicles:
Ground
Air
Marine

Leaders: (Though I have not written up any yet.)
Generals
Priests
Revolutionaries
Administrative (Or "president" if you prefer.)


Sam's idea of incorporating hologram cards should be dually noted too. In most card games it's just some superficial rareity, but in a computerized one it could cause slight shifts in the card's normal stats. Not necessarily better or worse, just same card, slightly different numbers. Psychologically it presses a sense of rareity and surprise, and collectors will fawn over it. But that's completely up to you. Also instead of hologram it may be more in-game to call it "veteran cards" or something.

Can you give me more details on the card type you have.

 

Action card
Land card
Unit card