Introduction to CardFight Vanguard!!

CF Vanguard created by Akira Itō, Satoshi Nakamura and Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani. The animation of the series was made by TMS Entertainment. While the trading card game started to be released by Bushiroad in japan from February 25, 2011, Singapore on May 5, 2011 and internationally on May 12, 2011. Anime started to be worked on during July 2010 with music composed by Takayuki Negishi and Mari Tominaga was providing all the character designs.

Overall Details of CardFight!!Vanguard is here 
For more information and details you can find the list of characters of the anime series here
For the list of episodes you can go here
 
Trading Card Game introduction

Gameplay & clan introduction
The basic function of the card game is to represent spirits of clan fighters from the planet Cray as explained and showed in the Anime. Then the cards in players' decks which are called "Units" which represent characters from Cray that players can "Call" to the field to fight for them. Then all that the players have to do is  do and repeat calling, attacking, and defending with units, till one player reaches six damage, or there are no more cards in his or her deck, that player then loses the game. Each unit has a Name, Clan, Power Level, Shield Value, Critical Value, one or more Skills, and "Grade", which ranges from 0 to 3 (one clan has one grade 4).
For list of clans available so far in vanguard you can go here

For beginners who have never played Vanguard before they can go check the many rules of the game in the following links


Standard Fight Duels: in this link will help explain the overall game flow of vanguard that is used both on the anime and in the trading card game/simulator. The link is here
Card mechanics: will help you understand the way the game works and what are the many various ways the cards are used and their functions. The link can be found here
Trigger: A very important part of the vanguard game and can determine your overall game plan. The link to understanding the many types of triggers and how they work can be found here
Banned/restricted cards: Each player before building their deck should check what cards are banned or restricted by the official game so that they are prepare to change or remove cards that can’t be used or limited down. The List of banned/restricted cards can be found here
P.S: if you are a more visual learner you might want to try This it is step by step on how a game of vanguard is played from the start to end.

Quick Start Guide

Quick Start PDF 1
Quick Start Guide PDF 2

Introduction to Vanguard Area
Official Simulator site:  Cardfight Site 
Tip: the website is on Russian if you use Google chrome you can translate the website to English and be able to navigate much better
Created by: Russian Developers
Direct link to simulator:  Direct Download Link
 
The Vanguard Area is a simulator used to play CF Vanguard against other players online, the simulator also features a deck editor for making and editing your vanguard deck and viewing the many different types of clans that are available for you to test and use. The simulator uses the deck load to allow the player to pick what deck to use on CF and to edit if they go to the deck editor. The load replay option is also available to be used for does wanting to re-watch their CF that they have saved. Test option allows you to try out the game without playing against other players. The language of the client is by default in English there is no need to press that option that has English if pressed it will switch the simulator to Russian. Finally the Connect option is where after picking a character you can go around the areas and Cardfight other players who are around.
 
Screen shots of the Simulator