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Airborne forces, an Uncommon card
Airborne forces are ground combat units carried by aircraft and airdropped into battle zones, typically by parachute drop.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 64
- Power
- 146
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 97,000
Ranked #2,014 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Airborne forces quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Airborne forces card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Parachute-qualified infantry and support personnel serving in airborne units are also known as ______.
Answer
paratroopers. Parachute-qualified infantry and support personnel serving in airborne units are also known as paratroopers. From the Airborne forces article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Airborne forces. Airborne forces 82 · LGM-35 Sentinel 76 · Khorasan 73 · Battle of Bouvines 70 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
LGM-35 Sentinel. LGM-35 Sentinel 210,000 · Khorasan 160,000 · Airborne forces 97,000 · Battle of Bouvines 64,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Parachute-qualified infantry and support personnel serving in airborne units are also known as paratroopers.
- The main advantage of airborne forces is their ability to be deployed into combat zones without a land passage, as long as the airspace is accessible.
- Formations of airborne forces are limited only by the number and size of their transport aircraft, a sizeable force can appear "out of the sky" behind enemy lines in merely hours if not minutes, an action known as vertical envelopment.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Airborne forces article was read about 97,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 64: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Airborne forces
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Airborne forces (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 720th Special Tactics Group out of Hurlburt Field, Fla., ju, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
