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Amphibious warfare, an Uncommon card
Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Amphibious warfare quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Amphibious warfare card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Through history the ______ were conducted using ship's boats as the primary method of delivering troops to shore.
Answer
operations. Through history the operations were conducted using ship's boats as the primary method of delivering troops to shore. From the Amphibious warfare article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The term amphibious first emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the ____s with introduction of vehicles such as Vickers-Carden-Loyd Light Amphibious Tank or the Landing Vehicle Tracked.
Answer
1930s. The term amphibious first emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the 1930s with introduction of vehicles such as Vickers-Carden-Loyd Light Amphibious Tank or the Landing Vehicle Tracked. From the Amphibious warfare article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Death squad. Death squad 91 · Amphibious warfare 85 · Fortification 79 · Jack Reed 74 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Through history the operations were conducted using ship's boats as the primary method of delivering troops to shore.
- Since the Gallipoli Campaign, specialised watercraft were increasingly designed for landing troops, material, and vehicles, including by landing craft and for insertion of commandos, by fast patrol boats, zodiacs and from mini-submersibles.
- The term amphibious first emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the 1930s with introduction of vehicles such as Vickers-Carden-Loyd Light Amphibious Tank or the Landing Vehicle Tracked.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Amphibious warfare article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Amphibious warfare
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Amphibious warfare (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Malindine E G (Lt), War Office official photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
