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Uncommon card · History
Brian Horrocks, an Uncommon card
Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, was a British Army officer, chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 57,000
Power 179 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He also served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War, was taken prisoner twice, and competed in the modern pentathlon at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
- Later he was a television presenter, wrote books on military history, and was Black Rod in the House of Lords for 14 years.
- In 1940 Horrocks commanded a battalion during the Battle of France, the first time he served under Bernard Montgomery, the most prominent British commander of the war.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Brian Horrocks article was read about 57,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Brian Horrocks
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, Brian Horrocks (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Geoffrey Keating, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
