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Uncommon card · History
Carronade, an Uncommon card
A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron naval cannon. It was first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, and, all in all, counting all nations, was used from the last quarter of the 18th century to the mid-19th century.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 64,000
Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Carronade quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Carronade card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The first navy to use ______ was the Royal Navy.
Answer
carronades. The first navy to use carronades was the Royal Navy. From the Carronade article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Adolf Frederick of Sweden. Adolf Frederick of Sweden 110,000 · Karun Nair 86,000 · Carronade 64,000 · Andrés Pastrana Arango 50,000 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.
- The first navy to use carronades was the Royal Navy.
- When this new weapon proved its efficiency, other navies such as those of France and Spain adopted it progressively in the late 18th Century and onwards.
- The main function of the carronades was to serve as a powerful, short-range, anti-ship and anti-crew weapon.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Carronade article was read about 64,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Carronade
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, Carronade (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User Darkone on de.wikipedia, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
