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Uncommon card · History
Enfilade and defilade, an Uncommon card
Enfilade and defilade are concepts in military tactics used to describe a military formation's exposure to enemy fire.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 90
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 90 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Enfilade and defilade quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Enfilade and defilade card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A ______ or position is "in enfilade" if weapon fire can be directed along its longest axis.
Answer
formation. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapon fire can be directed along its longest axis. From the Enfilade and defilade article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
1994 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election. 1994 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election 65 · 1950 Salford City Council election 62 · Enfilade and defilade 55 · Walter D. Guilbert 50 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Enfilade and defilade. Enfilade and defilade 120,000 · Jeffrey Meldrum 62,000 · Walter D. Guilbert 210 · 1950 Salford City Council election 140 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.
- A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapon fire can be directed along its longest axis.
- A unit or position is "in defilade" if it uses natural or artificial obstacles to shield or conceal it from enfilade and hostile fire.
- The strategies, named by the English during the Hundred Years' War, use the French enfiler and défiler spoken by English nobility of the time.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Enfilade and defilade article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Enfilade and defilade
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, Enfilade and defilade (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MTWEmperor, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
