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Uncommon card · History
Free company, an Uncommon card
A free company was an army of mercenaries between the 12th and 14th centuries recruited by private employers during wars.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 26
- Power
- 84
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 44,000
Power 84 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Free company quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Free company card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
8th Parliament of South Australia. 8th Parliament of South Australia 62 · Free company 58 · Pradyut Bordoloi 53 · Rheinfels Castle 50 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Pradyut Bordoloi. Pradyut Bordoloi 85,000 · Kanwal Sibal 66,000 · Free company 44,000 · 8th Parliament of South Australia 130 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.
- They acted independently of any government, and were thus "free".
- They regularly made a living by plunder when they were not employed, in France they were called routiers and écorcheurs and operated outside the highly structured law of arms.
- The term "free company" is most often applied to those companies of soldiers which formed after the Peace of Brétigny during the Hundred Years' War and were active mainly in France, but it has been applied to other companies, such as the Catalan Company and companies that operated elsewhere, such as in Italy and the Holy Roman Empire.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Free company article was read about 44,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 26: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Free company
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Free company (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jean Froissart, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
