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Limbers and caissons, an Uncommon card
A limber is a two-wheeled cart designed to support the trail of an artillery piece, or the stock of a field carriage such as a caisson or traveling forge, allowing it to be towed.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 29,000
Power 100 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Limbers and caissons quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Limbers and caissons card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A ______ is a two-wheeled cart designed to carry artillery ammunition, the British term is "ammunition wagon".
Answer
caisson. A caisson is a two-wheeled cart designed to carry artillery ammunition, the British term is "ammunition wagon". From the Limbers and caissons article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Roch Voisine. Roch Voisine 67 · Melvyn Ong 61 · Limbers and caissons 58 · George Tupou I 54 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.
- The trail is the hinder end of the stock of a gun-carriage, which rests or slides on the ground when the carriage is unlimbered.
- A caisson is a two-wheeled cart designed to carry artillery ammunition, the British term is "ammunition wagon".
- Caissons are also used to bear the casket of the deceased in some state and military funerals in certain Western cultures, including the United States.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Limbers and caissons article was read about 29,000 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 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Limbers and caissons
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, Limbers and caissons (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Witold Pikiel (1889-1943), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
