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Offline Golgotha

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Cards in wargames - a challenge
« on: March 03, 2021, 06:58:03 PM »

We see many wargames using cards - whether this is a standard card deck or one specific to the game - and this got me thinking of alternatives...

Why not use a Tarot deck? The challenge therefore is can anyone come up with an effective use of these for wargaming or even a set of rules using them.

The standard Tarot consists of the following:

"The Major Arcana (greater secrets), or trump cards, consists of 22 cards without suits:
The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, The World, and The Fool. Cards from The Magician to The World are numbered in Roman numerals from I to XXI, while The Fool is the only unnumbered card, sometimes placed at the beginning of the deck as 0, or at the end as XXII.
The Minor Arcana (lesser secrets) consists of 56 cards, divided into four suits of 14 cards each;
Ten numbered cards and four court cards. The court cards are the King, Queen, Knight and Page/Jack, in each of the four tarot suits. The traditional Italian tarot suits are swords, batons, coins and cups; in modern occult tarot decks, however, the batons suit is often called wands, rods or staves, while the coins suit is often called pentacles or disks." see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot

Look forward to seeing some ideas...

 

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