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Hello everyone, my name is Nilsor and welcome to my vault
Today on Fallout New Vegas 101
I’m going to explain to you how to play Caravan
Caravan is a very popular card game in the Wasteland because
it can be played with whatever cards you may find during your travels
and allows players to have different type of stategies
To start playing Caravan
you will need to obtain your starter deck by talking to Ringo at Goodsprings
or at the Crimson Caravan Company if he went there
The goal of the game is to build up to 3 caravans and to sold at least 2
A caravan is built by aligning cards
and is sold when its value is between 21 and 26
If your caravan is below you will need to add cards
and if its above you will need to remove some or to discard the entire caravan to rebuild it
Among your 3 caravans you must have at least 2 caravans that are sold
and that outweight the value of the opposing ones
For example
if you have two caravans at a value of 22 and 23
but your opponent has also two caravans of a value of 21 and 25
to win you will have to be the first to complete a third caravan
or you must find a way to raise your caravan of 23 to 26
or find a way to make your opponent discard his
Once you have find someone to play with
you will start by biding some money either in the form of caps, NCR dollars or Legion Coins
Then you will have to build your deck of card for this game
with a minimum of 30 cards by selecting those that will be included
and those that will be excluded
You can never have twice the same card if it’s coming from the same set
like The Tops set, the Gomorrah set or the Sierra Madre set
although you can have the same card if they are coming from two different sets
The interface is taking care of this rule before you can do your selection anyway
You can choose to build your deck manually or automatically
depending on if you already have a strategie in mind
The game starts with the first round
where you will put the first card for each of your 3 caravan
You can only place a non-faced card
After that at each turn you will be able to perfom one of this action
Play a card on one of your caravan or one of your opponent then draw a card
Discard a card then draw a card
Or discard an entire caravan
To build a caravan you will be placing cards one after another
When you play a second card on one of your caravan
you will determine its direction
It means that the rest of the caravan will be in ascending or descending order
For example if you have put a 6 and then an 8
your caravan will be ascending
your next card will have to be either a 9 or a 10
If you had put a 5 after the 6
your caravan would be descending, your next card will then have to be a 4, 3, 2 or an Ace
Suit changes when placing card of a different suit while respecting the direction of the caravan
When a new suit is started
the direction of the caravan will be determined by the second card of that suit that you will add
Two same value card
whether from the same or different suit
can’t be placed one after another
Value cards and Faced cards don’t have the same effects
Cards between 2 and 10 will add their value to the caravan
Ace adds 1 value
Faced cards are played upon a value card whether its one of your caravan or your opponent
Jack removes the card on which it has been played
Queen changes the suit of the card and reverse the direction
For example
playing a queen of spades on a 7 of shades will change its suit to spades
and will make the caravan descending from now on
You can place multiple queens on one card
King doubles the value of the card it’s placed on
multiple kings combine
The Joker
If Played on an ace
it removes all card on the table that share the same suit
except for the card it has been played on
If Played on a value card
it will remove all other card on the table that have the same value regardless of suit
except for the card it has been played on
You can place up to 3 faced cards on one value card
Personnaly
my favorite strategie consist of having quite a number of kings in my deck
so that I can overburden my opponent’s caravans and make him discard it totaly
Now we are going to continue on with the main quest and head to Novac
so clic the link to learn more
Thank you for watching, and see you later