Caravan cards

[Hawk Man]

What are the best caravan cards in Fallout New Vegas?

[DrFeelWorse]

Do you mean best as in the rare card design itself or cards to actually build a deck off of?

If the former, the best deck has different strategies- but one of the best and easiest is by far compiling a deck of all 6's, 10's, Kings and Jacks. When you first start, lay down as many of the tens you have, next turn, double them with the Kings, and throw down a few 6's. Using the Jacks correctly, you can always keep your opponent down by removing all of their cards when they reach 21-26- however, many caravan players range in difficulty, and will also throw a ton of jacks, queens, or kings at you put you at a disadvantage- so these strategies all depend on who you are playing against. This strategy of 6/10/K/J is recommended I supposed for easy/normal opponents when betting low if you are looking for wins. If you use this strategy against higher opponents, you will have to use a lot of jacks until they possibly run out of cards and keep your caravans higher than theirs between the 21-26 range.

Hope this helped in some way. If not, and as far as rare cards, I believe I have bought and/or found most of them- and honestly it seems that the rarest of the cards (through my play throughs on console and now PC) are definately Jokers.

[Hawk Man]

Originally posted by DrFeelWorse:

Do you mean best as in the rare card design itself or cards to actually build a deck off of?

If the former, the best deck has different strategies- but one of the best and easiest is by far compiling a deck of all 6's, 10's, Kings and Jacks. When you first start, lay down as many of the tens you have, next turn, double them with the Kings, and throw down a few 6's. Using the Jacks correctly, you can always keep your opponent down by removing all of their cards when they reach 21-26- however, many caravan players range in difficulty, and will also throw a ton of jacks, queens, or kings at you put you at a disadvantage- so these strategies all depend on who you are playing against. This strategy of 6/10/K/J is recommended I supposed for easy/normal opponents when betting low if you are looking for wins. If you use this strategy against higher opponents, you will have to use a lot of jacks until they possibly run out of cards and keep your caravans higher than theirs between the 21-26 range.

Hope this helped in some way. If not, and as far as rare cards, I believe I have bought and/or found most of them- and honestly it seems that the rarest of the cards (through my play throughs on console and now PC) are definately Jokers.

Thank you! I put in over 80 hours on Fallout New Vegas and rarely touch the Caravan card game.

[DrFeelWorse]

Np. I play it a lot just because it is so different than other card based games- and actually takes a bit of strategy at times to beat an opponent, however it can be really slow at times. Make sure to buy all the cards you can find from vendors too. Glad I could help. :D

[talgaby]

There are a few strategies. Almost all of them use lots of Jacks and Kings, but numberic cards may vary. I used to play the 8-9-10 game (10-8K, 9K-8, 8-10-8, 9-8-9), but later switched to the 7-8-9-10 strategy, where you have twice as many 9s and 8s as 7s and 10s.