4/24/2023 0 Comments Long road home![]() The Long Road Home Actors Talk Their Real-Life Counterpartsīased on ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz’s 2008 bestseller, National Geographic’s The Long Road Home mines the human impact of war via a cadre of American soldiers, their Iraqi interpreter and their terrified families awaiting news during 2004’s “ Black Sunday” ambush on a newly arrived 1st Cavalry Division platoon in Sadr City, Baghdad. The Long Road Home - Michael Kelly and General Gary Volesky on the set of the National Geographic event series Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window).Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window).Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. ![]() The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. If you eventually guide your convoy to the end, you win. Ultimately it’s a marathon, not a race, but you can choose how long the marathon will last. You will need to manage essential fuel, ammo, food and medical supplies as you move your convoy along the road, while stopping at locations to resupply, recover powerful relics, rescue survivors and clear obstacles. Should your survivors be taken out of action or die you’ll have to draw on reserves left in your convoy or search for stranded survivors along the way. You’ll be facing off against different enemy types which escalate in numbers as you play. ![]() You will have to choose which missions you avoid and which ones you push hard and take risks on. The core experience centres around procedurally generated missions where the enemies can come back. There are a few steps you need to complete before you can hit the tabletop and start fighting for your life, and will continue to keep track of an entire convoy of supplies, gear and people as you play from one chapter to the next. Long Road Home is played as a ‘campaign’ – a string of connected adventures and events where every decision has an effect on the next. You will be in control of a convoy of hopeful survivors in a vaguely post-apocalyptic world, guiding them on a perilous journey in search of home. Long Road Home is a tabletop adventure game designed to be played with an eclectic collection of miniatures along with some polyhedral dice, a tape measure, a few tokens, terrain, some paper and a pen/pencil.
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