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Alder's Blood is a tactical-strategy with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering and management, exploration and rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.


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▏ God is dead, and it was us - who killed him.
Without God - the world became twisted and has fallen into chaos. Malevolent essense bleeding from his dead carcass, gives birth to inhuman abominations that roam the land - hunting and devouring anything human.〞



▏ But the God's death has also sprouted new kind of life: The Hunters.
They look like humans, but they are not. They are so much less, and so much more. The meaning of their life is to vanquish the ever growing Darkness and to protect humanity - at all cost.

▏ Each clan of Hunters has their Chief. You play as one of them. As the Chief - you manage your clan's camping, shifts, equipment, resources, crafting, trading, travels and most important - the Hunt.



▏ Hunts are main source of field experience for Hunters under your lead, and reward for a successful Hunt - your funding. Extremely difficult and dangerous, as the spawns of Darkness...

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D.O.W. Steel Beasts Sunday Mission 16/08/20 @ GMT18:00


This scenario is a simulation and does not have any political message.



Cavalry Troop Reconaissance by ben


1) SITUATION:

a) Enemy:

- An BMP2 Company reinforced with Leopard 2 tanks is reported to be deployed in the vicinity of the town of Wietzendorf as marked on map.

- The enemy company is expected to be preparing a hasty defense.

- We expect contact with enamy forward recon elements imminently.


b) Own:

Our Squadron is tasked with verifying the location and composition of Enemy forces in the area, and confirming the usability of AA1 and AA2 for follow on forces.

You must ocupy OBJ EAST and OBJ WEST with your forces, and defeat any Enemy forces in the OBJs.


Forces at your disposal are:

- Platoon of 4 M1A2(SEP) tanks.

- Platoon of 6 M3A2(ODS) scouts.


- If you suffer losses, the other Tanks and Bradleys of the troop may be used (via triggers).


2) MISSION:

- Infiltrate into OBJ EAST and OBJ WEST.

- Gain force superiority in OBJ East and OBJ WEST.


Secondary Objectives:

- Defeat any Enemy recon elements encountered.

- Locate enemy BMP company.

- Hit enemy BMP company with MLRS Strike.


3) EXECUTION:

- At...

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Command ships, submarines and aircraft in the South Pacific during WWII.


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War on the Sea




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1942: The world is at war
The Japanese Empire expands throughout the Pacific where Allied forces attempt to halt its spread. A desperate struggle for control of the Solomon Islands is now underway.

How will you protect your transports as they deliver troops and supplies in the South Pacific? Will you deploy precious aircraft carriers to provide air cover? Do you screen the area with submarines? Or attempt to lure the enemy navy into a decisive surface engagement?


Major Features:

• Real time naval combat
• Theatrical external-view game play
• Play as Allied Forces or Imperial Japan
• Over 50 classes of playable ships
• Dynamic campaign
• Tactical control of aircraft (not a flight simulator)
• Fight fires, counter flood compartments and repair ships
• Sink ships using realistic buoyancy physics
• Historical missions based on actual naval engagements











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Pixel inventor Russell Kirsch dies aged 91
Friday 14 August 2020


Russell Kirsch Credit: AP/Press Association Images

Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel and scanning the world's first digital photograph, has died aged 91.

Pixels, the digital dots used to display photos, video and more on phone and computer screens, were not an obvious innovation in 1957, when Kirsch created a small, 2-by-2-inch black-and-white digital image of his son, Walden, as an infant.

That was among the first images ever scanned into a computer, using a device created by his research team at the US National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institutes of Science and Technology).

This work "laid the foundations for satellite imagery, CT scans, virtual reality and Facebook," said a 2010 Science News article about Kirsch.


Russell Kirsch holding the image of his son, Walden, that was scanned into the world's first digital scanner in 1957 Credit: Jamie Francis/The Oregonian via AP, File

That first square image, that article said, measured a mere 176 pixels on a side - just shy of 31,000 pixels in total.

Today, the digital camera on the iPhone 11 can capture roughly 12 million pixels per...

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