![]() The Technical Readout portion of the book includes a variety of all-new designs-many of which have variants that date back to the time of the Star League-as well as numerous custom variants and configurations of canon 'Mech types. This combination Technical Readout & Sourcebook includes detailed background of the units involved, as well as the Dreadnought BattleCorps' parent corporation, Dreadnought Interstellar Industries, which establishes itself over a thousand years of history. Although it includes many other events, the book is written primarily as a report on an extensive military operation which was undertaken during the Word of Blake's Jihad War by what is known as the Lancaster Coalition-a combined arms force consisting of the Dreadnought BattleCorps 1st Regimental Combat Team, the Ronin Free Companies Mercenaries, and the Blackwood Templars Mercenaries. This project was led by Devin Ramsey, who created most of it, but it also prominently includes characters and mercenary units created by Donald Butler and Zach Schaffer. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Battletech: Operation Lancaster (abbreviated BT:OPL or OpLan), is a large fan Sourcebook/Technical Readout. ![]() 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. ![]()
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