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We had an incident this morning of accounts being successfully created, validated, then used to post 50ish garbage posts about airlines. Those accounts have been marked as spammers and IP addressed blocked. The captcha mechanism for the forum has been changed and hopefully won't make your lives more miserable. What will be miserable is that we have re-enabled moderation of all posts. As a result, your posts will not be immediately available for others to read. Those of us caring for the site are hobbyists will real jobs so there could be a delay in approving posts of a day or more but we expect it will be much less. Hopefully we'll be able to go back to the free…

HCDB-060212 Aircraft: BO-105CB - INTL BO-105P PAH-1 - Germany F-15A/B Baz - Israel F-15C/D Akef - Israel F-15C/D Eagle - Saudi Arabia F-15J Eagle Plus - Japan F-15C Eagle Blk 39 - USA F-15C Golden Eagle - USA HKP-9A (BO-105CB) - Sweden KE-3A - Saudi Arabia RE-3A/B - Saudi Arabia Su-17M-2 Fitter D - Russia Su-22M4 Fitter K - Poland Su-27SM Flanker - Russia Y-8J AEW - China Y-8(DZ) - China Installations: Generic Port Facility - INTL Kadena AB - USA Lielvarde - Latvia Siauliai - Lithuania Tallinn - Estonia Ships/Mobile Land Units: FREMM (ASW) FFG - France FREMM (ATV) FFG - France Kojoonbong LST - South Korea Mackinaw WMEC - USA …

Tonight I updated the forum software and the Downloads module. Now we'll finally get to work on skinning the board.

Interested in a free book? We're looking for a few good men to help out around here and we're willing to offer some small tokens of appreciation in return. More specifically, we're looking for folks to: * write documentation for HCE, something that has been sorely needed for a while now * create good issue reports and follow them through resolution (bug testing/smashing) * write and share new scenarios, especially ones that exploit the newer battlesets * create pretty after action reports (AARs) with screenshots and annotated/explanatory text, or even better, videos! * create a wish list of features you would like to see added to the game * speak up an…

2023-04-17 We hang out on Discord now https://discord.gg/ZmrFAZXbyw 2018-01-26 We are no longer maintaining an official IRC presence but welcome you to reach out to schedule chats. Find us at #harpgamer on the FreeNode IRC network Web-based Chat

It's been a year since we launched HarpGamer, and I for one have been very happy with the experience. Many thanks to my fellow site administrators, and to all of you whom have supported and participated in the effort.

The HCE beta testing process is now open to all players of the purchased game. As you begin your time with the betas, please read http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=3574 We look forward to your upcoming contributions

Link to Matrix Games forum announcement here. Link to Matrix Games product page here.

Tonight I managed to require that the human-ness question be answered correctly for new users to complete their registration, the previous requirement was any answer at all. Occasionally a spambot does answer correctly but they are few and far between. I don't think any of the 40+ spambots that have flooded the forum since the beginning of 2011 answered the question correctly. Thank you to those who have reported spambot postings, hopefully they will now be slowed down again. I'll add a second human-ness question if need be.

Find the announcement at: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2749422 This is for HCE owners, not HUCE owners.

We have just concluded a site update to add H3 Scenario and AAR pages to the HarpGamer website. At the same time, we've posted Fred's H3DB-050323 release along with 2 HC scenarios he rebuilt for H3, his own Cold North scenario, and Mark Gellis's JAPFISH scenario. Also new to the H3 Scenario Page are two previously authored, original HUD2 scenarios by Kelly Crawford, Kurils and Okinawa II. On the HC front, Brad has released HCDB-050327 and this is also incorporated into the website update. Work continues on the PE User's Guide Appendix for Ships, and I expect to upload Jan Masterson's update of Joe Lanza's PE DB Worksheets, along with a Guide to HC Hotkeys within the n…

A new version of the Harpoon Commander's Edition Database (HCDB-051210) is available. Get it at HarpGamer via the DB Share button. New additions include: JLENS - USA Hkp-15 (A109LUH) - Sweden MH-68A Stingray - USA Drazki FF - Bulgaria Hatf VII (Babur) TEL - Pakistan Mobile radar long range - INTL Mobile radar medium range - INTL Mobile radar short range - INTL Also, you should find your airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) aircraft (e.g. the E-3 Sentry AWACS, E-2 Hawkeye, etc) to be somewhat back to their former "eye in the sky" selves. Have fun.

Please take the poll at http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=17152 and respond in more depth if you have the inclination. Thank you!

HCDB-051221 New additions (or overhauls of existing entries) include: Aircraft: Super Etendard - France Submarines: Ethan Allen SSN - USA Foxtrot (Libya) SS - Libya Foxtrot (641E) SS - India Glenard P. Lipscomb SSN - USA Jimmy Carter SSN - USA Parche SSN - USA Skipjack SSN - USA Tullibee SSN - USA Ships/Mobile Land Units: Algol SL-7 (T-AKR 287) - USA American Cormorant MPS - USA American Merlin MPS - USA Bob Hope (T-AKR 300) MPS - USA Bobo (T-AK 3008) MPS - USA Buffalo Soldier MPS - USA Champion (T-AOT 1121) AOT - USA Falcon (T-AOT 1208) AOT - USA Fisher (T-AK 4396) MPS - USA Gordon (T-AKR 296) MPS - uSA Green Ridge (T-AK 9655)…

The product of many months of hard work (well, hard fun, at least) is finally here. Harpoon: Commander's Edition was released today by Matrix Games. More about the release here. Now, as they say, the real 'work' (or fun) begins.

HCDB-060103 New additions (or overhauls of existing entries) include: Aircraft: CN-235 - INTL Mirage 2000B/C - France Mirage 2000EG-S3 - Greece Mirage 2000EM - Egypt Mirage 2000H5 Vajra - India Mirage 2000-5EDA - Qatar Mirage 2000-5 Mk 2 - Greece Mirage F1CE - Spain Mirage F1CG - Greece Mirage F1CH-200 - Morocco Mirage F1CJ - Jordan Mirage F1CK-2 - Kuwait Mirage F1ED - Libya Mirage F1EDA - Qatar Mirage F1EE - Spain Mirage F1EH - Morocco Mirage F1EQ - Iraq Mirage F1EQ-5-200 - Iraq Ships/Mobile Land Units: Bofors 40 AAA Bty - INTL Bristol (Type 82) DDG - UK Castle (late) OPV - UK Emory S. Land AS - USA GDF 35 AAA Bty - INTL Island P…

[sorry, folks, looks like there are some issues with HCDB-060109 or the compression tools. Please use 060103 until we get em worked out]. HCDB-060109 New additions (or overhauls of existing entries) include: Aircraft: AH-60 DAP - USA C-1A - Japan Dhruv ALH (Navy) - India Dhruv ALH (Army) - India F-16C/D Block 50/52+ - Greece F-4E Peace Icarus - Greece F-4G Wild Weasel - USA HS.23 Seahawk - Spain S-70B-6 Aegean Hawk - Greece S-70B-7 Seahawk - Thailand S-70B-28 Seahawk - Turkey SH-60JKai Seahawk - Japan Tu-16K Badger C - Russia Tu-16K Badger C Mod - Russia Tu-16K Badger G - Russia Tu-16K Badger G Mod - Russia Tu-16KS Badger B - Russia Tu-16N…

Seven new scenarios have been released for Harpoon Classic Commander's Edition: Constant Glance - EC2003 MEDC Last Stan - EC2003 IOPG Thirst for Victory - Westpac Stage Fright - Part Two - EC2003 IOPG Storsjoodjuret - EC2003 GIUK My Pet Dragon - Westpac Blame it on the Kellys - Westpac Grab them at the HC Scen/AAR page. Enjoy.

Four new HCCE scenarios for your enjoyment: Shroud over Turin - for EC2003 MEDC Pinger Charlie - for EC2003 GIUK Bad Moon Rising - for Westpac Waking the God of the Dead - for EC2003 IOPG Grab them at the HC Scen/AAR page. Have fun.