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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…

The next major version of the forum software requires signing in with the e-mail address associated with your forum account rather than a user name or a display name. Reach out via direct message if you have questions such as "what e-mail address do I use?".

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.

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.

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…

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

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.

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

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

I'm happy to announce five new scenarios for HCCE ... Allegro - for Westpac (and sequel to Prelude), by Christopher Stoner The Ninth Immortal - for Westpac Dynasty - for Westpac Predator or Prey - for Westpac Get Your Goat - for EC2003 MEDC And a couple of reworked versions of two earlier scenarios ... Thirst for Victory v2 - for Westpac Waking the God of the Dead v2 - for EC2003 IOPG Grab all of them at the HC Scen/AAR page. Have fun !

As announced by Matrix:

Brad has created and given good start to a section of web links to some of the Harpoon related Blogs out there. Find them at: http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...DE=02&cat=5

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.

A new version of the Harpoon Commander's Edition Database HCDB-051219) is available. Get it at HarpGamer via the DB Share button. New additions include: Submarines: Beluga (1710) SSA - USSR Golf I (629) SSB - USSR Golf II (629A) SSB - USSR Golf SSQ (629R) - USSR November (627A) SSN - USSR Hotel II (658M) SSBN - USSR Hotel III (701) SSBN - USSR Losos (865) SSA - USSR Uniform (1910) SSAN - USSR Yankee I (667AU) SSBN - USSR Yankee II (667AM) SSBN - USSR Yankee Pod (667AK) SSAN - Russia Yankee Sidecar (667M) SSGN - USSR Yankee Stretch (09774) SSAN - Russia Ships/Mobile Land Units: Annapolis (DELEX) FF - Canada BM-14 MRL Bty - INTL BM-21 Grad…

HCE finally has a demo version available Read more at: http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=3446 Discuss the demo at: http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=3452

I've modified the forum source code to show all members that belong to a particular group (when at http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?act=Members). I for instance am part of not only the Staff Pukes group, but also HCBeta (and others), previously the filter by group would only show me in the listing for Staff Pukes, now it will show me in the listing for any of the groups that I am part of. Makes the searches much easier. That said, any official update to the forum software may overwrite my change so holler if it disappears and you want it back.

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.

Tony has whipped up a subforum for the Current Events forum called "Raw Intel" which will import RSS feeds from select websites and blogs. Take a look here at what our HG S2 (intel officer) is digging up.