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I've mentioned this at the H.U.L.L. before, but I believe this is the proper forum to post it. When an ASW A/C is sent on a long distance patrol, it seems to stay pretty much in one spot dropping buoys at random. The 5-6-5 Distro plan (see attached diagram) was the most popular plan we used to use in these situations. The Kingpin position and Road are based on the area you wish to cover and the Spacing is based on CZ conditions in that area. I realise it's probably not practical to have an A/C in the game drop bouys at these precise locations, but I would suggest an on station Patrol be given a detection area based on such a plan. Input from the player could be limit…

I'm interested in hearing how airfield damage and repairs should happen. Obviously we already have damage occurring including reduction in runway size. However that doesn't prevent air operations in the way you might expect. Please suggest your rules for: 1. Repairs (ex. one runway size increase per 12 hours if die roll of ##) 2. Effects of damage (planes requiring runway size x cannot land or take off from runway damaged to size x) a. Planes in the air divert to nearest friendly airfield ... Thanks! I'm mainly asking because this shouldn't be a terribly difficult thing to implement (runway repair and related effects) and I need something to get my cod…

AutoTesting results. This is a process that runs every built in scenario in autoplay mode (game plays itself) from first the Blue side, then the Red side. 2025.022 Release Build GE Original 4 no crashes HDSI no crashes HDSII no crashes HDSIII no crashes EC2000 no crashes EC2003 no crashes WestPac no crashes USNINew no crashes This is perhaps the best results ever. There were three crashes but upon re-running the scenarios they did not crash.

Hi all, I´ve been out for a year or so due to additional work packages, some unexpected. Now I´m slowly on my way back and willing to start scenario writing; after a 5 (?) years pause. I just installed the latest GE/Se combination. GE works fine, but I cannot start SE. In the old times I knew those issues and the solutions, but I´m a bit rusty. So - how to get scenario editor working? Thanks in advance!

Hi HC players, Please help out your fellow players by being good beta testers. This means when someone posts an issue report, you go and try to recreate the situation. If you find the same lack of, or unwanted, operation of the game, mark the issue as "Confirmed". Add any commentary that you feel was missed from the original report (more detailed instructions to replicate the situation, desired behavior, etc.). Once someone has marked the issue as "Fix Coded" and the mentioned game version is released for testing, please go and test the issue to make sure it really is fixed. The original reporter would mark it as "Fix Accepted by Reporter". Anyone else would mar…

Does the GE grant a bonus pK roll for good Air Combat Maneuvers? Hard pressed by a Mig-31 a flight of Wethersfield F-15s perform an offensive split maneuver. The high Eagle falls back with active radar, the low one races ahead with radar off and fires 3 AMRAAMs at the Mig. The reward, a bonus kill roll: 173939 combat2.c:325 - Checkmount(id = 0x4000, AIM-9R Sidewinder) sets retval to TRUE because wtype 0x18 & type 0x10 != 0 173940 combat3.c:1477 - AirToAirResolution Ph: 40, Roll: 20 173940 combat3.c:1477 - AirToAirResolution Ph: 40, Roll: 48 173940 combat3.c:1477 - AirToAirResolution Ph: 40, Roll: 53 173940 combat3.c:1477 - AirToAirResolut…

CMake command for building Jansson with VS2022 1. At a x86 native Visual Studio command prompt run the following from C:\Prog\Projects\HC\Util\jansson\build> 2. cmake -A Win32 -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" ..

Defect Name: Aircraft stuck at waypoints Build: HCE 2007.031 GE Repeatable: Yes (can be provoked but is occasional) Operating System: Win XP SP2 DB used: Scenario used: Purpose Built - Air_Test.sc1 (savegame and .sc1 attached to post) Battleset: GIUK Long Description: When aircraft is moving along a plotted course, on occasion it will get stuck on waypoints that require a roughly 90 degree turn, the aircraft will change course back and forth for several game minutes until it eventually rights itself and continues on course. Process: - Open GE - Load save *Air_testsave1.hp1* from GIUK battleset - Observe pre-plotted course - Run game time at 30sec slow t…

Defect Name: Refuel not spread to whole group Build: GE 2007.000 Repeatable: Yes Operating System: Vista Ultimate 64bit DB used: HCDB release Scenario used: HDSK 1.0 Wrath Battleset: EC2003 IOPG Long Description: - When a tanker has been added to a group of aircraft containing one or more different types of LOADOUT and refuelling takes place, the tanking process will only address and refuel one group of those aircraft LOADOUT types and the others will not be refuelled. - When a tanker has been added to a group of aircraft containing one or more different types of AIRCRAFT and refuelling takes place, the tanking process will only address and refuel one o…

Defect Name: Attacking ships head the wrong way Build: HCE 2009.004 Repeatable: Yes Operating System: Vista SP1 DB used: HCDB_080712 Scenario used: Saved game "WrongWay" for EC2003 GIUK Long Description: Ships ordered to attack initially head the wrong direction. Steps to reproduce: 1) Load and run saved game "WrongWay" in EC2003 GIUK. 2) Order Group ACS to Attack Base ZZb. 3) The ASA announces "Sir, we are out of range. Group ACS must close 13 NM before we are in range. Should we close and attack?". Answer Yes. The ASA reappears with "Sir, request permission to increase speed of Group ACS to 5 kts, to intercept enemy Group ZZb." Answer Yes. 4) Increase…

Defect Name: Errant "Out Of Torpedoes" message. Build: HCE 2009.001 Repeatable: Yes Operating System: Vista SP1 DB used: HCDB_080712 Scenario used: User scenario and saved game "Submiss2" Long Description: Red is able to launch missiles against a target within mininum launch range. Steps to reproduce: 1) Load and run saved game "Submiss2" in EC2003 GIUK. 2) Have the Red bombers Attack surfaced submarine AAU. The Weapons Allocated line allots one AS-4 to the target. Execute the proferred BOL attack. 3) The ASA announces "Sir, we don't have an exact fix on the target, should we attempt to locate and attack this target? Answer Yes and the SA announces "Sir, A…

Defect Name: Missile launches inside minimum range. Build: HCE 2009.001 Repeatable: Yes Operating System: Vista SP1 DB used: HCDB_080712 Scenario used: User scenario and saved game "Submiss2" Long Description: Red is able to launch missiles against a target within mininum launch range. Steps to reproduce: 1) Load and run saved game "Submiss2" in EC2003 GIUK. 2) Have the Red bombers Attack surfaced submarine AAU. The Weapons Allocated line allots one AS-4 to the target even though Unit Weapons Loaded line reads "Inside Min Range". The missile can be deallocated, but more cannot be allocated. 3) The missile can actually then be launched against the target as a…

Play the attached scen from red side. the docked ships at Neustadt will attack the red group in the Lübeck bight... but a counterattack with the SS-N-2 is not possible. Only wih guns. Planes with Weapons that are land capapble loadouts/weapons can attak the ships. Subs can´t attak too => looks as if all Antiship weapons with out a LandAttck Capability are useless aganst ships grouped with a base. GE used 2008.001 DB HC-Euro DB Repeatable? Yes/always ctdred.zip

Development of Harpoon (Classic) has stopped as of 2013-10-28. AGSI is not pursuing future (commercial) computer Harpoon versions. Matrix Games no longer has a publishing agreement for new releases of Harpoon. That leaves us in more limbo than usual. We would like to continue developing the game. If you would like that too, please contact Bond and/or Carlson and let them know why. You can find their e-mail addresses at: http://theminiaturespage.com/rules/mod/harpoon.html

Last week I let myself get sidetracked in building a new development virtual machine for Harpoon and other programming. It all started as a result of some functionality added to one of my programming tools that leverages MS Edge Chromium. Edge Chromium is a watershed for integrating a web-browser with your traditional thick-client applications like Harpoon. Anyway, that led me to commit to leaving my warm, cozy, Windows 7 development virtual machine behind. I have multiple Windows 10 development VMs but none outfitted as completely as the Windows 7 one (CI/CD, MS Office for the Platform editor, etc.). The what-ifs, otherwise known as the might-as-wells ki…

How do you get the Digital Military Art to show up and work in the game? Is the buttom space with the Welcome to the 20th Edition removable? Thanks

I thought I'd just add a note that I've uploaded modified versions of my toolbox and my extended version of TonyE's lazGUI so as to operate with the GEs since 2017.05. While the internal game changes are being implemented by TonyE these two tools may or may not work, but I'll try to keep them upto date. Also I'd be interested if there are any comments on features within my extended lazGUI that users of toolbox would like (eg the expanded unit information within startgroup?) I also haven't done anything to my other tools such as AAR-report, so any comments would be interesting. (I kind of play with this stuff on the assumption no one else finds it useful so I don't exac…

Priority ranked list of capabilities to add to the ExportDLL interface: Implemented: Write functions that can look up platform information from the database. This doesn't necessarily need to be via the ExportDLL interface but is required to do things like see which weapons are in a loadout. Expose the disk_id_to_annex_id function. Expose the GetLoadoutIndex function. Expose a CheckLocationDepth-like function that takes lat/lon instead of map coordinates. See SCENCHEK.C ~ ln 707 for components. Expose functions to the ExportDLL to replace the EventHead, TopGroup, and such passed by the GE. Currently the DLL is notified when there is a change but the DLL cannot chang…

Please use this thread for questions about the ExportDLL interface. If some intrepid user wants to start creating some documentation that would be most fantastic.

This post is intended as a STOVL rocket booster for programmers who are looking at starting out with the CodeTyphon IDE, like myself, e.g. to shorten the time you can get airborne and start to build your own ExportDLL code. ExportDLL is an API for HCE that Tony generously provided, right now he is working to enable access to the Harpoon Events which as he put it is the soul of them game and will enable the self proclaimed programmers to try their hands on modding Harpoon. The recommended programming tool is for ExportDLLs is CodeTyphon, a free Pascal based public IDE. Here I'm sharing my baby steps with it buildling an ExportDLL, that is installing CodeTyphone and then …