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In real life, you're supposed to drive ships with random zig-zags added to the course. Does this have any advantage in Harpoon? If not, it would be really tedious to put them in, given that the scale of a leg relative to the overall travel distances is quite small.

Matrix Games will stop publishing Computer Harpoon no later than April 30, 2025. This action is at the direction of the rights holders of Computer Harpoon. The team at HarpGamer has been dedicated to maintaining and developing Computer Harpoon. However, we do not hold the rights to the game nor to publish the game. As a result, Harpoon Classic/Commander's/Ultimate and Harpoon 3/ANW licenses will no longer be available for purchase. If you would like to buy a copy, visit https://www.matrixgames.com/game/larry-bonds-harpoon-ultimate-edition This ends development of a simulation package first published in December of 1989, 35 years ago as of April, 2025. …

From Greg Wilcox at Matrix Games: "Hi everyone, We've got a Public Beta (v2008.024) Update available via our Members Club. While we do final testing we figured we'd offer you a change to get it early as well. This is still a beta, but it's stable and solid as far as we can tell and includes a brand new feature - The BattleSet Builder! See the change list list below for details. You can download this as a Registered Download as long as you have registered your Larry Bond's Harpoon Commander's Edition serial number in our Members Club (click on the MEMBERS link in the top nav bar). WARNING ! This is quite a large update and with the new features included it weighs in a…

That is pretty much my question.

I have been looking at the WestPac Middleweights scenario. I can't say for sure, but I think the computer (N or S Korea) gets Rafales. We have lots of good AEW planes, and lots of planes with 40 nm AMRAAMs, but the Rafale is hard to detect AND it has 54 nm AA missiles. Any suggestions on how to deal with this menace? And how in the heck did either Korea get Rafales anyway?

Can I play HCE with the 64 bit version of Vista? I'm a real noob when it comes to dealing with OS's.

I just updated my HCE with HC2009.042inc.zip and HC2010.006GE.zip from HarpGamer and did a short run test. I have some serious concerns about one of the changes made since the last Matrix patch, v2008.044. Reports I have read are completely correct, the AI Bear D recon aircraft now do not turn on their surface search radar and are now completely useless, as well as are several billion rubles of ASM carrying bombers up around Murmansk. This castration now makes it impossible to model a key Soviet strategy. With this change several regiments of very expensive Soviet bombers will spend the war waiting for a recon report that will never ever come. Yes, I am NOT amuse…

As I cranked out some code tonight I got to thinking about the interfaces available to ExportDLLs in the game and how they might lend themselves to automated statistics tracking. This would entail the user... 1. Opening a harpgamer.com forum account if they don't have one 2. Downloading and unzipping a DLL to the ExportDLLs folder 3. Upon running the game, answer a few one-time questions such as: 3a. What is your harpgamer username? 3b. What is the statistics key from your profile view? (this is a value only that user would see in their profile) 3c. Mark my statistics anonymous? (yes/no to list either by username or as anonymous) Now when the user starts a s…

File Name: South Africa without included DB File Submitter: divefreak File Submitted: 8 Mar 2009 File Category: BattleSets DB Used: HC-80to95-DB Authors: Ralf Koelbach, René Haar South Africa A Battleset for Harpoon Classic Commander´s Edition Written by Réne Haar and Ralf Koelbach It is 1988. South Africa is still governed by President Botha, who symbolizes the Apartheid-Regime. The country is shaken by riots and the state of emergency is declared. South Africa´s neighbours are waiting for a chance to overthrow the Apartheid-Regime in Pretoria. Meanwhile the Glasnost Era between the US and the USSR ends abruptly: few days after the Moscow Summit in May/J…

I've been trying to get back into playing Harpoon, I have the Commanders Edition that I purchased in 2008 and I have my serial number however I am struggling to identify what I need to download to play, if I go into the Matrix Games account and go to downloads it seems to list some updates rather than the full install which I guess I need to then apply the updates, where can I get the initial installation setup file?

Gidday Gidday all, Downloaded the free demo of HCE and its fun with a very friendly user interface. Am interested in buying Harpoon Ultimate Edition but in New Zealand dollars it is $104.99. Presumably Matrix has sales when one could pick up it cheaper. Any one know how many times a year it goes on sale?

File Name: South Africa with included DB File Submitter: divefreak File Submitted: 8 Mar 2009 File Category: BattleSets DB Used: included HC-80to95-DB Authors: Ralf Koelbach, René Haar South Africa A Battleset for Harpoon Classic Commander´s Edition Written by Réne Haar and Ralf Koelbach It is 1988. South Africa is still governed by President Botha, who symbolizes the Apartheid-Regime. The country is shaken by riots and the state of emergency is declared. South Africa´s neighbours are waiting for a chance to overthrow the Apartheid-Regime in Pretoria. Meanwhile the Glasnost Era between the US and the USSR ends abruptly: few days after the Moscow Summit in…

Guys, watching the HUE coming out and looking forward to Christmas, it is a nice time for reflecting over the "game" which excites us so much. Not about H3 ANW, that´s a totally different story, but about Harpoon Classic. While in the last two years I´ve focused on H3 ANW and not written a single HCE scenario (shame on me but I´ll do it better in 2011 - promised), I never lost contact to HCE and to Harpgamer. Since a few weeks, I have returned full scale, enjoying donaldseadog´s latest scen, having fun whenever I start HCE. And getting "that same old feeling". Why is that so? Why is it so fascinating to play a sim which... ...uses an very old 16-bit sc…

Has there been much thought to creating a number of extremely introductory scenarios to give new players, or recently-returned "strangers" an opportunity to step through various naval warfare disciplines? They could be created in a form that would step up in complexity much akin to how TacOps has a number of similar scenarios where your forces remain the same but the enemy's gear gets enhances while time limits are shortened or the building block scenarios from the H4 Quick Start Rules. Topics could be things as ASW, take in somewhat restricted waters, a 1990's Perry and conduct ASW seaches against a noisy D/E sub, then progressively better equipped opposing subs. …

Hey Guys I've been playing the Harpoon 4.1 rules for a little over 12 months. I've just started looking at PC based harpoon type games. I know this is a Harpoon site, but i had a few questions. 1. Is harpoon the PC game more about large scale battles or running individual ships/subs? 2. Is Harpoon PC any good? 3. How does Silent Hunter PC game compare? 4. Can anyone comment on either game, preferences, strenghts or weaknesses?

File Name: World War II - 1941 File Submitter: Mavgaz File Submitted: 27 Nov 2010 File Updated: 13 Dec 2010 File Category: BattleSets DB Used: HCWW_101110 embedded Authors: MavGaz World War II - 1941 Battleset. This BattleSet is ment to be mainbase for the world war scenarios episodes during 1941 in WWII. This is in testing process where I will be gratfully to receive any opinion, correction or sugestion, even if is criticize. This is my first work in Moding or creating scenarios and battleset. .So it is possible to require few details or modifications. I will be available to any changes and I send any file you need for changes. Moreover I want to …

Currently have HCE and haven't yet purchased HUE. Can I still use the more UTD betas without trashing things?

Was reading in Shattered Sword a description of the mechanics of putting together a Japanese carrier strike in 1942. I had never realized that you needed to warm up a radial engine for about 15 minutes before it was safe to take off. Was wondering: 1) Do you needed to warm up a jet engine?, and 2) if so, for how long? Also, got me wondering, how many aircraft can a catapult launch how quickly? Figured you guys might know.

Hi Gang, How do I correct this screen issue in Win 7? HUCE is installed on my Laptop and the screen resolution is set at 1366 x 768. What should the optimum res be for running HUCE in Win 7?

The game works on the Windows 8 preview, cool