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I am currently in the middle of playtesting a rather large and intense scenario in the Med, and the Staff Assistant is making me Very Grumpy. About every ten seconds real time he pops up to tell me that there are enemy aircraft in SAM range, and I really should light up my radars. This can go on for half an hour at a time, and makes playing the game somewhat ... painful ... Even worse, on the rare occasions when I do light up, he doesn't seem to realize it, and keeps popping up to tell me to light up radars that are ALREADY ON! This, I can really live without, because it happens while I am trying to deal with inbound SSMs. Is there any way to make him just STFU, o…

I will admit to having been able to play through this scenario once and still come away unscathed during Red's first vicious antiship missile attack. Otherwise I can usually save the carriers, albeit rarely without sustaining some damage and never without losing an escort. How have others fared? Man up!

Back in the day, like many of you, I played Harpoon OnLine but I didn't have enough money to play the paid, just the pre-pre-release . Unfortunately my memory of the actual gameplay is foggy and my current coding efforts are running across some of the items that any multiplayer HC would face. So if you have the answers I'd most like to have my memory refreshed!

Any idea where to get a copy of it?, is it worth? As far as I know there are only hardcopies.

As discussed in more detail here. Use this thread for commentary, questions, etc regarding this new demo release. This one was a looooonnng time coming. A great deal of credit owed to the guys who volunteered their time and skills to contribute to the scenarios used in this demo.

Hi. I tried to post in defect tracking, but apparently I'm not allowed to post there. I've been playing HCEDemo, and it's awesome, but I can't save... or at least open saves. Here's the name of the app: HCE - Demo - A Classic Lives - Build 2009.050 - Demo Expires 2012/01/01 Open application Select USNI - US Naval Institute Click OK Select 1.0 USNI #1: No Man's Land Click New Game Play Which Side: Select Blue File -> Save As Next You see: Harpoon: Commander's Edition GE has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost. S…

Is there anyone who wants to volunteer to update the condensed wishlist spreadsheet? http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=3071 If you are interested, please let me know. It is a laborious but easy process.

This is a little pedantic and more out of interest than anything: say you have a target comprising a single unit of three closely formed planes and you fire three missiles (eg heat seekers). Say you get three hits, now there is a likely hood (in reality) that two hits are on the same plane and so there is one survivor. This doesn't seem to be the case in Harpoon where the hits appear to be divided up evenly. Doesn't really cause a problem (in my mind) as both sides have the same situation and it isn't too far off, but an interesting case of minor deviation from reality. Don

I just got a new computer and I need some help getting Harpoon up and running again. I installed it from the harpoon commanders edition disc, and I'm going to apply the update below. HCE-UpdateComprehensiveInstaller-2009.050 so my question is this, is this the latest version of harpoon commanders edition? If not, please paste the link to the latest edition. I would also like to know if I need any other files to get me up to the latest version, databases, and the links to get there. Thanks very much, John I'm having a problem with the message Windows. When I set a patrol, the message box that says "sir select the patrol designation on the group map"the okay and can…

I don't think it's mentioned often enough just what a great bunch of members we have in this group. A week or so ago, I upgraded to the Ultimate Edition, and completely lost the SE. Within a day, Tony had me back up and running again. This morning, I was attempting to do DB update in ANW, and bolluxed things up to the point I couldn't load a scenario. This time it Was Ralf who saved me from what I thought would be a complete reinstall. I heard back from him with a solution in less than 2 hours. Try getting action like that, (gratis no less), from Microsoft sometime. Thanx to all, Buddha

Hi guys, I am old fan of this game I played it when it used be on 12 floppy discs (must be early or mid 90') so when I saw this new HUE I bought it in blink of eye. In this new edition I have seen some old classic scenarios/battlesets but also some new. Please can you explain me how to install user made scenarios like lets say Falkland (so I can sink Invincible, and die happy ).Is there some kind of sticky or topic where is everything explained step by step. Also is there possibility when installing user scenario something to go wrong with official HUE, I would definitely like to avoid that. I checked FAQ so now I know a little bit more about batt…

File Name: HCE Databases Image Files Spreadsheet File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 2 May 2011 File Category: Tools/Mods/Docs Authors: Anthony Eischens A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for organizing: 1. Image files sourced elsewhere. 2. Matching them with the commondb.rsr "PicID" and "res***.bmp" format. 3. Who sourced the image file and when. 4. What DB platform is represented by the image file. 5. Author of the image. 6. Licensing/intellectual property. 7. Original and high res (if applicable) URL locations. Click here to download this file

Hello, Hmm. I'm rapidly becoming the newbie who fills up the board with questions. So I'm playing retreat in the GIUK set. Managed to whip the Soviet north cape air assets, with only a handful of fighters lost. Now I'm getting ready to run the GIUK gauntlet of subs. I've attached all my land based ASW air assets to the air base at Vagar in the Faroes. Since it won't let me set the range rings to larger than 255 miles, this is the only base with which I can get really good coverage of the GUIK gap. So my P3s and Nimrods are flying out of other bases, because they can't land at the short runway at Vagar. I put them in Vagars formation so they actually auto conduc…

Hello, Another question. I've noticed that some planes crash rather consistently and quickly when flying at very low level. I've also found that it seems like I've been able fly F-16s at very low level quite a lot without losing any of them. Is there a rule of some kind, modern planes can do it, older planes can't? Some planes can, some planes can't? Am I imagining this? Does speed matter? If this is indeed the case, does anyone know which planes you can fly at vlow and which you can't? thanks, Czo

Hello folks, I just started playing this game, a long long time ago I used to play Harpoon Online on AOL. Was glad to see there is still a version out there and supported. I seem to be having some trouble defending my carrier groups against enemy subs. I read in one of the guides that the Perry class frigates have excellent sonar, and I see it is supposed to have a towed array. But according to the range circles, it appears their sonar has less range than the Spruance class destroyers (perhaps not suprising) and also the aegis cruisers. If you go into the unit display, it lists ranges for the main sonar, but the SQR-18 (I think this is the towed array) never shows t…

I think we must change in the submarine biological contact "Whale" the type from MISC(elaneous) to SS, if not, the human player has a clear advantage. When a submarine contact is detected at long range (SOSUS, KEYHOLE or similar) and the player read in the Unit Window "Unknown submarine contact. MISC", is a clear hint of the contact being a Whale, not a SS, and the human player has not to research that contact. Other idea about the Whales: the whale can't be detected by MAD, it need the titanium hull flag for that?

Hello, I mean ... it is the same since several years. While the game engine, thanks to a great group of Harpoon lovers, was REALLY IMPROVED over the years, the scenario editor remained the same. I like to see some new useful things added to it ... for example: 1) the possibility to save a group of ships and to load it in a new scenario ... think to a carrier group ... now you need to add all the ships, the Air Wings, the helos, to define the formation of the group, etc ... every time you build a scenario you have to start all the process again! 2) when a base is added, because many of them are know as home of an Air group, the base should have all the aircraft…

I am a newbie in HCE. I am just trying to do a clean install of HCE on my laptop. I tried the following sequence of patches: 1. HarpoonCommandersEdition-SetupRelease-v2008-024 2. HarpoonCommandersEdition-UpdateInstaller-2008.024 = It's working 3. HCE-UpdateComprehensiveInstaller-2009.050 = Error: The specified file: '' could not be found. Do I have to install v2008.044 before install v2009.050? By the way in this link http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2477778 I saw about 2009.042, this make me confuse, what is the order to install the patch? (if 2009.042 is required, could you give me the download link please) thank you in advance

Hi Folks, Sometimes the details get a little murky. I gather that the new torpedo acquisition ranges are db dependent and that the improved sonar, ESM and ASW modeling are dependent on the game engine? Is this correct? Thanks

Partly because of the way I position the various Windows on my display, I have run into some apparently inconsistent behavior relating to the Windows automatically switching focus, or auto-centering, or auto-panning, so I'm curious if there is a way to avoid these undesired aspects. First, regarding auto-focusing: To make my Group and Unit Windows as large as possible, I have overlayed ("tiled") those two Windows. Consequently, I've observed that when I have the Unit Window in front of the Group Window, and certain Staff Assistant dialogs or orders dialogs pop up that have a "Select" button on them, in some cases, clicking on "Select" will automatically bring the…