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I'm doing some research on a larger Vietnam era scenario during the Rolling Thunder campaign[65-68]. I've learned that destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin were used for SAR missions and was wondering where the omni present helicopters are coming from. A friendly person on the consim world forum for Downtown has pointed me to this document: Navy SAR Vietnam report. On page 3 you can see a helo that is refueld in flight from a destroyer. Is this possible in Harpoon? Or shall I add it to my growing wishlist

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: 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 …

File Name: Indochina File Submitter: divefreak File Submitted: 21 Nov 2010 File Category: BattleSets DB Used: - Authors: RH A smaller map for the Vietnam region/Indochina Click here to download this file

File Name: Southeast Asia File Submitter: divefreak File Submitted: 22 Nov 2010 File Category: BattleSets DB Used: - Authors: RH Map only... BSB setting avaible on request... Click here to download this file

Just wondering if all the other databases are compatible with HCUE that I've just bought, wanted to try the WW2 database and some of the scenarios. Secondly is there any easy way of swapping databases or is it easier to have maybe 2 installations? Also is the Commanders Ultimate Edition compatible with the beta versions, as in can I install them over the top or should I keep my HCE install for that?

Don posted this link at the HULL: http://drphilart.ifp3.com/#/page/home/ Some really good images available there. Buddha

I don't know if the bug is in my head or the game so I thought I'd post here first. I had a scenario which included killing a SAM barge as a victory condition and while my first tests seem to work it later turned out that it didn't. In the scen editor, victory conditions command, I selected "ship" subtype "brg", but when I checked via the 'edit' it listed 'AAA'. Anyone know how I should do this? Don

I was wanting to include a suicide ship attack in a custom database and used a copy of the baka... missile from the kamikaze loadouts of the hcww database. While I can get the missile to destroy the target I can't get it to destroy the suicide ship. I assume the magic code is specific to air launched weapons (somehow) or there is some trick I've missed. Anyway my question is whether there is a general desire for suicide ship attacks eg fast launch loaded with explosives? You could do a fair bit of damage in a shared commercial/naval harbour with the right setup. Don Thomas

Tony...I don't know how you feel about question relating to the "Ultimate Edition" here. If you are opposed just say. The version is 2009.050. Can you give any insight as to how that compares to your most current 2010.10 beta? Essentially, how "current" is the 2010.10 Ultimate version?

Hello, I have a hard time keeping my fighters and strike aircraft alive against opposition. This happens in the PacWest battleset with Japan vs South Korea and to a lesser extent North Korea. What is my best response with an air group against an incoming air to air missile group? Just turn around and run? I tried this with full afterburner on very low, but this exposes the planes to the risk of crashing. And at times the air to air missiles still hit. Often this leads to a situation where both parties are completely annihilated by the missiles. Any advice is welcome

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?

Just wondering if this small item could make its way into the improvement tasklist sometime. From an old post on the Matrix forums ... "I've noticed this for the past few iterations of Harpoon Classic, so I thought I'd mention it again ... one thing that always gets me is the fact that the map jumps around if I click on the scrollbars, even if I do not actually move them. Sometimes I'd like to tweak the map view by just a small amount, but when I actually click on the scrollbar to move it the view immediately shifts from its original position. I'm always expecting a more Windows-like behavior where the map moves only when the scrollbar itself is moved ... you know, s…

Hello all, I've downloaded a couple of Battlesets (Falkland and South Atlantic) but everytime I select the battleset in the game or the SE I get a "memory Allocation Failure" message. Any ideas?

I have searched the forum but am unclear on use of multiple databases. For example, I can download a scenario which needs the america's database. If I download the additional database I know I need to rename the HCE database. How does the new scenario read the right database and are there any problems in renaming the existing HCE database in existing scenarios. Thanks and you have done a great job in updating this wonderful game.

I've been noticing lately that if I detect one sub of a group, within a minute or so, I'll detect the other. At first I thought that was fine, they're pretty close together. But, then I looked at the detection. I was playing a scenario with two surface ASW groups patrolling about 150 miles apart north/south from each other. A submarine was detected by a north group sonobuoy, about 15 miles north of the group, so about 165 miles from the south group. ~1 min later, its groupmate was detected...by CZ contact from the south group? What? You mean it was loud enough for the south group to see it 165 miles away, but the Spruance at 5 knots 10 miles from it never got …

A couple questions I couldn't find answers for on the forum: How are databases related to battlesets? Can you use any db with any battleset? What is the difference between EC2000 and EC2003? They have the same scenarios. I noticed that some scenarios download sections are listed for GUIK or EC2000 0r EC2003 all in one. Does this mean that the scenarios are interchangeable between all three battlesets. I guess I just don't understand why there are different battlesets covering basically the same area with similar units involved.

Noob here. Wanted to know if the AI reacts the same every time you play a scenario or if it can vary from game to game.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who is fielding my questions! I appreciate the assistance. I know noob questions can get old when the same thing comes up so thank you for your patience.

Pay 40 now for HCE or pay 75ish for ultimate and get ANW too? I suppose it kind of comes down to what is available for this game now and what future development is likely? To me HCE does not strike me as a high priority for the publisher to add too many new things to. So is the current version of the game compatible with many databases and scenarios?