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The Issue Tracker link in the Defect Tracking forum is broken. http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?autocom=bugtracker&showproject=6 Brings you to the Sorry page. Is there a way to report Defects currently? thanks!

Hey folks, I got a couple of messages from AGSI and have been asked to send them forward to the Harpoon community. This request was passed onto me from Don Gilman, AGSI President. I know that there are many of you who have contributed snippets and nuggets of information regarding the various games, tactics, and scenario design ideas. If anyone is interested in helping put together a composite of all this stuff, please contact Don Gilman at AGSI http://www.computerharpoon.com/contact Herman Hum I'm looking for some glory-bound folks looking to promote their sites/names by pitching in on an HCCE task. Since most of the H3 manual was done by…

I have several scenarios where the AI player has Oscar I & II class subs. The AI doesn't seem to want to launch the SSMs against opposition task forces. Although they sometimes launch against land bases. Anyone else have similiar results? Steven M Additional: Opposition task forces have been detected (on occasion) by AI recon forces so I think they have been located.

Every month or so, I run into a situation where an AI air group is impervious to any manner of attack, and proceeds to walk right through my formation(s), wrecking havoc on everything in sight! This happens quite rarely, yet I've encountered it a number of times. Typically, the "super group" will appear to be a normal AI group, say a pair of Flankers. Other pairs of Flankers will have attacked (or approached) my formation(s), and have engaged in dogfights or intercepts in a typical manner, being downed or fended off with the occasional loss inflicted on my defenders. But the one "invincible" group will run in, and will absorb everything that I can throw at it - inc…

I just bought a new computer (AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 3.30 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 64-bit Win 7 Pro SP1). When I re-installed HUCE, it seemed to install cleanly. However, when I go to play the game, I run into a problem. I can double click the desktop icon, and that gives me the User Account Control warning screen asking if I want to allow the program to make changes to my system. I tell it yes, and get the Play HUCE box. I select '20 Years of Commanders Edition', and that gets me 'choose version' box. At this point, clicking on any of the versions except 'Harpoon CE' brings up that version of the game, no problem. Unfortunately, clicking on 'Harpoon CE' does absolutely nothing. If…

I have a relatively young computer (less than 2 years), 6 megs of RAM, and a 2.4 GHz 64 bit processor, yet some lots of scenarios run painfully slowly, even old ones. Right now I'm running the original battleset Gatekeeper scenario (as Blue), and time compression or not, it running maybe 5 times real-time regardless of the compression settings. Running Windows 7 Home Premium. I've run the various Windows diagnostics and the computer doesn't seem to be overburdened by anything else running at the same time.

I finally tracked down a copy of Harpoon Classic (DOS) & installed it. However, Scenario Editor won't launch (error message: :Missing HARPOON Resource File(s)" I have uninstalled & re-installed several times now, but get the same error. The game itself runs great. Any thoughts?

What it the best way to move HUCE from my old shiny P-IV to my new pitch black I7?

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?

Operation "Redundancy" has been completed. Operation "Sunday Morning" will again be in effect.

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 was just playing a scenario where the red side was equipped with SA-5 SAMs. The SA-5 apparently detected the blue aircraft at medium altitude and at a fairly long range. The SAM fired. The missile was detected and the blue unit was ordered to a low altitude. At the range in question the blue unit should have broken radar lock as it was below the radar horizon. The missile should have failed to guide. In addition the SA-5 has a minimum altitude rating of medium so it should not follow the blue unit down to low altitude. Correct? However, it did and shot down one the blue unit aircraft. Are the altitude limitations working? Steve M

Just written my first message and realized that I did not introduce myself properly yet Long time Harpooner (from DOS PC game, only GIUK scenario ), it was long time that I didn't played the game. So recently I bought the Ultimate HCE and I'm replaying my favorite scenarios, and discovering ANW. Hope to see you all around here!

Eric finally got me over the weekend to revisit how the game sizes windows. I had re-worked the logic in 2013 and since then haven't really understood why as players we continued to see windows get cut off, the Formation Editor platform list dialog not showing any buttons for instance (since the window was drawn too narrow so the buttons were invisible). That has now been fixed in 2021.005. https://harpgamer.com/harpforum/topic/29035-current-files/ . My 2013 code was good right up until I did a logical AND instead of a logical OR. That foiled my attempt to have the window restoring code skip the size, only restore the left top corner position and let Windows man…

I'm wanting to do a short series of scenarios as ECM, SEAD and related operations with instructive orders. I need confirmation/ further comment on some ECM stuff. My summary is : Offensive ECM has (in the loadout window of the carrying unit) Target = Radar, Range > 0 (and not "Horizon") It reduces the likelihood of enemy radar picking up any aircraft in the effective area of the ECM . Defensive ECM has Target=Radar, Range =0. It only reduces the likelihood of enemy radar picking up the unit carrying the ECM. Jammers have a Range = horizon and reduce the likelihood of enemy missile hits on the carrying unit. Question: Can "Jammers" have Targets other t…

This is IOPG 13.0. Two Alfa class subs had a bad day, they crossed paths with the Invincible battle group. One Alfa was sunk by two Stingrays, the second Alfa however, when hit by the first torpedo, surfaces and turns to 0 degrees at creep speed. (Staff assistant warned that helo group should turn radars on because contacts are within visual range at 2nm. WTF??) Has it just surrendered?? Can the AI do that? And would it count towards victory conditions? Or is this just coincidence? It's 83% damaged, rudder and engineering. OK, they get 15 minutes to get into those zodiacs then we wrap this up.

Just happened upon my CD box of Harpoon Ultimate Edition and will be exploring it again. One quick question, will the included Scenarios in the Battle Sets function correctly with the updated HCE Database? Or are the updated HCE Databases only usable with Scenarios created with them? Any advice appreciated.

Sorry for the late notice but today at 9pm GMT (3pm Central Time US) we are going to be chatting live about possibilities for re-working the structure of a Unit in HC. This means arguing about whether a sensor should be part of a mount or whether a sensor is part of the ship itself,... Discussing how a Marine is carried in a landing craft, and so on and so forth. We'll be chatting on #harpgamer on the newnet.net IRC network (you can use the server irc.newnet.net) We have two Java clients available at http://www.harpgamer.com If you can't get the Java client to work or your regular IRC client, use the PHP chat at http://www.harpgamer.com and I'll see i…

Well, I'm back! ANW has pissed me off, so I'm back looking closely at HCE. I've been playing around with the download section getting some of the battlesets that include the very nice textured maps some of which are very dark. The game icons blend right in and are in effect invisible. Is it possible to modify the icon colors to make them visible ? I think this needs urgent attention. Regards, RedMike...out

Unzip the attached into your 2009.050 HC demo directory. HC2009.054DemoGE.zip HC2009.061DemoGE.zip