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I noticed this in HC2002, and now in HCE (which I have recently purchased)- TLAM missiles are listed as being for SURF targets, yet they are unable to target ships. There is a separate weapon for each of TASM and Tactical Tomahawk, but neither of these are implemented in most of the USA VLS platforms. This seems to neuter the CG-47/DDG-51/SSGN-726 as ASuW platforms, as well as limiting the capabilities of the SSN-688/21/774.

Hello guys, just downloaded 2008.044 Public Beta and the latest HCDB. If nothing happens in RL, I´ll be back to HCE business soon. Regards, Ralf

Hi everybody, I'm trying to reinstall my old HC on my new PC, but I don't seem to remember well the steps to have the whole thing working. I installed it by the hcgold_full.exe installer, but now I cannot use the EC2003 default battleset, since I receive the message the the game can only be played by the registered COMMONDB version. I have my serial number and the key Bruce sent me in the old days, but the registration seems ininfluent for the game. I can actually play the other default Battleset. Can someone help me with some advice? My HC version is the 2003.15, Dec 19, 2003 (release) Thank you Francesco Cozzi

File Name: Stalintc's Icon Mod v1.02 File Submitter: Stalintc File Submitted: 15 Aug 2008 File Category: Tools/Docs Authors: Stalintc Designed for use with post HCE 2008.43 I have created a mod for HCE which adds my own personal artwork in place of the stock icons in the game which makes them look slicker and more up to date. Replace the GR_ICONS.BMP in "Matrix Games\HCE\Graphics" with the GR_ICONS.BMP file contained within the attached zip file, remembering to backup your original file should these icons not work as expected or be to your taste. Enjoy By Terry "Stalintc" Courtney Comments are welcome Click here to download this file

File Name: Stalintc's Sound Mod v1.02 File Submitter: Stalintc File Submitted: 15 Aug 2008 File Category: Tools/Docs Authors: Stalintc Designed for use with post HCE 2008.043 This is a collection of sounds that I have sampled together to form a sound mod for HCE since we now have the capability to change such things. Please extract the contents of the folder contaned in this .zip to your Matrix Games\HCE\Sound folder. Please backup your sound files before you proceed to ensure that you can rollback to the stock sounds should you decide these are not for you! Enjoy! By Terry "Stalintc" Courtney Comments are welcome. Click here to downloa…

I just discovered a whole new way to lose aircraft in the game. I've been playtesting a scenario I wrote, set in the North Atlantic. I had just finished wiping out a SAG with carrier air when I got a Keyhole hit on an SSK near the Azores, and sent a pack of SV-22s to kill it. The SSK turned out to be a wolfpack, and halfway through the hunt my Ospreys started blowing up! So I sent an EA-18 out to look for the troublemaker, and much to my surprise, it found a wayward DDG from the SAG, run aground on one of the islands. I'm glad that the AI doesn't blithely sail *across* the land any more, but I have to admit that this particular consequence of that improvement hadn't reall…

Okay, I'm using the HCDB-080712. I've got a group of a dozen SV-22s squatting on top of an Akula which is running at 35 knots at Deep. I've got a rock-solid lock on Mr. Akula, both from sonobuoys and dipping sonar. Range is about a mile. I've fired off at least half a dozen Mk 50s, moving to bracket the sub as necessary. So WTF are the torps just sailing right past the sub as if they can't see it?!?!?!?!?!? Has the acquisition radius on the torps gotten screwed up again?

I understand that in order for a standoff jammer to be effective, it needs to have its radar switched on. But what happens when, as with the EH-60, the jammer has no radar? Can it still function as a jammer? Initial testing seems to indicate that it can't ...

I am new to all this! I have dowloaded and unzipped Red October and have 4 files. Where do I put them and how do I then access them? Thank you for any help on this. David

View File ExportDLL - GoogleEarth Viewer GoogleEarth.dll interface version 5, for GE 2009.042+ Runs a tiny webserver that serves a kml file to GoogleEarth on port 8183 to the local machine (and elsewhere if you do port forwarding). Installation: Extract ZIP with directories intact to your HC directory, the HCGoogleEarth.dll will end up in an ExportDLLs directory and a GoogleEarth directory will be created with each unit icon separated into its own file. See the Word document in the ZIP file for further instructions. History: 01: 2007/09/28 Initial release that is HCE compatible. 02: 2009/02/10 Updated to be compatible w…

ExportDLL - DataDump1.dll View File DataDump1.dll interface version 1, for GE 2007.022+ Writes all of the exported data to HC directory in a file named datadump.txt which is over-written each time the game is loaded. WARNING: The text files can get very large! Installation: Extract ZIP with directories in tact to your HC directory, the DataDump1.dll will end up in an ExportDLLs directory. Submitter TonyE Submitted 07/22/2008 Category Tools/Mods/Docs &n…

im kind of wondering how hce handles asw patrols by aircraft. I send out a p-3 or a s-3 on a patrol, and making sure the loadout is asw, and once they get to the location of the patrol, all they do it seems is fly around in circles, loitering...arent they supposewd to start a line of sonobuoys? or maybe a box MAD search? Or am i not doing something, or doing something wrong? Any help or tips would be great

HarpGamer, in conjunction with Advanced Gaming Systems Inc (AGSI) and Matrix Games, is launching what we call the “HCE Challenge”. The Harpoon Commander’s Edition (HCE) Challenge will be, for all intents and purposes, a scenario design contest, the goals of which will include: • providing an interesting, enjoyable and potentially rewarding way to learn how to write scenarios for HCE; and • generating new and challenging scenarios for potential inclusion in the new official HCE BattleSets: Caribbean, South Atlantic, South Africa and the Middle East). The HCE Challenge will have a competitive aspect, and the “winners” will receive rewards which may include any …

Question for the programmers: would it be possible to arrange things so that the detection range circles are displayed relative to the 'active' unit? eg A B-52 is the active (currently 'clicked on') unit, so the range circle of the Red Mainstay shows ~300 nm detection radius. I then click on a nearby F-22 escorting the B-52, and the range circle for the Mainstay drops to, I dunno, maybe 40 nm? It was a lot easier to guestimate the safe zones when aircraft were either 'large' or 'small' ...

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

Hey everyone, i just wanted to say i am glad to see such an awesome game as harpoon has a good community backing it up and keeping things fresh for everyone! This is my first forum post and i have been hanging out at CV32's irc room for a few weeks now. One of the first computer games i remember buying was harpoon 2 when it came on 6 or 7 floppies, and it had that huge manual that i almost read more than my schoolbooks. Now comes HCE which i quickly found out is more a labor of love by gamers than it is a huge commercial enterprise, and thats a good thing. Im getting familiar with the easy as heck (compared to other games) scenario editor, as i am in the process of…

Hi all I have Hapoon 97 and have played it for years and love it(crashes every now and then but I set the auto save to every 5 min so I don't loose much which files can I use if any to add scenarios to play I also have Harpoon 3 ANW I just don't like the look compared to 97 is there anything I can do? Thanks

Has any thought ever been given to including a function to view a replay of a scenario once it has been won or lost? I've seen it in other wargames, and we used a replay for debriefs when I taught at the MET. It would definitely help the player to see where he made mistakes during play so they could be avoided later. Buddha

File Name: Falkland Island wars File Submitter: wmarsh File Submitted: 18 May 2008 File Updated: 26 May 2008 File Category: BattleSets DB Used: HCDA-080523 Authors: wmarsh Falkland Island Wars. A number of scenarios from 1982 Conflict plus a 1977 prequel and a 2005 postscript. HCDA-080523 or better required Click here to download this file

Who: Anyone who wants to participate, hosted by TonyE and CV32 What: Discuss what you think is needed to consider the next HC patch 'ready', and anything else When: (Saturday) May 24th @ 19:30 GMT TonyE will be there from at least 45 minutes before 19:30, until at least 21:30 19:30 GMT = 1:30 pm Central Time US, 2:30 pm Eastern, 11:30am Pacific,... Where: #harpgamer on the NewNet IRC Network (irc.eskimo.com is usually pretty stable) Why: Because we need your input on the future direction of the game. How: Use your favorite IRC client; servers list: http://www.newnet.net/newnewnet/serverlist.php HG Java Chat 1: http://harpgamer.com/harpf…