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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'm wondering those who are regularly using HC which Game Engine version you normally use, eg 2022.027 last matrix patch, 2025 comprehensive update or something in between. Also, are you occasionally having aircraft fall from the sky having run out of fuel? I'm trying to find when this started, I'm thinking shortly after 2022.027. We have a bandaid fix for recent versions that seems to be working but in ge 2022.008 I recently seem to have found a new version of the bug that is immune to the bandaid solution.

It's been a long time dream by many of us to be able to limit the number of munitions available to aircraft. Recent additions to the game by TonyE just migh have us there. This is a screen shot of an early use of the new Stores Consumed feature that tracks most munitions as they are fired. They can be filtered by firing unit class, home base and side (amongst other). The listing is circled in the lower right of the screen. The information can also be exported to a text file for later perusal. An extension of this could be assigning $ values to munitions giving another dimension to 'scoring'.

Hello, I noted that the SAMs in Harp 2002 Gold have a very high fire rate also seems unlimited rounds (?). Is there a way to correct this ? In my case I mean European bases (Ger,NL, DK, Belgium.... mainly) and the sam in question are Hawk + Patriot. Seems the eastern bases (means GDR,Poland, Russia) dont have this terrible ROF with their mainly SA2s. But I found no way to correct this in the scen editor cause you cannot tweak bases there at all ? Thanks. Frank (I was building a Cold War scen in middle Europe and during testing it showed you need a unrealistic high amount of missiles to hit these bases imo - I cannot imagine that in reality the sites can fire so…

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

Hello guys, I'm new here I had to register here for future conversations and the following question: My eyes are not liking the strong map Colors or circles which are getting almost invisible... Is there some way to the colors of the water? The most important thing: The UI Scaling. Is there such function or a Workaround to have a bigger text and bigger symbols? It's everything just small and hurting my eye. Please give me some advise how to make thing's smooth for my HUCE Combat Ready Status Greetings, Cabal

Hi any word on when the Ultimate Edition will be available? John.

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?

None of my Unit Pictures are showing up (No picture available) Any suggestions? Thanks

Screenshot of what went on in beta testing land today

I have been playing HCE for years. Recently tried installing the new .dll file (first time changing those files). When I run HCE I am told I need to update/upgrade my GE. Any guidance?

Hi, I just upgraded from HCCE (2009.50) to HUCE ( 2015.27 ) and had a few questions: 1. Is there any way to invoke the GE directly using a desktop icon rather than going through the feature selection box ? Attaching a shortcut directly to the game executable doesn't seem to work. 2. There is some sort of window at the bottom of the screen in HUCE, that gives credits for harpoon and where to get digital art. It is no biggie, but is there some way to delete that window? 3. I now have both HCCE and HUCE on my machine. They seem to co-exist with no problem. I was wondering if there was something in this regard that I am unaware of ? Is it possible to use saved…

I tried to create a new topic with an attechement "Active_Sonar.hpq". Unfortunately I get the error message below. Has some one an idea what went wrong? Upload failed. You are not permitted to upload this type of file

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.

New member, long time Harpooner- when I saw there is now a 32bit scenedit, I was ecstatic. Alas, I cant get it to work! Here's what I did: 1. from autorun, hit 'UPDATE' - no (apparent) issues 2. now have HC build 2015.027, HCDB - 150928 and Wscenedt32.exe 3. played game, no issues (EC2003 Battle for the Atlantic Ocean / Scenario 6.0 Lead Off) 4. closed game - opened scen editor - edited same scenario above. 5. opened HC - opened my (user) scenario 6. orders I had created showed up, when I closed that window the game thought for about 5 sec 7. received error window stating 'Game Engine stopped Working' 8. user cried Any help?! Please! Thanks!

It's been a very long time since I have played and my two old windows xp/7 laptops died so I had to buy a new copy to play, I bought it yesterday and was surprised to see it was good with Windows 10 / 11, how does one use the scenario editor though? Back in the day I used to like to make my own but it won't open now..... hoping it's not going to be a hard solution. Any input / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I bought the software and spent six hours playing - glad on on travel so my gal wasn't around! I'm hooked again! I'm running Windows 11 with an I-7 processor 1TB SSD and 32GB so I know it meets system requirements but editor wouldn't open. …

I am trying to run a scenario that says it i running version 7 and my game is version 6. I use to remember how to fix this, but i no longer remember. Thoughts?

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

Just analised the scenario Block2 and player with the victroy condition. To me it seems the game engine or database has a bug. I someone with the attached file able to get the min. vic. condition? BLOCK2t.zip

Hi guys, I am a long time player of harpoon. I want to try running the scenario editor on a Oracle virtual machine. Any help with what version of VM machine would be helpful. I want to use Windows XP as the operating system. Can I use windows XP professional? Should it be Windows XP 32 bit. I'm not asking for help to get this running, I just want to know what hardware and software I should use. Thanks in advance