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I would like this thread to be very clean: please don't introduce any side issues. Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of discussion here about detection, and visual detection appears to relatively the least well understood component. What do we know about visual detection? 1) Joe has provided a lot of reports, some anecdotal, some well-referenced, of how his units can't see the broad side of a barn. He has also provided a lot of anecdotal reports that the AI easily detects his units for unknown reasons. We cannot at this point say that those were definitely visual detections. He has provided some well-referenced reports that the AI easily dete…

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.

I understand that in HC, the water depth is determined by the further away it is from land, the more deep of the water is. I was looking at the red sea (middle east) for example, and I felt that the depth fall too quickly to the vdeep... Then I look at the depth around Great Britain also, I felt the same thing where the vdeep is a bit too close to the land.. Just curious on this, is there some consideration to change the calculation on depths--move it further from land? Not sure what everyone's thought on this is... maybe it's just me : )

When attempting to lay out courses for my surface or sub groups using the "visual aids" of the map, I often find later that I have inadvertenly laid the course over a shallow or even a small land mass - which was unseen when laying out the course, even if I used rather extreme magnification. I've also noticed that the visual indications of water depth often do not seem to be consistent with the depth reports at specific groups, that is for example, two groups may be near each other over a large area on the map where the water color is a consistent light blue, yet one group reports water depth as intermediate, while the other's report says VDeep. So, my question is…

Hi All, Thanks to Tony, Don and Eric for working on the next update. Lots of enthusiastic chat on Discord. Question - any insight on how weather affects the performance of aircraft and weapons? I'm working on a planning tool and trying to figure out if I should degrade estimates for hit percentage or range. Thanks much! Geo

The IRC Chat sessions in #HarpGamer often produce interesting and useful information as seen below: Q: Weather. What was done about it? Is there now a better model in place? A: Sea state from weather now has an impact on sonar modeling. [Participant Comment: I remember sailing litte boats into storms with no effect whatsoever.] Q: Is the starting time/date still the same that you have on your PC clock? A: No, HCGold fixed time/date. We also got Night/Day/Morning/Evening to work and affect visual detection. Find the current date/time of day in these terms in the Weather Report. Thanks to all who participated in this informative discussion. Also, pleas…

While playtesting a scenario (attempting to get bombers to attack a CSG) I had some seriously strange stuff happen. A base with 36 Badgers and 36 tankers was tasked with launching 18 tankers and 18 bombers. Several times the bombers got within 200 miles of the CSG but turned around. Added 3 recon aircraft and launched one with two tankers 1 minute after scenario start, then launched 12 bombers and 12 tankers one hour later. Saved it as a different name entirely. Not only did 18 bombers show up (just like the original) but a second flight I didn't order PLUS the recon birds with 12 bombers on their heels! The 12 bombers attacked (proving that I needed a recon bird to put …

I have downloaded a few scenerios which require the westpac battleset. Supposedly this battleset is included in my copy of HCGold, but I am unable to locate it. Any help here?

What's your ideal weapons system to perform which task? How do you do it best while keeping your own weapons out of harm's way? I'll start with ASW. After running through I don't know how many plane and copter loads of torpedoes in vain attempts to sink modern subs (particularly Oscars and Sierras, which seem to be the armored tanks of subs), I gave up on letting the AI run the attacks and started micro-managing them. And I also started looking more closely for the best weapons and platforms to deliver them. Here's what I've found about ASW Ops from the Blue perspective. The AI ASWcwill attack from 2 miles away, which is using up about a third of the total r…

hi! i have been looking for an interesting Harpoon scenario set in the black sea region between Russia and Nato and the Porter scenario in the Harpoon Classic section caught my eye. I am though not sure what i need to do to play it. I have the Matrix edition Harpoon Ultimate edition that has HUCE, ANW, 3.6.3 AND 394 and i think i have it all updated to the most recent versions as per the patches on the matrix site. i am assuming i need to use HUCE for the Porter scenario but where do i put the files for it thank you regards

Hi, I am an old Harpooner who decided to D/L the HC demo the other day. I had all the DOS versions and battlesets, and I did beta testing for H97 and EC2000. I had H2, and I bought Patriot too. So I notice these little lightning bolts that show up next to my a/c, enemy a/c, and enemy surface units. What are theytelling me? I am guessing jamming, but I can't find anthing in the manual. Speaking for jamming, does it just "happen", or are their finer points t using it. In general,I am impressed with the demo. Love the refuelling implementation, and the fact that i don't have to remember to split the tanker off and RTB it. I still think the Phoenix mis…

In earlier discussions, we've seen that relative altitudes affect detectability of target groups, as does separation distance and target size. I'm curious whether other factors such as target emissions, target speed, target or detector aspect, relative speed of target and detector, number of units in target (and/or detector) group, and absolute altitude, are figured into all this - and if so, how. We have seen demonstrated that AI targets having their radars on don't necessarily result in detection by player's forces, but we don't know whether the reverse is true. I have tried to set up some tests to see whether most of these other aspects have any effect, but…

What is the latest HCE build. Where do I get it?

Playing HCE, GIUK scenario "Gatekeeper." Question has to do with Unit and Group screen differences. I have two single-sub units with sub in the center of the formation. One shows in the Group screen that it is the middle of Iceland and Norway, yet the Unit menu shows it running aground in Norway. The second is 269 nm from a red contact in the Group screen, yet in the Unit screen it is 10 nm away and able to attack. It's also moving at 22 degrees in one screen and 244 in the other.

I see in the new website image is not a direct or indirect link to scenario and other downloads. Or is it only my computer???

Hello, I am returning to play HUCE and I have got the HCE 2015.27 update installed. I have been watching the tools and I have noticed that there is more latest updates. Where can we find the latest update? HCE 2021.006 for example?

Hello, I am playing an scenario and Ph of SAM and AAM haven't got the same Ph (I have edited the database). The first message says: 3 of 3xAS-17 Krypton missiles shot down by 3xAIM-9X Sidewinder (FPh=65 Ph=65, DPh=90). 90-65=25%. Another message says (after a few seconds): 2 of 2xAS-17 Krypton missiles shot down by 2xAIM-9X Sidewinder (FPh=85 Ph=85, DPh=90). 90-85=5, 20% less than the first message. The last message says (some minutes later): 0 of 1xAS-17 Krypton missiles shot down by 1xMIM-104A Patriot (FPh=35 Ph=35, DPh=60). 60-35=25 as the first message. Why does the second message change? Shouldn't be as the first message?

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…

Games seems fine, but Scenario Editor doesn't load. UPDATE: seems like there have been update far beyond Matrix. is there any way to use the Scenario Editor with win7 x64? weird the two companion programs got separated.

New to this. Have not been in Harpoon for almost 10 years. XP machine way to slow. Now have windows 10 and fast PC. Can I play Harpoon on it and what do I need to make it so. Any recommendations entertained. Thanks