Scenario Design & Discussion

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File Name: Gale Force (NWJG1) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: GIUK Gale Force (Part 1 of 3) Campaign 1 - Casus Belli: Reason for War New World Order series HDS3 GIUK Battleset With hard-line Communists back in power in Moscow, the former Soviet republics are reunited as the New Soviet Confederation (NSC) on 1 January 1994. Not all republics, especially those in the Baltic region, want to rejoin Communist Russia, but they aren't given any choice. The NSC invades the Baltic republics on 14 June 1994 and NATO responds. (Released September 2000). German and Danish forces attempting to hold back the tide of NSC aggression get so…

File Name: Matrix Lance (remake) File Submitter: divefreak File Submitted: 2 Sep 2007 File Category: GIUK 1. BACKGROUND 1.1 This and the companion scenario MATRIX SHIELD are training cruises for both Armageddon in HDS6 and Cyprus in HDS7. I highly recommend you play MATRIX SHIELD first, and from the RED side; only then should you move up the ladder of challenge! The RED side is the harder one in this scenario, by the way! Click here to download this file

File Name: You And Me Against The World File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 12 Nov 2008 File Category: GIUK DB Used: unknown Authors: unknown Battleset-GIUK: .sci - EC2000 - EC2000 Rescued from the Harpoon Scenario Warehouse. In WWIII, the US, UK and Norway against everyone else. Click here to download this file

Spoilers apply! * * * * * * After Action Report : Eviction Notice This new scenario by Patrick Howard (aka rainman), for the EC2003 Battle of the Atlantic battleset, has a great and altogether familiar premise. The timeless battlesets of Harpoon Classic are chock full of scenarios centered on the North Atlantic - and Iceland in particular. Many of them also depict player controlled Soviet forces in control of Iceland. This time around, as commander of modern day Russian forces who have seized a firm grip on Iceland - and moved in substantial forces - you must hold your position while threatened by American and British forces bent on serving your '…

File Name: Indian Submarine Incursion 2016. Hypothetical/Historical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 06 Dec 2016 File Category: IOPG Indian Submarine Incursion 2016. Hypothetical/Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the IOPG Battleset and the new HCDB2-161204 1980-2025 era Platform Database (But because the limited employed units, it's also playable with the old HCDB- 1980-2015 era Platform Database). This simple and introductory but historical accurate scenario is designed with advanced Scenario Editor and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. Image:An Indian Shishumar-class submarine on…

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File Name: Exhalation (NWJG2) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: GIUK Exhalation (Part 2 of 3) Campaign 1 - Casus Belli: Reason for War New World Order series HDS3 GIUK Battleset With hard-line Communists back in power in Moscow, the former Soviet republics are reunited as the New Soviet Confederation (NSC) on 1 January 1994. Not all republics, especially those in the Baltic region, want to rejoin Communist Russia, but they aren't given any choice. The NSC invades the Baltic republics on 14 June 1994 and NATO responds. (Released September 2000). An NSC surface group attempts to break out of the confining waters of the Baltic. …

File Name: Canada's Helos File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 12 Feb 2012 File Category: NACV DB Used: N/A Authors: Unknown Battleset-NACV: .sc6 - HDS1 - HDS6 From 1993. ASW exercise contrasting the "new" Merlins with the "old" RCN helos. Click here to download this file

Spoilers apply! * * * * * * After Action Report: GIU2 v1.1 - Operation "Channel Watch" Acting as ECON, and with friendly forces arrayed through France and northeast to Denmark, the objective for the player is to suppress UK air defences over the English Channel and to prevent American reinforcements from reaching British shores. Intelligence reported that a US convoy was incoming, under the cover provided by a US Navy carrier and its escorts, and that the Americans had returned in force to Iceland. With 9:18:05 to go, I achieved minimum victory after the destruction of the USS Harry Truman Carrier Strike Group, the HMS Ocean battle group, most of …

File Name: Juggernaut (NWJG3) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: GIUK Juggernaut (Part 3 of 3) Campaign 1 - Casus Belli: Reason for War New World Order series HDS3 GIUK Battleset With hard-line Communists back in power in Moscow, the former Soviet republics are reunited as the New Soviet Confederation (NSC) on 1 January 1994. Not all republics, especially those in the Baltic region, want to rejoin Communist Russia, but they aren't given any choice. The NSC invades the Baltic republics on 14 June 1994 and NATO responds. (Released September 2000). An NSC task force of titanic proportions has set out from the Kola Peninsula, head…

File Name: ECM-HARM exercise File Submitter: donaldseadog File Submitted: 8 Mar 2011 File Category: WestPac DB Used: HCDB-110225 Authors: Don Thomas Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac A development of my earlier ECM-SEAD scenario, here you have four aircraft that are HARM armament capable. For this bonus you pay with stiffer opposition. To save time you might like to use the attack helicopters on some of the easier SAM sites and the MRL unit on the primary target. Don Thomas Click here to download this file

File Name: Cry Havoc (NWKI1) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: IOPG Cry Havoc (Part 1 of 2) Campaign 6 - Kashmir Catastrophe New World Order series EC2000 IOPG Battleset Those who made a sigh of relief when the Cold War ended should learn more about history. Blinded by the sheer size of the nuclear arsenal shared by the US and USSR, many did not realize the inherent danger of the Pandora's Box that is called nuclear proliferation. The world was shocked back to its senses in 1998, when India and Pakistan each tested nuclear weapons. These two nations have long held a bitter abhorrence for each other. They had engaged in armed conf…

File Name: Lisbon We Have A Problem (Old Friends Part 2) File Submitter: eclipse_trb File Submitted: 3 Feb 2009 File Updated: 4 Feb 2009 File Category: WestPac DB Used: HCDB Authors: eclipse_trb Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac This is a continuation of my previous scenario found here: http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...mp;showfile=266 This is version 2 of this scenario it has been changed due to running aground problems and orders rewritten since version one orders were written on very little sleep geography was off Sorry The military of Indonesia has decided that the experiment of Democracy is a failure. Ever since the last elections…

File Name: SCS Bully for You File Submitter: Clemens File Submitted: 29 Apr 2012 File Updated: 1 May 2012 File Category: WestPac DB Used: HCDB Authors: Clemens Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac Scenario Background: Numerous incidents in the South China Sea have finally enraged the PRC leadership. As a consequence they have declared all their territorial claims in the South China Sea to be an exclusion zone. To enforce the exclusion zone the Shi lang and escorts are being dispatched to the SCS. Virtually every nation with a territorial claim in the Spratly's has had their navy set sail and their air forces are conducting combat patrols over their territor…

File Name: Headlong into Chaos (NWKI2) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: IOPG Headlong into Chaos (Part 2 of 2) Campaign 6 - Kashmir Catastrophe New World Order series EC2000 IOPG Battleset Those who made a sigh of relief when the Cold War ended should learn more about history. Blinded by the sheer size of the nuclear arsenal shared by the US and USSR, many did not realize the inherent danger of the Pandora's Box that is called nuclear proliferation. The world was shocked back to its senses in 1998, when India and Pakistan each tested nuclear weapons. These two nations have long held a bitter abhorrence for each other. They had e…

I just started playing Harpoon again after many, many years. This scenario seems to be much harder than I remember. When I used to play it, I could reach 10 subs easily. Now I struggle to get 3. It seems like every time a sub is detected by SOSUS, by the time one of my picket planes get there it has disappeared. And my sub pickets never pick up anything even if I put them basically side by side in the gaps. What am I missing here? What is going on?

Operation Veiled Persona, Operation Veiled Temple View File Operation Veiled Persona and Operation Veiled Temple Two renditions of the B. I. Hutchenson HDSIII NACV penultimate, "Air Force 1," except this time the scene is the Med, and The Comrades are on the run. Blue is tasked with...well...blowing stuff up, akin to Red's orders in the aformentioned scenario. Red's task is to survive...and blow stuff up. Specifically, capital cities. Operation Veiled Temple is a retrospective version of Persona, using older platforms whenever they could be sensibly interjected. Easter Egg Warning: One of the possible target…

Heart 3 View File The Heart of the Problem, Part 3 It is October 2022 and the Chinese have invaded Taiwan. The US is on the way to help. This might prove difficult. A larger and challenging scenario that explores the difficulty of reinforcing Taiwan. OOB and situation is pretty close to what's in the theater today. Uses GE ver. 2022.11. Duck. Submitter rainman Submitted 08/25/2022 Category WestPac  

File Name: Pristine Vision (NWPB1) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: IOPG Pristine Vision (Part 1 of 3) Campaign 7 - Peacemaking in Bangladesh New World Order series HDS3 IOPG Battleset The horrific nuclear conflict in 1998 between India and Pakistan, and between the USA and NSC, had consequences that extended far beyond those countries. Heavy radioactive fallout drifted as far east as Japan and some North Pacific islands. Nations closer to the battle zone suffered severely. Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar were especially hard hit by fallout. The resulting stresses on the economy and social fabric of these already quite poor countr…