Scenario Design & Discussion

AAR: Constant Glance [spoiler Alert] A Harpoon Classic scenario By Brad Leyte "They're fighting over gas!?!", Bradford exclaimed? "I can't believe that they are fighting something when my brother-in-law has such a vast oversupply." A few grins lit up across the room at that. It was intended to lighten the mood and was only partially effective. The entire staff at US-Eastern European Task Force [EETF] HQ could see the dire situation they were in. Odessa had just launched her aircraft in what she would hope to be a lightning quick strike into the Crimea. With luck, they would be able to suppress the lightly defended airbase near Kerch before the Russ…

File Name: Operation Philippine Crunch File Submitter: Stalintc File Submitted: 15 May 2008 File Category: WestPac DB Used: HCDB-080406 Authors: Terry "Stalintc" Courtney Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac BLUE ONLY Operation Philippine Crunch: Three Months ago Chinese forces staged an un-expected and swift assault on the Phillipine island of Manila and has laid claim to the large northern landmass. The Chinese claimed to NATO that this attack was neccesary to crush anti Chinese terrorists that were based on the island. NATO was never aware of any terrorism in China which was being co-ordinated. Further suspicions of ill doing are being raised by t…

File Name: August Storm File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 20 Feb 2011 File Updated: 20 Feb 2011 File Category: WestPac DB Used: HCDB-110216 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac August Storm A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Westpac battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side. At the conclusion of World War II, the Soviet Union annexed the sparsely populated islands of the Kuril archipelago, a region they had seized and occupied during an offensive undertaken in the closing days of the war. The peace treaty made between Tokyo and the allies underlined Japan's loss of the territory, but it did …

Greetings Gang, In what scenario folder can "Dawn Patrol" be found? I want to enjoy a blast from the past.

File Name: Battle of Baltim, 9 October 1973, Hypotetical Scenario File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 18 Nov 2012 File Category: Middle East Battle of Baltim, 9 October 1973, Hypothetical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Middle East Battleset and the HCCW-120614 Cold War Platform Database. This scenario is designed for play by the Israeli/Blue or the Egyptian/Red side, to avoid spoilers is better to play the first time the Blue/Israeli side. On the third day of the Yom Kippur War, a couple of days after the Battle of Latakia, on the 8-9 October 1973, a confrontation between Israeli and Egyptian fast missile boats outcome…

View File Operation Wooden Leg, October 1, 1985. Historical Scenario. Operation Wooden Leg, October 1, 1985. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the new HCDB2-170714 1980-2025 era Platform Database. This scenario is designed with advanced Scenario Editor and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. Image: 120 "Desert Giants" Squadron Boeing KC-707 refuelling Israeli F-15, at the June 28, 2011, Israeli Air Force Flight Academy ranks ceremony. Took from Wikipedia Commons. This scenario is designed to be played mostly from the Blue/Israeli side, the …

HB5 View File Headbutt #5, 5th in a series, Carrier combat USN vs PLAN. BLUE or RED. Easier for RED, harder for BLUE Submitter rainman Submitted 04/16/2020 Category WestPac

From a recent post in HG Current Events: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) conducted a series of intercepts involving Russian and Chinese military aircraft operating within the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on July 24. Two Russian Tu-95MS and two Chinese H-6K aircraft were detected, tracked, and intercepted by NORAD fighter jets from the United States and Canada. While operating in international airspace, their presence within the ADIZ necessitated a response from NORAD which dispatched F-16, F-35 and CF-18 fighter aircraft. An idea for a small scale (not to daunting) scenario for anyone wanting to start writing and sharing HC scen…

Turkey2.zip Here is a revisit of Don's excellent take on Turkey vs Russia. What if you had no F-35's? Victory conditions and order of battle are very much the same. You'll get a few more fighters, a small carrier, and two tankers. This might be hard. DUCK Patrick Howard

File Name: Bear Goes South 2 File Submitter: jugasa77 File Submitted: 30 Nov 2008 File Updated: 22 Feb 2009 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB Authors: jugasa77 Battleset-GIUK: .scm - EC2003 - EC2003 An improved conversion from "BearGoesSouth.sc1" to "BearGoesSouth2.scm". War has began. This is large engagement between NATO and Russia. Orders: Kill'em all! Be careful, don´t shoot down any swedish aircraft. Russia, USA, UK and Norway forces present. Click here to download this file

File Name: "Iron Lady" SNS Dedalo, Mediterranean ASW 1989 File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 17 Apr 2011 File Category: MEDC A Mediterranean basically ASW scenario inspired by the old scenario booklets of the Harpoon 3 series of the late 1980s and early 1990s, good for easy gameplay and for testing generic tactics and weapons. Actually is a mix-up of individual naval scenarios as only the Computer Harpoon can provide. And reflecting all the knowledge adquired the last years in some matters, as about Soviet/Russian platforms and forces composition. The scenario is also a tribute to the USS Cabot CVL-28/SNS Dedalo R01 and her American and Spanish crews. De…

Iceland is occupied by Russian forces in 2015. Take it back with a scratch team. BEARB.zip

I have noticed this in a couple of the recent scenario releases, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to offer a tip for scenario writers. The SE will permit you to move the location of installations (airfields, ports, etc) on the map. Sometimes the coordinates plugged into the DB (via the PE) do not translate well onto the game maps and you will find an airfield slightly off kilter from where it ought to be. Perhaps in a body of water when it ought to be on the coast, or an island, for example. While this does not impact game play in the sense that it prevents use of the base, it does look odd and will change the range/endurance of aircraft operating …

Attempting to come up with a storyline for a WestPac BattleSet that escalates more slowly than say a Chinese attempt to take Taiwan. https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2019/08/26/the-malacca-dilemma-a-hindrance-to-chinese-ambitions-in-the-21st-century/ 2006 Maritime Security and the Straight of Malacca https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA479400.pdf Dire Straits: Naval Security Competition between China and the United States in the Strait of Malacca https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/712787/GJAA 1.1 Sliwinski.pdf;sequence=1 Australia https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/time-for-a-standing-force-to-keep-the-malacca-strait-clear-of-mines/…

Great article and some ideas: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/01/csis-wargame-chinas-invasion-of-taiwan-in-2026/

File Name: My Base Or Yours? File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 8 Mar 2010 File Category: NACV DB Used: N/A Authors: Cobalt Shiva Battleset-NACV: .sc2 - Orig - Original From 1991. "...a "simple" contest between you and HArI O, Harpoon's Artificially Intelligent Opponent." Click here to download this file

Heads' up to scenario authors, the scenario file format changes again in 2017.008 (not released yet) which means scenarios made with the 2017.008 or newer SE will not work in builds of the GE older than 2017.008 and won't be editable in SE builds older than 2017.008. The changes so far are internal and invisible to the scenario author and player. In other words there is no compelling reason for you to move to the new SE right out of the gate. Eventually there will be but by that time I'll probably have changed the scenario format again. To quickly summarize what does change is that each unit, group, scenario, saved game, and plane record (aircraft on the ground)…

After Action Report: Operation Island Wind A scenario by Akula Let me say, first of all, this scenario is indeed a job well done, especially for a first completed and released scenario. I don't profess to be an expert, but I've created a few scenarios and played a few, and this one was really a good job. Hats off ! As well, I must point out just how "prophetic" this scenario turned out to be. The very same day that Akula posted his scenario announcement, North Korea launched half a dozen missiles or more, arousing Japan’s ire. To set up for the strike against the missile base, I moved the three surface action groups (centred on the Kongo class Aegis de…

File Name: LCS goes to War. Battle off Vietnam 2015. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 29 Jan 2011 File Category: WestPac LCS goes to War. Battle off Vietnam 2015 (Hypothetical scenario): This scenario is inspired in the current (January 2011) discussions about the Littoral Control Ship, her future, her future missions and her future fate. In a surprising decission with the absurd allegation of budgetary eficiency, on November 2010 the US Navy decides to purchase a great number of LCS, when yet are not resolved a myriad of issues relatives to the ship design, concept and tasks. The US Navy will purchase ten ships of each one of the concurrent designs (a…

File Name: Battle of the Ligurian Sea, 18 March 1945. Last Stand of Kriegsmarine. Historical Scenario File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 14 Feb 2015 File Category: MEDC Battle of the Ligurian Sea, 18 March 1945. Last Stand of Kriegsmarine. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the HCWW-101110 World Wars era Platform Database. To avoid spoilers is better to play first a few times the Allied/Blue side, and only after play the German/Red side. Image: Camouflaged Yugoslavian destroyers Dubrovnik (left, then Italian Premuda), and Beograd (then Italian Sebenico), probab…