Scenario Design & Discussion

AAR The Second Crimea War, HDS 1 Battleset, Med, Ukrainian side This is an interesting setup. written back in 1992, there was some prophecy in it. The Ukrainian Navy is much more powerful then it ever was was in reality, though. In this scenario Ukraine has a Kiev Class Carrier and a Kirov Class Battlecruiser. On we go. Shortly after scenario start my two AKI Okean recce vessels are sunk by missile attacks. Some of those missiles were Shipwreck SSMs. Thus coming from either an Oscar Class SSGN or some heavy cruiser. Other missiles were air launched, indicating that there are Fulcrums. Few minutes later: The first air-to-air engagement: I lose one Flanker due to a…

File Name: Eastern Questions File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 09 Sep 2014 File Category: MEDC Eastern Questions A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Mediterranean Battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side only. Some hundred and sixty years after it first ravaged this part of the world, the horrors of a wider war threaten to return to the Crimea. The civil conflict that has been raging in the Ukraine since the early spring of this year had finally shown signs of potentially coming to an end, but the underlying problems and issues that caused the conflagration remain unresolved. The release of a report on the…

File Name: New Russia Part One File Submitter: JSF File Submitted: 10 Aug 2014 File Category: GIUK Scenario Background: September, 15th, 2014. One month ago, Russia invaded the Ukraine. This had been well prepared and the Ukrainian forces were outgunned and overrun in a month. Russia has taken control over the whole country amazingly fast and installed a Moscow friendly regime. Nato acted helpless and chattered in different tongues. The US look weak and are heavily involved in the Middle East where the IS forces gain territory by the day. Russia has decided to make use of this perfect strategic situation. It has massed troops, armored vehicles and …

File Name: Battle of the USS Midway 1988. Hypothetical scenario in WWIII. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 04 Aug 2014 File Category: WestPac Battle of the USS Midway 1988. Hypothetical scenario in WWIII. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for Western Pacific Battleset and the HCDB-130818 1980-2015 Era Platform Database. Image: USS Midway (CV-41) on the Persian Gulf in 1988, with F/A-18A on deck. Photo retrieved from navysource.org and taked by a US Serviceman, and in consequence public domaint. Attributed to Kelly Scherer, SFC, USA (Ret) (Former AO1). This scenario is designed for play with the US-Allied/Blue …

File Name: Manila Galleon 1988 File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 19 Jul 2014 File Category: WestPac Manila Galleon 1988 ... in WWIII. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for Western Pacific Battleset and the HCDB-130818 1980-2015 Era Platform Database. Image: USS Trípoli (LPH-10), undated, but clearly after 1972(installation of Sea Sparrow. Credited to Dennis Stephenson SMC USN Ret in navysource.org, and showed on Wikipedia as public domain because taked by an US serviceperson on duty. This scenario is designed to be played with the US-Philippine/Blue side or with by the Soviet-Vietnamese/Red side, to avoid spoil…

File Name: Philippines Invasion 1988, hypothetical scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 12 Jul 2014 File Category: WestPac Philippines Invasion 1988 ... or Battleship Return to Vietnam in WWIII. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for Western Pacific Battleset and the HCDB-130818 1980-2015 Era Platform Database. Image: Missouri (BB-63) in company with the Long Beach (CGN-9) and others just prior to RIMPAC '88. Retrieved from navysource.org,courtesy of Larry Lee, probably in public domain as taked for an US servicemen. http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/63h.htm This scenario is designed for play with the …

Being absent from this games for 15 or so years, can someone remind me in EC2003 IOPG " The Long View" Where is the C2 that is supposed to be ready in Pakistan?

File Name: The Search for Cyrus the Great, late May 2014 (Alternate History Scenario) File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 13 May 2014 File Category: IOPG The Search for Cyrus the Great, Alternate History Scenario, late May 2014. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for the IOPG Battleset and the HCDB-130818 1980-2015 Platform Database. Image: source Wikipedia. Iranian F-14A. 2008-04-14 18:09 taked by Amirmgh. This picture is taken in an exhibition in Tehran. This scenario is designed to be played mainly from the Blue/US side. You should play many times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the R…

File Name: Submarines Galore 2014 !!! File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 18 May 2014 File Category: GIUK Submarines Galore 2014!!!, late May 2014, Alternate history scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB-130818 1980-2015 Era Platform Database. Image from Wikipedia: Portsmouth, Va. - The nations newest and most advanced nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Virginia (SSN 774) passes the skyline of Hampton, Va., with the campus of Hampton University seen in the background, on its the way to Norfolk Naval Shipyard upon completion of Bravo sea trials. Virginia is the Navys only ma…

US Navy list of homeports and ships assigned (including future ships), very interesting for scenario design: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/lists/homeport.asp

Has anyone played HDSA recently? Like with the 102 build, probably 097 is the same. This is vs red subs in the Atlantic. I just played through the first two battleset scenarios as blue, haven't got single sonar contact (or torpedo up mine), only Keyhole reported some. I know the pond is big but probably the scen designer had something else on his mind but a nav exercise. I just haven't had the heart to check with show-all if it is the sub-stopping issue back from the grave. Now that Tony is not around to exorcise anytime soon.

File Name: Duel near Hampton Roads, New Jersey vs. Richelieu, September 1943. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 18 Nov 2013 File Category: NACV Duel near Hampton Roads, New Jersey vs. Richelieu, September 1943. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for the Atlantic Ocean Battleset and the HCWW-101110 World Wars I&II Platform Database. This is a tiny scenario designed for play testing battleships and main guns, and playable both by the US/Blue or the Vichy France/Red side, to avoid spoilers is better to play the first time the Vichy France/Red side. Image: oficial USN photo contributed by Joe Radingan at navysou…

File Name: Operation El Dorado Canyon, 1986. Historical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 28 Oct 2013 File Category: MEDC Operation El Dorado Canyon, Libya early April 1986. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the HCDB-130603 1980-2015 Platform Database. Image: a low-altitude aerial view of an EF-111A Raven (foreground) and an F-111F flying from right to left. The aircraft belong to the 27th Fighter Wing, which transitioned from the F-111Ds to F-111Fs and added EF-111As. Location: CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, NEW MEXICO (NM) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) C…

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?

File Name: Fate of PNS Ghazi, 1971. Historical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 28 Sep 2013 File Category: IOPG Fate of PNS Ghazi, 1971. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for the IOPG Battleset and the HCCW-130923 1950-1975 Cold War Platform Database. Image: AGSS-479 USS Diablo after the Fleet Snorkel conversion in 1964, in Long Island Sound and before the delivery to the Pakistani Navy. Source: Wikipedia Commons and navsource.org, probably first released by LCDR Tomme J. Lambertson USN (RET). To avoid spoilers is better to play this scenario a few times first playing the Pakista…

File Name: The Storozhevoy Mutiny, 8-9 November 1975. Historical scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 31 Aug 2013 File Category: GIUK The Storozhevoy Mutiny, 8-9 November 1975. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCCW-130801 1950-1975 Cold War Platform Database. Image: from Wikipedia Commons, his sister ship Legkiy in 1993. Description: Aerial starboard bow view of the Russian Northern Fleet Krivak I Class guided missile frigate Legkiy underway. Сторожевой корабль Лёгкий в Северной Атлантике, август 1993 года. On November 8, 1975, the day after of the 58t…

File Name: Retake of Gibraltar by Exercise Cougar 13, August 2013, Alternate History Scenario File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 21 Aug 2013 File Category: MEDC Retake of Gibraltar attempt by Cougar 13, August 2013, alternate history scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the HCDB-130729 1980-2015 Platform Database. Image: Armada Española's LHD Juan Carlos I L-61 with AV-8B+ Harrier II on the deck, Malaga Port 2013. Origin: Wikipedia Commons. Originally posted to Flickr by javicaselli at http://flickr.com/photos/9530856@N02/9167941808. It was reviewed on 8 July 2013 by the F…

A few historical events that might pique your interest in writing a scenario using the HCE Cold War Database (HCCW). I will get things started with the year 1974. Feel free to add to the list. 1974: Paracel Islands, China vs South Vietnam, January 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal, April 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Summer 1974 Rhodesian Bush War, continuing (1964-79)

File Name: Red Lightning 2 File Submitter: Alpha77 File Submitted: 02 Jun 2013 File Category: GIUK Red Lighting 2 scenario description for Battleset HDS9 series3 "GIUK" in HARPOON GOLD ! Here is the complete thread and more info on this scen: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3325616 NOTE1: I DONT KNOW WHICH DATABASE VERSION I HAVE, it is the same database that came with the game, I never downloaded any content, so I guess you need the basic "vanilla" database.... NOTE2: Due to quite massive scale of this scen I am sure there are troubles and questions by players, please use the thread here or at Matrix forum to get help or make comments........... H…

File Name: Fleet Ex 83 File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 05 Jul 2013 File Category: WestPac Fleet Ex 83 A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Westpac Battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side only. The year 1983 has sometimes been described as the 'most dangerous year'. Certainly an argument can be made that this is true, at least as far as the Cold War was concerned. A number of events occurred during 1983 that brought the two superpowers of the era - the United States and the Soviet Union - as close to the brink of war as they had ever been. On 8 March 1983, American President Ronald Reagan delivered a speech …