Scenario Design & Discussion

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File Name: Battle of Latakia File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 23 Jan 2011 File Updated: 23 Jan 2011 File Category: Middle East DB Used: HCCW-110114 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-Middle East: .scv - CDB - CDB Battle of Latakia A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the Middle East Battleset and the HCE Cold War (HCCW) Database. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side. The Battle of Latakia was a small naval battle fought on 7 October 1973, during the Yom Kippur War. It was the first naval engagement to involve an exchange of anti-ship surface to surface missiles and in which electronic warfare played a principal role. The Sy…

Greetings, I've played Harpoon for years, but am new to HUCE and the orders Writer. How do I save orders for a scenario that I am designing? FWFS, Greg Emerson, DM1(SW), USN-Retired Renton, WA, USA

File Name: So You Think You Can Dance File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 8 Dec 2011 File Category: WestPac DB Used: HCBD 111122 Authors: Patrick Howard Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac PRC tries a "Pearl Harbor" attack. Let's see how scary the Chinese really are. RED only, you are PRC, you'll have a carrier plus DF-21's.. Duck. Click here to download this file

After Action Report: Operation Lancette NOTE: Usual spoilers follow. Play the scenario yourself before reading further Given the scenario - a peacetime exercise - I decided to employ a strict ROE. With a large contingent of Atlantique maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft based with Flotille 21F at Nimes-Garons, I could afford to set up a sizeable anti-submarine patrol in the area south of Toulon. Four such aircraft were directed to conduct formation patrols in the area, two in the zone extending to 120 nm, and two more at the 180 nm distance, in order to sanitize the intended path of the carrier group. Alouette, Lynx and Alize aircraft were…

File Name: MOB File Submitter: Gdtrfb File Submitted: 7 Aug 2008 File Category: WestPac DB Used: westpac Authors: Gdtrfb Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac Blue only......monster stuff my first time so be gentle with the heckling P.s dont use the CALCM loadout for the -52's please give me some feedback as this was my first scenario wondering if i should make a second Click here to download this file

File Name: First Lightning File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 13 Oct 2010 File Updated: 13 Oct 2010 File Category: Middle East DB Used: HCDB-100930 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-Middle East: .scv - CDB - CDB First Lightning A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the Middle East Battleset and the official HCE Database (HCDB). This scenario is designed for play by the RED side only. It is October 1984. A financial crisis in Latin America has led to huge loan defaults in Argentina, Brazil and Chile. American banks, who had heavily financed the development efforts in Latin America, have been caught by surprise and are now in a serious slide.…

File Name: Spratley File Submitter: donaldseadog File Submitted: 16 Jul 2011 File Category: Custom DB Used: HCDB-110531 Authors: Don Thomas Battleset: Indochina Battleset-Custom: .scz - Custom BS - Custom BS Use Divefreak's Indochina battleset and official dtabase HCDB 110531 (or newer). Chinese carrier group with land based air cover muscles in on the Spratley's under the protection of a combined Australasian surface/ subsurface groups with limited air support. Click here to download this file

Hey, I was just about to dive in and revise this old classic when I found myself wondering if anyone through the years had already done so. The problem with this scenario (as reiterated by the AAR I ran across in my search) is that, with the new sonar modeling, subs are much harder to detect. That, plus those 54nm-range wake homing torps, makes it nearly impossible for the CVBG to escape US territorial waters without losing the majority of its ships (including the CVN). Anyway, once I'm done I'll be sure to post it up here. My goal is to go back and revise all the original Cold War Gone Hot scenarios from the GIUK and NACV battlesets. I have really fond memories…

File Name: Blockade, Part 2 File Submitter: Warhorse64 File Submitted: 14 Aug 2011 File Category: MEDC DB Used: HCDB-110531 Authors: Warhorse64 Battleset-MEDC: .sco - EC2003 - EC2003 Part 2: Meatgrinder in the Med In the summer of 2019 Iran's nuclear weapons program was finally about to bear fruit. Israel used nuclear weapons to halt it. Outraged, the world imposed a complete embargo on Israel. The United States decided to break the embargo, by force if necessary. In a stunning display of martial prowess, the US Navy and Air force blasted their way across the Atlantic Ocean, sweeping all opposition from their path as they shepherded a relief convoy thr…

See: http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...amp;showbug=206 Question: I have half a mind to make it so that you can't add aircraft to the base by selecting an aircraft at the base and then selecting Add Plane, should I do that? So you would still be able to add aircraft to Keflavik if Keflavik were selected but you couldn't add planes to Keflavik by selecting F-15s already at Keflavik. This goes to future capability to have units carrying other units, the current behavior would not meld with that. Looking for opinions

File Name: Headbutt#1 File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 2 Jan 2011 File Category: South Africa DB Used: HCDB 101213 Authors: Patrick Howard Battleset-South Africa: .scu - CDB - CDB The Headbutts This is series of three HCE scenarios, intended primarily for beginning and intermediate HCE players. They are small, and playable from RED or BLUE in each case. I hope that these will serve as a training tool for beginners, and an overview of the relative capabilities of American, French, Russian, and British carrier groups around 2014 or so for more advanced players. "Historical" accuracy is a goal, so Tomcats, Backfires, Vikings, etc. are absent in this collect…

Crap. Just Crap. So thought Admiral Konstantin Sidenko as he slid the vodka bottle away across the desk and looked at the telex one more time. Japanese at Yuznho-Kurilsk, and I have to kick them out. And just three months until a nice retirement, the Black Sea villa, the wine cellar, the mistress, oh, the mistress...Crap! What rotten luck. I wonder who told them what lousy shape we're in. He stood up, put the bottle in the cabinet across the room. No more of that for a while. He put some water in the samovar for tea and assessed the situation. In a large sense, he was "screwed" as the Americans put it. Years of low budgets and corruption had sapped the Far East …

File Name: Attack of the Aliens (tiny scenario) File Submitter: TonyE File Submitted: 5 Jun 2011 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB-110531 Authors: TonyE Battleset-GIUK: .scm - EC2003 - EC2003 The aliens have landed in the mid 1980s! Can the US Navy save London? This is a very small scenario to see how to defeat a limited alien force with one of my favorite CVBGs from the late Cold War. Click here to download this file

File Name: Panama Canal Terror File Submitter: donaldseadog File Submitted: 4 Jun 2011 File Updated: 7 Jun 2011 File Category: Caribbean Basin DB Used: HCDA-110606 Authors: Don Thomas Battleset-Carribean Basin: .scs - CDB - CDB A small scale, short duration action using gunboats, helos, anti-shipping mines and mobile land units. Escort two convoys from the pacific ocean to the entry to Panama canal and protect canal structures. Use minimum HCDA - 110225 database but please note Brad has made some improvements in HCDA-110606 which give improvements. Don Thomas Click here to download this file

File Name: Baltic HDSI File Submitter: donaldseadog File Submitted: 21 May 2011 File Category: GIUK DB Used: n/a Authors: Don Thomas Battleset-GIUK: .sc5 - HDS1 - HDS1 A small basic scenario for the old GIUK HDSI battleset. Mostly airborne action but plenty of naval and ground targets that must be 'had'. Click here to download this file

For today this is just a place holder mostly, but if any of you have any ideas on Vietnam era historical and a historical missions i'd love to hear about them! I've been meaning to get onto this for a while, as I always thought there were too few Vietnam era missions, and the one or two I found were brilliant. I plan to make around 5 historic scenarios, but will extensively research each one, with the help of you guys I hope Also I plan for some 'fun' A-Historic missions, which will be entirely of my own design! For this week I will be researching in main the weapons systems used in the US Advisory Vietnam War era - '63-'65 Notes for research(any ideas for …

I downloded HC's new BattleSets I can find bases in scenario editor for Middle East (including the Red Sea and the eastern Mediterranean) However I can't find bases, in the scenario editor for : Caribbean Basin South Atlantic South Africa The base list seems to have some "generics" like Lrage Airfield, medium Airfield etc. Which I would rhink would allow me to place them in any Battleset. Can you folks advise me what to do. Without bases the new Battlests leave a lot to be desired. Thanks. PS what does this mena? "These newest BattleSets, and the scenarios that come packaged with HCE for them, again all use the HCDB database hosted here at Harp…

The top post in this thread will consist of lists of vlow capable planes for each of the early (pre EC2003) battlesets which have their own built in database. The information has been gathered by trial and error, it may be incorrect. Please contribute (additions or corrections) by adding a post, someone will put the information into this top post. Note1: When testing plane units appear to need at least two aircraft, all single plane units appear to be vlow capable. Note2: Vlow capability doesn't seem to necessarily follow on to later battlesets. the list currently shows those planes found to be vlow capable. Mostly attack and fighter planes tested at the moment. …

Hi all, I saw this article today and it spurred some interest: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=626...c=SEA&s=TOP Combined with the news about the Varyag almost reaching completion and US talks about selling or updating Taiwan's F-16's, I think there are some cool possibilities for scenarios here. 1. Growing escalations have led to increased US deployment before crisis. A more balanced scenario with the US having 2 CVBGs, increased air power from Kadena and Andersen, and subs already in position in the Strait and near key Chinese strategic areas. Objective would be to eliminate Chinese air and missile bases. 2. Surprise. US CVBG is out of p…