Scenario Design & Discussion

File Name: Pebble Island File Submitter: wmarsh File Submitted: 18 May 2008 File Updated: 26 May 2008 File Category: Custom DB Used: HCDA-080514 Authors: wmarsh Battleset: falk82.zip Battleset-Custom: .scz - Custom BS - Custom BS 5th scenario of battleset, the Pebble Island Raid and preparation for invasion. Click here to download this file

File Name: The Bank Getaway File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 13 Jul 2008 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB 080616 Authors: Patrick Howard Battleset-GIUK: .scm - EC2003 - EC2003 Get some grunts home from the seed bank in Spitzbergen. There are some folks that would like to meet you on the way. Don't let them. Click here to download this file

File Name: Headbutt #3 File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 2 Jan 2011 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB 101213 Authors: Patrick Howard Battleset-GIUK: .scm - EC2003 - EC2003 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 collection. A gu…

Hi folks, I was out for several years, but now I want do restart some pooning. Re-installed HUE with HCUE and was on 2009.50. Scenario Editor not working, but I remembered: the SE was 16 bit and Window 10 doesn´t like that. Next, I installed the latest official update, 2015.027. GE works, but SE doesn´t start: "Cannot verify license." Here I need help. Thanks ind advance!

File Name: Sons of Neptune File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 17 Aug 2012 File Category: South Africa DB Used: HCDB-120621 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-South Africa: .scu - CDB - CDB A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the South Africa battleset. This scenario is designed for play by either the BLUE or RED side. Most folks have probably never heard of the Agalega Islands, which lie about 400 nm northeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Their remote location is key to their importance, especially from the perspective of burgeoning blue water navies like India and China. The islands straddle a vital shipping route for a great deal of com…

Set up Keflavik as a Red Base and added a battery of SA-6s and then ran an attack mission on it. My but I was surprised to lose 30 incoming JASSMs to I-HAWK missiles coming from a Soviet occupied base. I'm guessing I would have to go into the Platform Editor to strip them out, but it does seem odd that a RED base gets to keep and use NATO SAMs.

File Name: Paralyzer (Part 2 of 5) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 3 Mar 2010 File Updated: 9 Mar 2010 File Category: Middle East DB Used: HCDB-100206 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-Middle East: .scv - CDB - CDB Paralyzer (Part 2 of 5) A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the Middle East Battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side only. This scenario is the second in a multi part campaign. In the first scenario, called Threshold, we examined what happened when the Israelis carried out a preemptive air strike against what they believed to be a Syrian nuclear weapons research facility. In the aftermath of that action…

File Name: Matador (NWIN2) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: NACV Matador (Part 2 of 3) Campaign 5 - The Iberian Conflict New World Order series EC2000 NACV battleset In August 1996, increased Basque terrorism in Spain and a new hardline government in Madrid led to a brutal crackdown on ethnic Basque communities. The conflict spilled over into an international incident when Basque refugees fled to France for safety. Spanish military forces pursued and attacked suspected Basque terrorists in French territory. The French were not at all pleased with the incursions, and dispatched their own troops to shut down the border. Accusing F…

File Name: Foxes in the Henhouse File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 26 Jan 2008 File Updated: 26 Jan 2008 File Category: WestPac Foxes in the Hen House A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Westpac battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side. The Soviet HENS submarines - the Hotel class SSBNs, the Echo class SSGNs and the November class SSNs - that began deploying in the early 1960s introduced a major technological breakthrough that gave them a dramatic acoustic advantage over the US Navy's Skipjacks and Skates. The new concept was rafting - where a submarine's engineering plant was placed on a flexible mount or raft within th…

File Name: Fortress V 3.0 File Submitter: RKoelbach File Submitted: 7 Sep 2009 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB 2009/07 Authors: Ralf Koelbach Battleset-GIUK: .scm - EC2003 - EC2003 Fortress V 3.0 by Ralf Koelbach September, 5th, 2009 A scenario for HCE and the HCDB. Battleset: EC 2003, GIUK This is V 3.0 of a classical Cold war scen I wrote back in 2004 and updated to V 2.0 in 2007. The scenario uses a lot of mobile land units and hidden ressources for both sides. Have fun! Click here to download this file

117 new Harpoon scenarios to enjoy! David Ennis has kindly decided to share his private collection of vintage Harpoon Classic scenarios with the Harpoon community. All 117 of these scenarios have never before been publicly available. David is the 15th designer to post his scenarios. This makes a total of 123 scenarios released this year and we aren't even out of January, yet! This must be a record for the greatest number of scenarios published in a single day. Congratulations and thanks to David for sharing his work. Comments and suggestions are encouraged by the author. These scenarios are made with the older Harpoon Classic 97 version, but play jus…

File Name: Strike Two File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 1 Feb 2009 File Category: IOPG DB Used: N/A Authors: Nick Dowing? Battleset-IOPG: .scl - EC2000 - EC2000 The final EC200 scenario rescued from the Harpoon Scenario Warehouse. A variation on the scenario "Strike". Click here to download this file

View File Exercise Dynamic Manta 2023 (DYMA23). 27 February-10 March 2023. Historical Training Scenario. Exercise Dynamic Manta 2023 (DYMA 23), February 27-March 10, 2023. Historical Training Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the HCDB2-170308 new standard 1980-2025 Platform Database. This scenario is designed with advanced Scenario Editor and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/NATO side or from the Red/NATO side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red …

A hypothetical scenario that explores Japan making a surgical strike against North Korea's missile test center. This is not a leisurely task, as you have less than 24 game hours to complete the mission. The player should attempt to limit collateral damage, as the target is very specific. This is my first completed and released scenario, so feedback will be greatly appreciated.

File Name: Judgment File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 16 Oct 2009 File Category: MEDC DB Used: HCWW-091016 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-MEDC: .sco - EC2003 - EC2003 Judgment A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the EC2003 Mediterranean battleset and the HCE World Wars (HCWW) database. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side. The true potential of naval aviation did not come to the fore until the night of 11-12 November 1940, at a place called Taranto in Italy. By mid 1940 the naval balance of power in the Mediterranean did not favor the Royal Navy. The Regia Marina (Italian Navy) had six battleships and more ships of every…

File Name: A Passage to Lebanon, May 1980. Hypothetical Post-Colonial Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 20 Nov 2017 File Category: Middle East A Passage to Lebanon, May 1980. Hypothetical Post-Colonial Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for The Middle East Battleset and the HCDB2-170909 (or later) 1980-2025 era Platform Database. This scenario is designed with Advanced Scenario Editor Build 2017.013 and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. Image: HMS Bulwark (R08) in her last commission period 1979-1981, as ASW and assault helicopter carrier (Commando Carrier), equipped then with different Westland Sea King vari…

File Name: 1977 Falklands Invasion File Submitter: wmarsh File Submitted: 18 May 2008 File Updated: 26 May 2008 File Category: Custom DB Used: HCDA-080523 Authors: wmarsh Battleset: falk82.zip Battleset-Custom: .scz - Custom BS - Custom BS Prequel to the other scenarios Click here to download this file

As many of you have noticed, guessed, etc, Harpoon Commanders Edition looks to finally be released in the next couple of months. But there is still time to submit your WestPac scenario (using the stock DB or HCDB) for inclusion with the game itself as part of the WestPac battleset. There are five slots available for scenarios that are tested and fun, very few restrictions besides that. The scenarios must include orders files for both sides (even if one side's orders just states that side isn't playable). You must also provide the title you would prefer in the scenario listing, i.e. Doolitov's Raid). Since time is tight, there is no guarantee your scenario wi…

File Name: Outside the Anglosphere File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 19 Oct 2009 File Updated: 19 Oct 2009 File Category: South Atlantic DB Used: HCDA-091019 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-South Atlantic: .sct - CDB - CDB Scenario Background: Outside the Anglosphere A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the South America battleset and the HCE Americas (HCDA) database. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side. Novelist Neal Stephenson is credited with coining the term Anglosphere, referring to a community of nations that share not only the English language, but a "cultural heritage of liberty under the rule of law, honorin…

File Name: Refugee File Submitter: divefreak File Submitted: 8 Sep 2007 File Category: GIUK During the summer of 1975, on the Mecklenburg's coastline, a sport boat w/ 4 persons aboard managed to make its way free to the high sea, thanks to the cover of dusk, escaping security forces from the GBK in the process. Despite DDR's efforts, the sport boat managed to get to BGS's patrol boat. The East Germans asked to be brought onboard, as they wanted to go to the West. One hour later, 2 GBK rushed after the Duderstadt and tried to stop her. However, the BGS patrol boat managed to escape, aided by already being in international waters near west Germany. C…