Scenario Design & Discussion

File Name: Bearb.zip File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 25 Mar 2013 File Category: GIUK A look at reduced American naval capability in the future.Take back Iceland with a scratch team. Click here to download this file

Spoilers apply! * * * * * * After Action Report: GIU3 - Operation 'Northern Swipe' Minimum victory was achieved at 9:10:05 to go, with the seizure of Keflavik by airborne assault troops delivered by A400M airlifters. Enemy airfields at Reykjavik, Akureyri, and Jan Mayen had already fallen. Friendly losses included: * Project 677 (NATO Lada) class submarine Saint Petersburg, lost while trying to clear datum after closing with the US Navy's George Washington carrier strike group and torpedoing the Bunker Hill class Aegis cruiser Antietam. More to follow ...

File Name: Big Lizzie and Big George, August 2017, Historical/Alternate History Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 19 Aug 2017 File Category: GIUK Big Lizzie and Big George, August 2017, Historical/Alternate History Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB2-170714 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/Russia side. You should play a few times first the Blue/NATO side to avoid spoilers, and only…

Christopher Stoner (aka DarkNite) has released a new scenario for Westpac called Prelude. The scenario examines a Spratly Islands conflict. Check it out. Grab it at the HC Scen/AAR page.

File Name: Border Incident File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 23 Aug 2009 File Updated: 23 Aug 2009 File Category: GIUK DB Used: n/a Authors: Gary Miller Battleset-GIUK: .sce - HDS3 - HDS9 From 1996. Navigation fault or act of war? Click here to download this file

File Name: Red Spanish Main, Juny 1986 File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 03 Oct 2011 File Category: Caribbean Basin Red Spanish Main, Juny 1986. A simple and introductory scenario ... or perhaps not. Note: In this scenario, to avoid spoilers, it is better to play the US/Blue side a few times, and only after play the Soviet/Red side. 1986 was a year full of events with strategic implications, some of them very unexpected: Soviet war in Afghanistan, US retaliatory strikes on Libya against the Gaddafi's terrorist actions, Challenger disaster, launching of the Mir space station, Chernobyl atomic disaster in the Soviet Union ... Many things and alte…

AAR: Alone in the Snow Original Scenario / HDS-II GIUK HC 2002 Gold 2003.16b3 AAR by Ralf Koelbach After having failed winning its H3 ANW rebuilt (done by Herman), I tried the original HC scenario. When I started and looked at my aircraft I was shocked a little bit – no AMRAAMS. The same situation as in Herman´s “clean” rebuilt (before he made the AMRAAM-update), of course. Well, I went for it and was curious how the HC game engine would perform in contrast to the H3 ANW engine. The result was similar: In HC 2002 Gold I was outgunned to – the Sky Flash armed Gripen were wiped out of the sky by Fulcrums and Flankers. Very aggressive AI behaviour – great…

View File Ambush off Jan Mayen, August 1988. Hypothetical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the GIUK Gap 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. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/NATO side or from the Red/Soviet side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red side. Image: Atlantic Ocean, April 23, 2004, USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) receives ordnance from the fast combat support…

AAR: Prelude [spoiler Alert] A Harpoon Classic scenario By Christopher Stoner Most of my units had specific orders for deployment, but no particular orders were issued for the Sea King based at Labuan so she was sent to Swallow Reef to give them a modicum of search capability. As I was operating essentially in the blind, I ordered my only Thunderhawk and MD 500 Defender helicopters into the air for a quick look around. The Thunderhawk quickly spotted a number of PLAN ships from their distinctive emissions and was ordered to run down their lines of bearing in order to localize them. There were several surface contacts. Many turned out to be Neut…

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…

"It gets hot" A HCE scenario written by Donald Thomas aka donaldseadog Battleset: EC 2003 GIUK Database: HCDB The scenario is designed to be played from the British = blue side. After Action Report, Part I by Ralf Koelbach Another scenario focusing on a France vs. Britain conflict. The English Channel will be the battlefield and a lot of assets are in the game. 1. First steps Since the Channel is small and easy to cross for fighter bombers, safety first is to choose. I ferry several aircraft from the Northern bases to forward ones in order to build up a fortress close to the Channel. The carrier group leaves RN Devenport and its aircraft a…

Keeping F35-As flying 1600 mile from base You just need to be organised. One of the advanced toolbox functions is control of IFR beyond the standard game functions. Automated rendezvous of AC groups, adjustable refuel amounts to individual units in your desired order, refueling of IFR tankers from other tankers, use of IFR main tank fuel for refueling (and visa versa for extended IFR tanker range), auto stop of game when IFR routines have finished all make complicated air group patrols and strikes less demanding of the players time and concentration.

Hello all, I'm trying to find time to get back into Harpoon after a long break. Has anyone done a scenario about a modern strike on Iran's nuclear ambitions? I couldn't readily find one in the downloads.

Friends, Just to let you know, I've posted a new scenario on FilesofScenShare. (Brad, please feel free to re-post it here.) It's a battle between Israel and Egypt in a fictional 1990 setting (although inspired by real historical events after the Six Day War), with Egypt getting a little help from the Soviets... Mark

"The failure to implement a comprehensive peace treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War has acted as an obstacle to the resolution of an outstanding territorial dispute over the Kuril Archipelago. In recent years, the Russian attitude toward the issue appears to have moved toward one of consolidating control rather than giving up the territory. Now, the Russians have moved significant military forces into Etorofu, and it appears they are bent on consolidating their illegal hold. A Japanese fishing vessel has gone missing in the area of Shikotan. The Japanese Self-Defence Forces have been mobilized." Such is the backdrop for Brad…

File Name: Western Sahara Tin Can Sailors, Tagomago Ordeal, September 21, 1985. Historical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 25 Nov 2017 File Category: MEDC Western Sahara Tin Can Sailors, Tagomago Ordeal, September 21, 1985. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean 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: Spanish Armada Fletcher-class destroyer D-22 Almirante Ferrandiz (Ex USS David W. Taylor DD-551) patrolling the Western S…

File Name: Hermes the Thief File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 9 Sep 2008 File Category: IOPG DB Used: HCDB_080824 Authors: Patrick Howard Battleset-IOPG: .scp - EC2003 - EC2003 A scenario set in the near future, with a different world order- After 30 years, HMS Hermes must retake some islands with her Harriers. Click here to download this file

File Name: russia2.zip File Submitter: Richard Sherburne File Submitted: 11 Mar 2009 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB-081124 Authors: Richard Sherburne Battleset-GIUK: .scm - EC2003 - EC2003 A what if the economy keeps getting bad. Click here to download this file

File Name: Beira Patrol going hot, 1966. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 02 Apr 2013 File Category: South Africa Beira Patrol going hot, March 1966. Image: HMS Eagle 1970, photograph by Isaac Newton, source: Wikipedia from the HMS Minerva (F45) web site http://www.hmsminerva.info/photos1.htm A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the South Africa Battleset and the HCCW-120614 Cold War Platform Database. This scenario is designed for play by the British/Blue or by the Combined/Red side, to avoid spoilers is better to play many times first the British/Blue side, and only after the Combined/Red side. Is a long and probably difficult scenar…

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