Scenario Design & Discussion

File Name: Operation Praying Mantis 1988, Historical Scenario File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 07 Jan 2012 File Category: Middle East Operation Praying Mantis 1988, historical engagement. Note: This scenario is designed mostly to be played from the US/Blue and it's better to play that side in first place, and to play it later from the Iranian/Red side because it can be a little frustrating and boring, but the victory is also possible. Operation Praying Mantis was the Reagan administration answer to the Irani attacks on neutral tanker shipping and inmediate consequence of the mining deployed from the LST Iran Arj against the USS Samuel B. …

File Name: Operation Praying Mantis 1988, Hypothetical Scenario File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 07 Jan 2012 File Category: Middle East Operation Praying Mantis 1988, All-Out Engagement. Note: This scenario is designed mostly to be played from the US/Blue and it's better to play that side in first place, and to play it later from the Iranian/Red side because it can be a little frustrating and boring, but the victory is also possible. Operation Praying Mantis was the Reagan administration answer to the Irani attacks on neutral tanker shipping and inmediate consequence of the mining deployed from the LST Iran Arj against the USS Samuel B. Roberts …

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: Red Line File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 12 Sep 2012 File Category: Middle East A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the Middle East battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side. During the past few years, and even more so during 2012, the international news headlines have been dominated by stories of the suspicion surrounding the nuclear activities of Iran, whether that nation is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons program, and if so, the mortal threat faced by Israel. Slowly but surely the story has been building toward a potential flashpoint, with increasing concern about the possibility of unilateral action …

File Name: Scimitar (Part 3 of 5) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 5 Mar 2010 File Updated: 9 Mar 2010 File Category: Middle East DB Used: HCDB-100304 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-Middle East: .scv - CDB - CDB Scimitar (Part 3 of 5) A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the Middle East Battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side. In this third instalment in a five part series, the crisis in the Middle East has deepened and expanded into a regional war in which old superpowers threaten to become involved. The Israelis have struck the Iranian nuclear facility at Esfahan, and have largely decimated the Syrian air forc…

File Name: The Capture of Ibrahim al-Awal, 1 November 1956. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 24 Dec 2012 File Category: Middle East Shore Bombardment of Haifa and the capture of Ibrahim el-Awal, 1 November 1956. Historical 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, but it's a historical and very unbalanced scenario. The almost forgetted Suez Crisis or Second Arab-Israeli War was a very interesting campaign with some novelties, as the History first heliborne assault. And ever the…

File Name: The Capture of Ibrahim al-Awal, Hypothetical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 24 Dec 2012 File Category: Middle East Prelude to Musketeer, an hypothetical scenario about the capture of the Egyptian destroyer Ibrahim al-Awal. Image: Dassault Ouragan at the Israeli Air Force Museum in Hatzerim, 2004 by Oren Rozen. Source: Wikipedia. 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, but to prevent some spoilers is better to play first the Blue side some times and only after pla…

File Name: The Maersk Tigris Incident. 28 April 2015. Alternate History Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 02 May 2015 File Category: Middle East The Maersk Tigris Incident, 28 April 2015. Alternate History Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Middle East IOPG Battleset and the HCDB-140909 1980-2015 era Platform Database. Image: An MH-60S Knighthawk flies by the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) during a replenishment-at-sea evolution in the Arabian Sea on Dec. 4, 2012. The Knighthawk is attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 8 and is assigned to the Military Sealift Command USNS Bridge (T-AOE 10…

File Name: The Red Sea Sharks, October 2016. Hypothetical/Historical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 04 Nov 2016 File Category: Middle East The Red Sea Sharks, mid October 2016. Hypothetical/Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 The Middle East Battleset and the HCDB-150928 1980-2015 era or the new HCDB2-170207 1980-2025 era Platform Databases. This scenario is designed with advanced Scenario Editor and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. Image: USS Ponce September 22, 2012. Personnel assigned to the underwater unmanned vehicle (UUV) detachment of Combined Task Group 56.1.4, make preparations t…

File Name: The Sinking of INS Eilat, 21 October 1967, alternate scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 13 Jan 2013 File Category: Middle East The sinking of INS Eilat 1967, an alternative and hypothetical scenario. Image: Project 183R Komar-class missile boat, enhanced by Esquilo from the book of Leszek Komuda "Mały okręt rakietowy", Wydawnictwo MON, Warszawa, 1974. Source: Wikipedia. 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 Red/…

File Name: Threshold (Part 1 of 5) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 20 Oct 2009 File Updated: 9 Mar 2010 File Category: Middle East DB Used: HCDB-090726 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-Middle East: .scv - CDB - CDB Threshold (Part 1 of 5) A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the new Middle East Battleset and the official HCE database (HCDB). This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side. In September 2007, Israel is widely believed to have carried out an air strike that destroyed a partly constructed nuclear reactor in eastern Syria. While much of what really happened remains speculation, the event echoed a previous strike carrie…

File Name: Alpha Strike File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 29 Sep 2009 File Category: NACV DB Used: N/A Authors: Steve Winslow Battleset-NACV: .sc2 - Orig - Original From 1991. Prevent a nuclear strike on the US. Click here to download this file

File Name: Arena File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Updated: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: NACV Arena EC2000 Battle for the Atlantic Ocean An enemy force of no less than 8 Russian and European carriers, supported by numerous surface escorts and submarines, are heading west to assault two critical BLUE bases at Keflavik and Lajes. Opposing them you have at your disposal three carrier battle groups centred around the US carriers George Washington, Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan. Land based air support will be minimal. Defend the shore bases and destroy the enemy carrier force. (Released April 2003). Click here to download this file

File Name: ATLEFED5 File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: NACV Variant on the Hudson Bay/Icelandic Assault EC2000 Battle for the Atlantic This variation on the EuroFed4 scenario finds the Federation bringing a larger fight into the Hudson Bay. By conducting maneuvers in the Bay before hostilities began, the Federation had pre-positioned an effective fighting force, able to provide sufficient offensive cover for an assault on North America - a ploy to pin down available Allied fighting forces, while the real target may well be the Icelandic ports. The Federation will attempt to destroy as much Allied naval power as possible, and will ta…

File Name: ATLEFED7 File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Updated: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: NACV The Federation attempts to close the Atlantic EC2000 Battle for the Atlantic Having been kicked out of Gilbraltar and Spain, the Federation does regain a foothold on the Eastern Atlantic by storming the Canaries. This was made possible due to the withdrawal of the major Allied forces stationed in Lajes, who were needed in the ensuing brawl brewing in the Mediterrranean with the rise of the Near East Federation. The rest were recalled to Norfolk, Brooklyn and New London. Apparently, Langley had received good information about a possible coordinated …

File Name: Battle Ocean 1990 File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Updated: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: NACV Battle Ocean 1990 EC2003 Atlantic First of the Battle Ocean 1990 series. These scenarios are set in an alternate universe. In 1990, the government in Iran collapsed and the country was plunged into chaos. The Soviet Union decided to take advantage of this to gain control of Iran's oil and its warm water ports. It invaded, quickly smashed the Iranian military, and took control of the country. The United States and its allies have condemned the invasion. The Soviet Union and its allies know that the West will eventually attempt to liberate I…

File Name: Battle Off The Azores File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 29 Sep 2009 File Category: NACV DB Used: N/A Authors: Jim Werbaneth Battleset-NACV: .sc2 - Orig - Original From 1998. British and French CVBGs vs. Soviet forces. Click here to download this file

File Name: Big J vs. NYC File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 1 Apr 2009 File Category: NACV DB Used: N/A Authors: Unknown Battleset-NACV: .scf - HDS3 - HDSF Presented in the spirit of the day... Click here to download this file

File Name: Bismarckov File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 29 Sep 2009 File Category: NACV DB Used: N/A Authors: Mac Battleset-NACV: .sc2 - Orig - Original The Royal Navy versus surface raiders . Click here to download this file

File Name: block1.zip File Submitter: Warhorse64 File Submitted: 6 Aug 2008 File Category: NACV DB Used: HCDB-080712 Authors: Warhorse64 Battleset-NACV: .scn - EC2003 - EC2003 In the summer of 2019 Iran's nuclear weapons program was finally about to bear fruit. Israel used nukes to halt it. Outraged, the world imposed a complete embargo on Israel. The United States decided to break the embargo, by force if necessary. Inspired by, but not quite based upon, a series of posts by Christopher Irvine on the HULL mailing list a few years back. Thanks, Chris! Click here to download this file