Scenario Design & Discussion

Well this forum seems to be more busy then over at Matrix so let me post this here too: This scen is already playable... there needed to be some minor changes, but I guess it is now too big and the scen editor crashes regulary. But the version I have now (better 2 version, 1 more "heavy" and Red has more stuff) is playable very good on the 2 systems I tested them on (older PCs so newer ones should have no prob at all). Heres the copy from 1st postings at Matrix (I´ll update these to have a little blog about the history and the equipment you have and face) http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3322907 NOTE: THIS WAS DESIGNED IN HARPOON GOLD 2002 - using…

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…

File Name: Operation Ivy Bells, 1971. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 27 Jan 2013 File Category: WestPac Operation Ivy Bells, 1971. The Halibut finest moment. This picture of USS Halibut in San Francisco Bay is a USN official photo apparently in public domain, retrieved from navysource.org, published on that site as courtesy of Darryl Baker. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the WestPac Battleset and the HCCW-120614 Cold War Platform Database. This scenario is designed for play by the US/Blue or the Soviet/Red side, to avoid spoilers is better to play first some times the US/Blue side and only after play the Soviet/Red side. T…

File Name: SLMM Pickings File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 11 May 2011 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB-110415 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-GIUK: .scm - EC2003 - EC2003 SLMM Pickings A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 GIUK battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side only. A month after the start of the Third World War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, most of the Red Banner Northern Fleet has long since departed from its berths on the Kola Peninsula. But with many of the initial, devastating sea battles already fought, surviving Soviet surface ships and submarines are compelled to return to their bases to re…

Played this one through this afternoon/night. US force had to withstand a massive airstrikes from airbases on the Indian mainland early on, which are off limits to counter attack. Once the Bears and Backfires are dealt with there is low to medium air activity from then on until you come into contact with the Indian SAG. Then Su-33 from the carrier air wing keep you on your toes. The SAG was bigger than anticipated, with gear you can expect from an enormous Indian naval build-up. Think wish-list. Indian subs are active and even with me looking for them, I lost one ship for each sub, a Kilo and a Victor III. Indian SAG at that point took off at max spee…

Game start: Time of day 2325 hrs 09 Feb. Slow the CVBG [AAC] to creep, reset the formation to something I like better, switch all the Hornets to Intercept loadout, launch air patrols. Get the JMSDF surface group [AFS] headed back to rendezvous with the CVBG, and get all the subs moving towards Petropavlovsk. Examine Petropavlovsk --- Ye Flippin' Gods! *125* bombers?!? [AFS] has a surface contact on sonar. Staff assistant wants [AAC] to light up its radars, as surface contact is within visual range. Declined. Time to go 3:23:54:20 surface contact identified as neutral merchant Lachesis, spd 20 course 295. TTG 3:23:43:00 ESM contact with a Mainstay AEW bird and …

I was re-introduced to this scenario by a bug report. It took roughly five minutes to re-create the bug from the provided save game. It took another 3 hours for me to stop playing the stupid thing! That was the first time in a number of months I'd spent any real time playing HC for non coding purposes. So with Labor Day Weekend on the schedule I thought I might find opportunity to take the scenario for a spin from the start. The bug report that started it all: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2228326 Find the scenario at: http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...mp;showfile=361 So this is my kind of scenario, lots of action, not all that mu…

After Action Report : Big Lizzie and Big George A scenario by Broncepulido for the EC2003 GIUK battleset and the HCDB2-170714 database. Spoilers apply! * * * * * * I played this scenario from the Blue side, commanding the combined QE and Bush carrier groups in the North Sea, together with a handful of shore based aircraft assets. At game start, friendly reconnaissance assets quickly discovered a combined Russian/Chinese surface action group in the North Sea centred around the battlecruiser Peter the Great and a Chinese Type 052D destroyer. Although the sides are immediately hostile from start, I chose to permit Red to make the best overtly hos…

I am creating a new scenario for the Caribbean. To make the scenario really work I need to provide some intel to each side at a point several days into the events. Is their any way to have the staff come in and announce anything? Seems like if the ability to launchg a strike or recon asset at some time point exists, maybe the ability to provide intel at a time point would be easy also? RAS

Warning...some spoilers.... I tried this out a few times and have failed every time. Usually not utter and embarrassing failure, but failure nonetheless. I have figured out one way to kill the ammo depot. I launch my F-4s at once, fly them in Very Low and can usually blast the depot and get the hell out of dodge before the SAMs kill me. Around this time, I've started to shuttle a fair number of aircraft to Naha. And, around this time, a large number of Red aircraft are on their way to Japan, mostly trying to kill one of my SAGs. And there seems to be about a dozen aircraft, probably launched from the Chinese base on the Senkaku islands, that show up at N…

World War III View File Chaos is rampant in the Pacific. Japan and Russia are engaged over a large find of oil reserves at Sakhalin Island. China must crush Hong Kong secessionists who have declared their independence; failure is not an option as Taiwan and others would surely follow suit. North Korean brinksmanship is at a new peak. DPRK forces are massed at the border and threatening to invade the ROK unless Pyongyang is granted an impossible package of economic concessions. In short, every hot spot in the region is about to boil over! (Released March 2005). Submitter CV32 …

Attached is a scenario I created. Been playing Harpoon for years, back to 360Pacific and finally decided it cannot be hard to create good scenarios. I think this is a challenge, please take a run and let me know. RAS Crete.zip

File Name: Sixth Battle File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 6 Dec 2008 File Updated: 8 Dec 2008 File Category: South Africa DB Used: HCDB-081124 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-South Africa: .scu - CDB - CDB Sixth Battle (version 2.0) A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the South Africa Battleset. This scenario is intended for play by the BLUE side only. This scenario is a tribute to a favorite novel of mine, The Sixth Battle by Barrett Tillman, and although some effort has been expended at recreating the battle depicted in that book, I have also taken varied some of the events and players to make a workable Harpoon scenario. The scenari…

File Name: Gulf of Tonkin Incident File Submitter: divefreak File Submitted: 23 Nov 2010 File Category: Custom DB Used: HC-65to80-DB Authors: RH Battleset: Indichina Battleset-Custom: .scz - Custom BS - Custom BS A smal scen trying to reenact the gulf of Tonking Incident. DB: HC-65to80-DB BS: Indochina Click here to download this file

I've created a small scenario taking place in Vietnam and it gives me an error when starting it. It is designed to be used with db 65-80. Is there any way I can remove that error?

File Name: PAC - PAC6 File Submitter: Palex80 File Submitted: 04 Mar 2018 File Category: WestPac This is the sixth and final part of the series. As with all previous scenarios: Only to be played by the BLUE side. PRELUDE: The sudden deployment of nuclear weapons by the Israeli Defence Force came as a surprise to all involved conflict parties. Faced with annihilation after the collapse of the front along the Gaza strip and the breakthrough achieved by US-backed Egyptian Army units, the Israelis resorted to the last possible measure available to them. The ensuing nuclear storm engulfed US forces in Egypt as well and led to a limited US nuclear strike on Israel…

File Name: Okkupert: Occupy Norway 2016. Hypothetical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 17 Oct 2016 File Category: GIUK Okkupert: Occupy Norway 2016, late October 2016. Hypothetical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition introductory scenario for the EC2003 Battle for the GIUK GAP Battleset and the HCDB-150928 1980-2015 era Platform Database. This scenario is designed with advanced Scenario Editor and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. Image: Spanish build and designed Norwegian AEGIS frigates "KNM Fridtjof Nansen" and "KNM Helge Ingstad", in Oslo, April 14, 2010. Photo by Bjoertvedt, took from Wikipedia Commons with permission GF…

File Name: Oubliette File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 13 Mar 2008 File Category: WestPac DB Used: HCDB Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac Oubliette A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Westpac Battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side. The war in Central Europe is bogging down, and although NATO has suffered horrendous losses, the Soviet armored thrust has lost its momentum. There are rumours of growing dissension and unrest among the upper echelons of military command in Moscow. The risk of the Soviets resorting to the use of nuclear weapons in desperation has climbed considerably in the pa…

File Name: All-out pre-Columbian Alien Invasion 2016 File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 10 Jul 2011 File Category: Caribbean Basin Note: In this scenario, to avoid spoilers, it is better to play the Human/Blue side a few times, and only after play the Alien/Red side. All-out pre-Columbian Alien Invasion 2016: For thousands of years the Nest Ship and perhaps some Mother Ships rested deeply in the Chicxulub meteor impact crater after her interstellar travel with the basic elements moleculary disassembled, occult and mixed in cenotes and with other terrain irregularities and culturally coverted by local legends (or emplaced in the remains of the Olme…

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…