Scenario Design & Discussion

View File August 1988 Sea of Okhotsk skirmish August 1988 Sea of Okhotsk skirmish, hypothetical scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for Western Pacific WesPac 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/Japanese 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: JMSDF DDH-141 Haruna pulls into Pearl Harbor in 2008, previo…

Rule #1 - Come up with a good scenario that hopefully all will enjoy. Rule #1a - Save often or suffer the ignominious loss of everything you have spent the better part of every waking hour on for the past week.

File Name: No Sanctuary (NWIOI5) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: IOPG No Sanctuary (Part 5 of 9) Indian Ocean Conflict Campaign New World Order series HDS3 IOPG Battleset Struggling to retain international trade in the midst of problems with radioactive fallout and embargo, India's economy collapsed in 1999. But following this breakdown came the discovery of huge oil and mineral deposits in the Bay of Bengal. In Spring 2002 the NSC announced that India had invited them into a "partnership" whereby the NSC would assume responsibility for the military protection of India. The plan would include a newly declared 500 nm Exclusive …

File Name: BreakoutUK File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 22 Oct 2009 File Updated: 24 Oct 2009 File Category: MEDC DB Used: HCDB-090726 Authors: Patrick Howard Battleset-MEDC: .sco - EC2003 - EC2003 Like "Breakout", but MUCH harder- same opposition, less assets. For brave boys only. DUCK. Difficulty has been reduced, a little. Click here to download this file

View File SC93 Sea Control 1993. You have some second line USN ships and a few Harriers. Let's control some sea. Harp Version 2023.11 HCDB2-17909 Submitter rainman Submitted 02/01/2025 Category IOPG  

A new RAND report contains a number of hypothetical scenarios which are focused on aircraft carrier operations and which might provoke some ideas for new Harpoon scenarios (hopefully). The full report is here. China-Taiwan Crisis (2009) The government in Beijing waited until after the 2008 Olympic Games before taking a direct coercive approach against Taiwan. The motivation to take such direct action increased during the games, since the leadership in Taipei used China’s refusal to admit its team into the games as an opportunity to pronounce its “new national status” and virtually declare independence from the mainland. Within a month of the end of the games, Beij…

File Name: Operation Magic Carpet (NWIOI6) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: IOPG Operation Magic Carpet (Part 6 of 9) Indian Ocean Conflict Campaign New World Order series HDS3 IOPG Battleset Struggling to retain international trade in the midst of problems with radioactive fallout and embargo, India's economy collapsed in 1999. But following this breakdown came the discovery of huge oil and mineral deposits in the Bay of Bengal. In Spring 2002 the NSC announced that India had invited them into a "partnership" whereby the NSC would assume responsibility for the military protection of India. The plan would include a newly declare…

File Name: SINKEX '02 File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 4 Oct 2009 File Category: MEDC DB Used: N?A Authors: Unknown Battleset-MEDC: .scg - HDS3 - HDSG From 2002. If you can get through the first hour, you should be OK... Click here to download this file

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…

File Name: All the Way to the Bottom (NWIOI7) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: IOPG All the Way to the Bottom (Part 7 of 9) Indian Ocean Conflict Campaign New World Order series HDS3 IOPG Battleset Struggling to retain international trade in the midst of problems with radioactive fallout and embargo, India's economy collapsed in 1999. But following this breakdown came the discovery of huge oil and mineral deposits in the Bay of Bengal. In Spring 2002 the NSC announced that India had invited them into a "partnership" whereby the NSC would assume responsibility for the military protection of India. The plan would include a newly d…

File Name: Matrix Siege (remake) File Submitter: divefreak File Submitted: 1 Sep 2007 File Updated: 2 Sep 2007 File Category: GIUK This is a remake of the old GUIK II Scen Matrix Siege for GUIK and the latest HC_Euro_DB 1. BACKGROUND 1.1 What is a Brown Water Navy? Well, first of all, it's not a Blue Water Navy! Right now, the only real blue water navy is the US Navy. The Russians will have one again, soon. The British and the French have the makings for one. And the Indians want one. A blue water navy can use any of the oceans, any of the time, for as long as it wants; until, that is, it is challenged by another blue water navy. In short, the…

I am trying to build a user scenario using divefreak's Middle East Battleset. Unfortunately some of the bases are far from where they should be. Dubai is in the middle of the Gulf of Oman, for example, serveral hundred kilometres east of where it should be. Similarly, Abu Dhabi is not on the coast of the Persian Gulf, but in the middle of the peninsula. Is there some other data base that should be used with this Battleset ? Or is it possible to manually relocate a base ? Thank you.

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: Headbutt #2 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 collec…

A neutral surface combatant launched an unprovoked SSM attack on Red forces. This was not programed in the SE. Customary?

File Name: Operation Ivory Prize (NWIOI8) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 7 Apr 2007 File Category: IOPG Operation Ivory Prize (Part 8 of 9) Indian Ocean Conflict Campaign New World Order series HDS3 IOPG Battleset Struggling to retain international trade in the midst of problems with radioactive fallout and embargo, India's economy collapsed in 1999. But following this breakdown came the discovery of huge oil and mineral deposits in the Bay of Bengal. In Spring 2002 the NSC announced that India had invited them into a "partnership" whereby the NSC would assume responsibility for the military protection of India. The plan would include a newly declared …

File Name: Red Herring Express File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 26 Apr 2009 File Category: NACV DB Used: N/A Authors: Bashi Bazouk Battleset-NACV: .sc2 - Orig - Original From 1990. Move a convoy across the Atlantic against massive opposition. Click here to download this file

File Name: Breakout2 File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 11 Jan 2010 File Updated: 9 Feb 2010 File Category: MEDC DB Used: HCDB100208 Authors: Patrick Howard Battleset-MEDC: .sco - EC2003 - EC2003 By request, a modified "Breakout", with a saner starting position and more friendly assets. Upgraded to HCBD100208, with a new obstacle (guess what!). 3 days added to time. Sorry for my lousy playtesting. Duck. Click here to download this file

File Name: hold on Diego Garcia File Submitter: donaldseadog File Submitted: 20 Nov 2010 File Updated: 21 Nov 2010 File Category: IOPG DB Used: HCDB101022 Authors: Don Thomas Battleset-IOPG: .scp - EC2003 - EC2003 Britain and France find them selves facing off with India.... updated to fix a victory condition problem hopefully third time lucky, I hate working at 11pm. Another update, sorry guys, I think I've got the victory conditions sorted out. Don 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…