Scenario Design & Discussion

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: Old Friends File Submitter: eclipse_trb File Submitted: 13 Mar 2008 File Category: WestPac DB Used: HCDB-080308 Authors: eclipse_trb Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac File Name: port1w File Submitter: eclipse_trb File Submitted: 13 Mar 2008 File Category: WestPac DB Used: HCDB Authors: eclipse_trb Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac Old Friends A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Westpac Battleset. This scenario is designed for play by the BLUE side. The military of Indonesia has decided that the experiment of Democracy is a failure. Ever since the last elections nothing good has come of it. The country has los…

File Name: Pearl Harbor Midget Submarine Action, Day of Infamy File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 22 Aug 2012 File Category: WestPac Midget Submarine Action in the Pearl Harbor Attack. This scenario is designed to be played from the Japanese/Red side, or the American/Blue side, but is better to play first the Japanese side. The Day of Infamy 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor is almost only remembered by the Japanese carrier-based air attack, but a very controversial, analysed and with few results midget submarine attack was in course a few hours earlier, and it was near to denial the surprise to the main Japanese attack. Later midget submarin…

View File Operation Midnight Hammer, night of 21-22 June 2025. Historical Scenario. Operation Midnight Hammer, night of 21-22 June 2025. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the Middle East 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/US-Allied side or from the Red/Iranian side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red side. Image: A B-2A Spirit and tw…

View File The Battle for Odessa The Battle for Odessa, Part 1 - Ukrainian side Version 1.1 A scenario for Harpoon Classic Battleset : EC 2003 MEDC Database: H2DB by JSF Ukrainian forces will defend Odessa, their last remaining, port, at all costs. Massive Russian airstrikes and cruise missile attacks have reduced Ukraininan coastal defence systems and only those around Odessa are left. Snake Island is under Russian control. Now the stage is set for the long awaited Russian amphibious assault on Odessa. Comments and critiques welcome. Submitter JSF …

File Name: BALTOPS 2015 going hot, 17-18 June 2015. Alternate History Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 04 Jul 2015 File Category: GIUK BALTOPS 2015 going hot, 17-18 June 2015. Alternate History Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB-150621 1980-2015 era Platform Database. Image: HMS Ocean in BALTOPS 2015, near the landing target of Ustka, Poland. Photo by 1st Lt. Sarah E. Burns, USMC, a US servicewoman in duty, and as consequence in public domain. Taked from Wikipedia Commons. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/NATO and partners side or from the Red…

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

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…

View File Two of Five Carriers: Battle for the Eastern Med. Late November 2022. Historical Alternate Scenario. Two of Five Carriers: Battle for the Eastern Med. Late November 2022. Historical Alternate 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. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/NATO side or from the Red/Russian and allies side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avo…

File Name: USS Porter Again, Grigorovich Aftermath, April 2017. Historical Scenario/Alternate History Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 09 Apr 2017 File Category: MEDC A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the HCDB2-170407 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/US side or from the Red/Russian side. You should play a few times first the Blue side to avoid spoilers, and only later play the Red side. Image: USS Ross (DDG-71) fires a…

File Name: Kuznetsov at Bay. 9 November 2016. Hypothetical/Historical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 20 Nov 2016 File Category: Middle East Kuznetsov at Bay, November 9, 2016. Hypothetical/Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for The Middle East Battleset and the HCDB-150928 1980-2016 era Platform Database or the HCDB2-170507 new standard 1980-2025 Platform Database. This scenario is designed with advanced Scenario Editor and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. Image: Admiral Kuznetsov on the Mediterranean in 1996. USN photo in public domain, took from Wikipedia Commons. This scenario is designed to be pl…

File Name: Harpoon 3 Battles of the Third World War, May 1991. HCDB2 File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 01 Oct 2017 File Category: GIUK Harpoon 3 Battles of the Third World War, May 1991. HCDB2 version. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB2-170909 (or later) 1980-2025 era Platform Database. Image: Soviet CVH Baku Project 11434 circa 1988 (from 1990 named Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Gorshkov. Decommissioned in 1996, heavily modified in Project 11430, and in service for India from 2013 as INS Vikramaditya), including her distintive and probably never operational massive phased-array r…

This should be a stimulus for a scenario I guess?

File Name: Operation Attain Document III, Action in the Gulf of Sidra, Libya late March 1986. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 23 Jun 2013 File Category: MEDC Operation Attain Document III, 1986. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for the Mediterranean Battleset and the HCDB-130603 1980-2015 Platform Database. U.S. Navy chart showing operations of the aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60) during "Operation Attain Document III", 23 to 29 March 1986. "FIR" stands for (Tripoli) "Flight Information Region". The photos show a Libyan Sukhoi Su-22, a Dassault Mirage F.1 and a Libyan …

What says the forum ... Is it better to have a scenario that is "epic" in nature - spanning the entire length and breath of a region (i.e., a fight on two-fronts) OR is it better to break things down a bit and examine each front separately? I'm trying to decide on how I should craft one of the upcoming BRICS installments.

After Action Report: So You Think You Can Dance NOTE: Usual spoilers follow. Play the scenario yourself before reading further. Sitrep At game start the 'new' Chinese aircraft carrier Shi Lang was exiting the East China Sea. Her escorts comprised four destroyers, a frigate and a replenishment oiler. More importantly, her air wing comprised about two squadrons of Su-33 'Flanker' multi-role fighters. The phibgru ZTS was nearly 200 nm behind, still deep in the East China Sea but following in the path of the new carrier battle group. It comprised five amphibious ships and four escorts (three destroyers and a frigate). Further out in the Pacific, four …

File Name: SCS Bully for You File Submitter: Clemens File Submitted: 29 Apr 2012 File Updated: 1 May 2012 File Category: WestPac DB Used: HCDB Authors: Clemens Battleset-WPac: .scq - WPac - WestPac Scenario Background: Numerous incidents in the South China Sea have finally enraged the PRC leadership. As a consequence they have declared all their territorial claims in the South China Sea to be an exclusion zone. To enforce the exclusion zone the Shi lang and escorts are being dispatched to the SCS. Virtually every nation with a territorial claim in the Spratly's has had their navy set sail and their air forces are conducting combat patrols over their territor…

I'm an experienced Harpoon, commanders edition scenario creator. I like to create very large scenarios. However, if I make one very large, I sometimes get a memory allocation failure message. Is there a way to avoid that? Thanks, Steve

File Name: Harpoon 3 Battles of the Third World War, May 1991. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 05 Dec 2014 File Category: GIUK Harpoon 3 Battles of the Third World War, May 1991. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB-140909 1980-2015 era Platform Database. Image: Soviet CVH Baku circa 1988. US Navy photo, from Wikipedia Commons. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/Allied 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. A North Atlantic-GIUK scenario inspired by some old sc…

AAR: Waking the God of the Dead [spoiler Alert] A Harpoon Classic scenario By Brad Leyte Captain Goldman was re-examining the map for the umpteenth time. Where would be the best points for ingress and egress? It seemed as though any point he chose would likely be covered by one of the numerous airfields dotting the Iranian landscape. "Well, that's why they call it an INTEGRATED Air Defence System," he chided himself as base S-2 walked up to him. Benjamin Dayan asked him what ordnance he planned on using. To which Goldman asked, "What can I have?". "Anything you like. It's been approved by the Prime Minister, himself," replied Dayan. "Well, I'll m…