Scenario Design & Discussion

File Name: IOPGNIGHTMARE File Submitter: tdavis49858 File Submitted: 14 Dec 2017 File Category: IOPG USA vs. The World (Please read readmefirst.txt before playing) Click here to download this file

Crap. Just Crap. So thought Admiral Konstantin Sidenko as he slid the vodka bottle away across the desk and looked at the telex one more time. Japanese at Yuznho-Kurilsk, and I have to kick them out. And just three months until a nice retirement, the Black Sea villa, the wine cellar, the mistress, oh, the mistress...Crap! What rotten luck. I wonder who told them what lousy shape we're in. He stood up, put the bottle in the cabinet across the room. No more of that for a while. He put some water in the samovar for tea and assessed the situation. In a large sense, he was "screwed" as the Americans put it. Years of low budgets and corruption had sapped the Far East …

File Name: Drake's Passage File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 11 Jan 2010 File Updated: 11 Jan 2010 File Category: South Atlantic DB Used: HCDA091023 Authors: Patrick Howard Battleset-South Atlantic: .sct - CDB - CDB Russia (red) vs Chile, Argentina and Brazil. BLUE only. A carrier battle, or not. This scenario explores the ability of 2nd world navies against 1st world opponents. RED version to follow. Updated to include torpedo speeds in notes only, scenario is unchanged. Click here to download this file

I played this scenario as RED (Russia) You are given command of 5 submarine groups operating in the North Sea. Your task is to kill the UK carrier Queen Elizabeth as well as any escorts, that may be escorting her. You have a few ASW and recon assets in Kola Airfields, but no strike aircraft. I started off by checking bearings and speed of my submarines. They all made sense, so I left them untouched, with the exception of lowering speed on a couple of groups to make detection by the British harder. A few aircraft were launched from the Kola airfields. I then accelerated the game, since I didn't expect much to happen. The first report came in from the di…

File Name: NATO Baltic Air Policing in action, late May 2014. Alternate history scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 07 Apr 2014 File Category: GIUK NATO Baltic Air Policing in action, late May 2014. Alternate history scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB-130818 1980-2015 era Platform Database. Image source Wikipedia: Description: Su-27SM3 at the Celebration of the 100th anniversary of Russian Air Force. Date 12 August 2012, 16:48:23 Source http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/464 Author Vitaly V. Kuzmin. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/Baltic-Sta…

File Name: Bear Goes South 2 File Submitter: jugasa77 File Submitted: 30 Nov 2008 File Updated: 22 Feb 2009 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB Authors: jugasa77 Battleset-GIUK: .scm - EC2003 - EC2003 An improved conversion from "BearGoesSouth.sc1" to "BearGoesSouth2.scm". War has began. This is large engagement between NATO and Russia. Orders: Kill'em all! Be careful, don´t shoot down any swedish aircraft. Russia, USA, UK and Norway forces present. Click here to download this file

File Name: "Iron Lady" SNS Dedalo, Mediterranean ASW 1989 File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 17 Apr 2011 File Category: MEDC A Mediterranean basically ASW scenario inspired by the old scenario booklets of the Harpoon 3 series of the late 1980s and early 1990s, good for easy gameplay and for testing generic tactics and weapons. Actually is a mix-up of individual naval scenarios as only the Computer Harpoon can provide. And reflecting all the knowledge adquired the last years in some matters, as about Soviet/Russian platforms and forces composition. The scenario is also a tribute to the USS Cabot CVL-28/SNS Dedalo R01 and her American and Spanish crews. De…

After Action Report: Korean Gulf [spoiler Alert] A scenario by Mark Gellis Mark Gellis, a long time scenario writer, has produced another benchmark for anyone interested in small sized but very effective and entertaining scenarios for Harpoon Classic. My Korean ship group comprised six commercial tankers and a pair of South Korean Navy warships – the Ulsan class frigate Chung Nam and the Okpo (KDX-1) destroyer Ulchimundok, and embarked with the latter, a pair of Super Lynx helicopters. The group was already assembled outside the port and airfield at Abu Dhabi and would have to transit the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman under Iranian threat. Fortun…

I'm having trouble getting this [Tesseract scenario] to run on HCE, original GE. Anybody else?

Are other folks seeing weirdness in EC2003 IOPG scenario 5 (HDSK5.0) "Those Traveled Roads"? Specifically, installation place names coming up as not matching their proper names, or otherwise shown as "donotuse" ?

File Name: BRICS #3: Northern Moves (Part TWO) File Submitter: gemerson File Submitted: 13 Aug 2012 File Updated: 15 Aug 2012 File Category: NACV DB Used: HCDB-120522 Authors: Greg Emerson Battleset-NACV: .scn - EC2003 - EC2003 BRICS Campaign - Scenario #3: Northern Moves (Part TWO) A Harpoon Commanders Edition (HCE) scenario for the North Atlantic 2003 Battleset. This scenario is designed for play by either BLUE or RED sides. Scenesetter: (Taken from “The BRICS Conflict – A Brief History of the Third World War (2016 to 2018)”) The 60-hours following the kick-off of Operation: Northern Moves was a global whirlwind of activity. Thouroughly out-m…

File Name: Sub Hunt off Faslane 2014. Historical Scenario/Alternate History Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 18 Dec 2014 File Category: GIUK Sub Hunt off Faslane 2014. Historical scenario/Alternate history scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 Battle for GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCDB-140909 1980-2015 era Platform Database or the New Standard HCDB2-170611 1980-2025 era Platform Database. Image: Royal Air Force Sentinel R.1 visits the National Test Pilot School at Mojave, 29 October 2007. Photo by Alan Radecki. From Wikipedia Commons. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/NATO side or…

Hi everbody....got some questions about scen design.....premis is japan has fallen to red forces Tokyo,Hamamatsu have approx 300 aircrat ea 12 sam btys 4 other red airbases same 2 btlle grps (cv/bcgn)20SSGN 20SSN in pacific. Blue forces are 4 Cvn Ed lasner 20 CG/DDG/FFG/AOE Guam/Shemya 130 aircraft ea approx question 1 will ai form its own attacks/movement orders for Aircraft/Subs/Ships or must they all be scripted? Q2 will ai use EW assets intellegently or must they be scripted? Q3 all red bases have 10aew 10-20 ew/recn ac is this enough? Q4 all reb bases have total 20ac on cap (su-35/mig-31) enough? Q5 will friendly asw patrols actually use dipping sonar?sprint an…

Some interesting web sites, for those looking for reasons why countries might go to war with one another... http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/...verfishing.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing http://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/awr/dec99/Feature2.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in...sis/default.stm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1128-04.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_resources I understand that the phrase "May you live in interesting times" is a curse. I fear that we may have some very interesting times ahead. Mark

I'm not getting much help from the manual on this. After entering a leg or two, I hit Enter Alternate Path and get the "Enter Points for Alternate Path" showing in my dialog box. However, I can't click on the map or move my active waypoint selection via Prev or Next. I'm a little lost as to what to do on that step. I have a good grasp on the way it works, I just don't quite grasp what I need to do with the interface to get them in. I seriously need a primer on the flow of entering an alternate path. Thanks!

Scenario: Lets go to war Author: Brad Leyte (CV32) Battleset: Westpac Database: HCDB Skill level: Advanced\Expert Involved units: Full (Land\Sea\Air operations) Where can I get it? Here (Harpgamer) Review: First impressions: On first opening the scenario I am greeted with an enormous order of battle and a very wide area of operations. Before engaging the clock it was of the utmost importance that I got dug in to the OOB and the scenario orders. Processing that and setting up my combat units and orders took me in the region of 1 and half to 2 hours. I had never opened a monster scenario, so this was my first taste of such a beast, I was determined to b…

File Name: Approach File Submitter: wmarsh File Submitted: 13 Apr 2008 File Updated: 26 May 2008 File Category: Custom DB Used: HCDA-080523 Authors: wmarsh Battleset: falk82.zip Battleset-Custom: .scz - Custom BS - Custom BS The 4th scenario in my upcoming battleset, this shows the approach of the British Task Force to the Falklands, including the sinking of the General Belgrano and the Sheffield. It works with HCDA and the South Atlantic battleset available on this site. Black Buck Raid is possible, orders are written, and both RN and Arg air contingents have been updated with better information. Click here to download this file

AAR Korean Gulf Designed by Mark Gellis Game Engine: Harpoon Classic 2002 Gold; v. 2003.16b3 Database: HCDB-07-04-14 Mark´s latest scen is a typical Mark Gellis scen: - small is beautiful - all is very neatly arranged - the scen is well-balanced - the timing is very good - the scen is full of subleties Mission: You have to push a convoy from Abu Dhabi to the Arabian Sea. What´s up? You face stiff Irani resistance from aircraft, ships and submarines. How things went for me: In the first attempt; I managed to sink two red SAGs and a sub. I downed six ac, but ran aground with two ships after having lost two others due to missiles. …

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: Battle of Baltim, 9 October 1973, Hypotetical Scenario File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 18 Nov 2012 File Category: Middle East Battle of Baltim, 9 October 1973, Hypothetical 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, to avoid spoilers is better to play the first time the Blue/Israeli side. On the third day of the Yom Kippur War, a couple of days after the Battle of Latakia, on the 8-9 October 1973, a confrontation between Israeli and Egyptian fast missile boats outcome…