Scenario Design & Discussion

File Name: Attack of the Aliens (tiny scenario) File Submitter: TonyE File Submitted: 5 Jun 2011 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB-110531 Authors: TonyE Battleset-GIUK: .scm - EC2003 - EC2003 The aliens have landed in the mid 1980s! Can the US Navy save London? This is a very small scenario to see how to defeat a limited alien force with one of my favorite CVBGs from the late Cold War. Click here to download this file

Finished up Mark Gellis' latest scenario, Hungry Lion, last evening. Here's a short AAR: This is a traditional convoy scenario, in which you (as the Blue player) are tasked with moving a large number of ships across the pond (i.e. the Atlantic) from CONUS to Europe. It is also primarily a submarine warfare scenario, and like all traditional ASW, tended to comprise long periods of little activity punctuated by moments of sheer terror. The submarine threat to my convoy(s) was very real from the outset. Though I managed to escape the loss of any of my "merchies", the escorts suffered for their efforts in probing the unknown waters ahead. Shore based maritime patr…

AAR: Thunder Dragon [spoiler Alert] By Brad Leyte Operation Thunder Dragon was in full effect; the hunting and trapping of an entire USN carrier battlegroup. I checked my forces and found that I had a fair number of aircraft and ships. Unfortunately, most of them were near or past obsolescence. However, to paraphrase Comrade Stalin, "Quantity is a quality in and of itself." My patrol assets were sent aloft immediately in hopes of catching a sniff of electronic emissions from the CVBG. Intelligence had reported that there was a CVBG in the area, but could not be more specific. Almost right after takeoff, the enemy emissions were detected smack in the midd…

File Name: The Krasnodar Incident, late April 2016. Historical Scenario/Alternate History Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 01 May 2016 File Category: GIUK The Krasnodar Incident, late April 2016. Historical Scenario/Alternate History 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: The new diesel-electric submarine B-265 Krasnodar with the Russian Navy Saint Andrew's Cross flag raised on her commisioning day 5 Novembe…

File Name: Allegro (Part 2 of 3) File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 07 Apr 2007 File Category: WestPac Scenario 2 of 3: This one looks at a PRC/Taiwan battle without actually involving the Taiwan Strait! Your primary mission will be to guide your SAG and Amphib groups from Taiwan past enemy units from the Chinese and Philipino sides trying to locate them. Use every trick you can think of because once you're spotted it can easily become a slugfest. (Released February 2006). Click here to download this file

AAR: The Java Sea Incident [spoiler Alert] A Harpoon Classic scenario By Mark Gellis I had no idea where the convoy was coming from. Intelligence and my orders hinted that it might be coming around the east side of Borneo, but I could not be certain. Therefore, I had to plan for patrols on both sides of Borneo until it could be located. Even in the age of satellite photography, it isn’t easy to locate a convoy of ships that don’t want to be found. Tengah quickly launched her E-2 Hawkeye as it had the best sensors around. I couldn’t allow it to venture far from Tengah since her poor speed and the low loiter time available for her escorts would leave her easy pr…

I was bored tonight, so I went through the HDS3 battleset orders, looking at the dates on the orders. Not sure if it's of any value to anyone else, but, here's what I found if you wanted to play these in chronological order by date. This might be an interesting WWIII set to convert to HCDB and newer GE. At least one, maybe two of the scenarios would have to be basically made up from the orders, because they load copies of other scenarios, rather than what is supposed to be there. I know 'Three Days at Mannar" in HDSC is like this. Might also be interesting to think up a matching set of events for the parts of the world HCE couldn't cover back then, like South Afr…

File Name: Duel in the English Channel, mid-February 2015. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 02 Mar 2015 File Category: GIUK Duel in the English Channel, mid-February 2015. 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. Image: HMS Argyll in 2009, UK MoD photo, from Wikipedia Commons. Author: LA(Phot) Caz Davies. This scenario is designed to be played from the Blue/UK side or from the Red/Russia side. Is a very simple and introductory scenario, but you should play first a few times the Blue/UK side to avoid possible spoile…

I was glad to see that the new HCDB includes more Coast Guard ships (and, in general, we've seen a lot of patrol boats added to the HCDB). But now I'm wondering how to use them in scenarios. They are, of course, for guarding the coast. So you send them after naughty fishing boats who violate our fisheries (although unless they have escorts, this isn't much of a challenge). Or you stop smugglers of one kind or another. By the way, I figured out one way to do a "rescue" mission. You can use a neutral Green vessel, without a programmed course, to represent the vessel that you have to save. You won't know where it is at first so you actually have to search for…

File Name: ASW Forms, Harpoon 3 Battles of the Third World War, late August 1991. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 28 Oct 2017 File Category: WestPac ASW Forms, Harpoon 3 Battles of the Third World War, late August 1991. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Western Pacific 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. Image: Only three years later of the scenario date and to show the forces concentration level in the region, a 24 May 1994 aerial view of the United States Fleet Activities Yokosu…

File Name: Blockade, Part 2 File Submitter: Warhorse64 File Submitted: 14 Aug 2011 File Category: MEDC DB Used: HCDB-110531 Authors: Warhorse64 Battleset-MEDC: .sco - EC2003 - EC2003 Part 2: Meatgrinder in the Med In the summer of 2019 Iran's nuclear weapons program was finally about to bear fruit. Israel used nuclear weapons to halt it. Outraged, the world imposed a complete embargo on Israel. The United States decided to break the embargo, by force if necessary. In a stunning display of martial prowess, the US Navy and Air force blasted their way across the Atlantic Ocean, sweeping all opposition from their path as they shepherded a relief convoy thr…

File Name: Invasion File Submitter: wmarsh File Submitted: 15 May 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 opening Argentinian Invasion. Now includes the ex-Gearing "Comodoro Py" Click here to download this file

File Name: The Price Of Tomatoes File Submitter: wombat1417 File Submitted: 30 Jan 2011 File Updated: 1 Feb 2011 File Category: GIUK DB Used: N/A Authors: Unknown Battleset-GIUK: .sc5 - HDS1 - HDS1 From 1993. Prevent an invasion of Iceland while avoiding being blown to bits by CIS airpower. Click here to download this file

Hey, Jan, check out the news about Israel's planned development of a new radar satellite in the Current Events section. I think this could be tied in to your scenario idea about a potential conflict between Iran and France after an Israeli strike against an Iranian nuclear powerplant (shades of Osirak). You could suppose some French technical assistance in the design and development of the Israeli TecSAR radar satellite, which is then instrumental in confirming Israeli concerns about Iranian WMD intentions. Then, after the Israeli pre-emptive strike, Iran has some more overt reasons to be angry with France. Just some brainstorming to help (hopefully) you along…

Has anyone ever seen the Red side AI use the Oscars against the airfields? Just a few shipwrecks sent the right way and you get all those Orions and Nimrods out of the way.

File Name: Pushover File Submitter: TeTeT File Submitted: 23 Nov 2010 File Category: Custom DB Used: 65-80db Authors: TeTeT Battleset: Ind Battleset-Custom: .scz - Custom BS - Custom BS A small scenario during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the NVA. Blue airforce is tasked to destroy a small number of tanks, while red airforce should hinder them. One question remains open: The A-7 Corsairs have Maverick in their loadout, not sure if this was eligible in 1972. Click here to download this file

File Name: Task Force Rybakov File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 8 Dec 2008 File Updated: 8 Dec 2008 File Category: South Africa DB Used: HCDB-081124 Authors: Brad Leyte Battleset-South Africa: .scu - CDB - CDB Task Force Rybakov A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the South Africa Battleset. This scenario is intended for play by the RED side only. This scenario is a RED side sequel to my earlier scenario, Sixth Battle, which of course is a tribute to a favorite novel of mine, The Sixth Battle by Barrett Tillman. Although some effort has been expended at recreating the battle depicted in that book, I have also taken varied some of the…

File Name: "Diesel Boats Forever": the great USS Grenadier Soviet ballistic missile submarines chase, May 1959. Historical Scenario. File Submitter: broncepulido File Submitted: 27 Jun 2016 File Category: GIUK "Diesel Boats Forever": the great USS Grenadier Soviet ballistic missile submarines chase, May 1959. Historical Scenario. A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for EC2003 Battle for the GIUK Gap Battleset and the HCCW-140314 Cold War 1950-1975 Platform Database. This scenario is designed with advanced Scenario Editor and to be run with HCE 2015.008+ or later. Image: USS Grenadier (SS-525) in 1951, after the Guppy II conversion (Guppy stands for Grea…

Building on Mark Gellis' free idea giveaway thread, how about the following ... A scenario author builds a storyline and Red OOB. Potential players choose the player controlled Blue OOB and its disposition/posture from a list of available options. Scenario author completes the scenario based on their choices. Players play out the scenario, either for pure enjoyment or a friendly competition of sorts. Thoughts?

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