Harpoon 3 Platform Workbooks

• Submitter
  TonyE
• Submitted
  05/29/2024
• Category
  Tools/Docs

First, I select the aircraft. Then I select the logistic icon and then select the tanker.

What am I doing wrong?

If it is possible.

After each installation of HUCE, H3ANW, H3v364 and H3v394 it appears a message saying that registration key is invalid.

I have started HUCE game engine and scenario editor and they run properly.

I have started H3ANW game engine and runs properly but SCE doesn't.

When trying to edit a new scenario it tells me:

***Error*** Scenario creator: Change in longitude exceeds 180 degrees.

WHat does it means?

How can I edit a new battleset of GIUK?

I am just getting back into Harpoon after a few years. I have the HUD3 and ANW versions and I am trying to put together a Time over Target spreadsheet. I have the very basics now for just a few planes and weapons but I would like to get the planes and weapons databases into a spreadsheet. I need speed info on the aircraft and weapons (harpoons, tomahawk, etc) to work the numbers. It looks like it will take some tweaking but so far I can get close. Way back I had edited the Ship DB adding the MSO, MCM, and MHC. But that was maybe 20 years ago. Can anybody give me a hand with this? Thanks in Advance!

Bob Cashman

The subject in question is an Optional Rule that has been in the Miniature game since I got involved in that side (Harpoon 4 in the late 1990s.) Pilot Experience. Bringing Pilot Experience to Computer Harpoon would greatly increase the realism and allow things like the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, MiG Alley in Korea, or how about the Six Day War in 1967. In each of the examples above, and in many others I can name, Pilot experience is the PIRMARY reason one side defeated the other. For example, the altitudes where the Marianas Turkey shoot occurred, the Zero was a more Dominant aircraft than the Hellcat it fought against. A reverse example is an IJN Flight Ensign in a SINGLE N1K2 Shiden-Kai fighting off an ENTIRE SQUADRON of novice F6F Hellcats, killing one and escaping.

In the Minis version of the game the Pilot experience affects chance of accidents, range performance and to a lesser extent combat performance. Now I cannot represent many of those factors in ANW but there are some that I can expand that were limited in the Mini rules because of the amount of math involved . After all, we play the game on some of the best calculators in the world right?

I will use the Chinese J-20 "Stealth" Fighter as an example of what I am doing.

1) Instead of a single J-20 Entry, there are FOUR J-20 Entries; J-20|Novice, J-20|Experienced, J-20|Veteran, J-20|Ace. Anything after the "|" Symbol will not show up in the basic Harpoon3.exe, only in after action reports and in the editors.

2) Each entry has a Different DATA (ability to escape attack,) Each weapon (be it built in like a mount or launch-able like a Missile,) has it's own version as well. to Describe how this looks:

J-20|Novice has a DATA of 4.0, Gsh-301 (PRC)|Novice has a ATA (Ability to hit an air target) of 2.0, a Rate of Fire of 15, and a maximum number of shots of 4.

J-20|Ace by comparison has a DATA of 5.25, Gsh-301 (PRC)|Ace has an ATA of 4.0, a Rate of Fire of 10, and a Maximum Number of Shots at 7.

In the above Examples, during a Dogfight the Ace version is 4+ times more likely to shoot down the Novice version than the Novice is the Ace.

That being said, as a Scenario designer, this would increase realism of Air combat, at the cost of some small issues.

Issues:

1) Logistics in the game becomes much harder to implement. There is FOUR of every weapon type to stock in Magazines and depots.

2) 4x weapons = 4x work to create weapons (well not really.) but still that is a LOT more entries that need to be tracked, validated, adjusted etc by the Database editor.

3) The Game engine will not allow mixed groups of aircraft to fly together. Thus a J-20|Ace will not be in the same formation as the J-20|Novice. They can be on the same mission together but now on the same “group”

So with that being said, What do you all think about this?

Craig P

Database Editor

Database Auditor

in v3.9 and above the KC-135 tankers that start at Clark AFB start with 0 fuel and therefore just crash on take-off?

I assume this is a bug?

Regards

Andy

Question - noticed there was a Colonial Wars Database - looks like it was last made for 3.6... I can't seem to find a valid database download - they have it on the old Matrix site but it's a bad link and just loops... Is it worth finding - or - is 3.6 lacking in many of the newer features ? Is it available anywhere ? Wouldn't mind trying some older scenerios... Any suggestions ?

Regards,
Scott

I have the following Harpoon games loaded on my computer:

Command Wargame of the Year Edition
Harpoon 3 Advanced Naval Warfare
Harpoon 3 ANW v394
Harpoon 3 Ultimate Advanced Naval Warfare
Harpoon 3 v3.6.3
HUCE

I'm hoping for scenario recommendations for the period

covering the 1980's and the present time dealing with

US vs Soviet/Russia or

US vs China

thank you

Dennis

USN 1963-1966

However, all the links seem dead.

Has anybody tried them before? Are they very useful? And where can I get a copy of these utilities?

File Submitter: Steve Caruthers

File Submitted: 11 Mar 2015

File Category: Tools/Docs

When I run a strategy game, I always need to have in front of my eyes, the situation, the development, the progress of the results, the forces available, the weapons range and, at the end, a full report with statistics of the weapons fired, hits, miss etc.
This is why I always help with prepared paper documents, that are of immediate consultation and do not require laborious navigation through the menus of the games to find the information you seek.
As for Harpoon, whenever I decide to play a scenario, I first analyze the order of battle of the player's side, in order to be familiar with the unit I have, their characteristics and their armament to take maximum advantage.
I thought, therefore to provide a sheet, which show graphically all the units, with the parameters of each (speed, damage points, range sensors, weapons, etc.), so as to appreciate graphically the availability of various weapons and their scope.
For this purpose, I attach a sheet of the scenario I'm going to test "The Grand Game" (Harpoon 3 - Standard Database - Regional conflict 1), which is the order of battle of the United Kingdom, against China.
The pdf file is to give an idea of ​​the result, but the original file is in excel (*:xls) and lends itself to quickly copy and move all the icons, saving time in the preparation of the paper, in relation to other scenarios.
If anyone is interested, I can send the file to excel, where I have already compiled several sheets with NATO units, USSR, INDIA, FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN, USA ect.

Stebas.

Click here to download this file

Thank, Steve.