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Silent Hunter´s AARs displaying his way through the HC versions are fascinating. I will start a similiar walkthrough, based on the H3 version.

A Beta version of the ANW Patch 3.9.0 is now available for those willing to test out experimental software.

Greetings All, I just wanted to make everyone aware of an issue that may arise when creating new Battlesets for ANW. The Battleset name field is restricted to 25 character spaces. Exceeding this limit will cause both a corrupted display in the Scenario editor and a crash/freeze when attempting to make use of the editor's Batch Rebuild feature. I've attached a screenshot that, displays the Battleset name field in the BattlesetCreator.exe notated to illustrate the issue. Letters, numbers, symbols and spaces all count toward the 25 character limit. Please beware of this issue as Both Ralf and I have gone through enough hair pulling and gnashing of teeth for every…

Harpoon 3.9.4 scenerio editor using the HUD 3 DB. While adding a quantity of 8 B1B to an airbase and assigninging a loadout to that aircraft, the loadout screen states that a quantity of 5 of SO#143 is available yet all 8 of the bombers can be loaded. Am I missing something? Thanks, Steve

Under the guise of Stratsims I'm able to leave a dedicated server up and running for a while. IP: 72.21.228.42 Port: 14343 - PDB aka Players Database The server has been stable since I turned MPLogging off in the harpoon3.ini file. Occasionally the clients come unsynched and the clients crash but the server piece itself has been pretty stable. Click image to enter chat. The above image indicates whether there are any people at HarpGamer ready and willing to undertake an Multiplayer mission. The games need not take place on the Stratsims server, this can function as a general meeting place to set up MP games, and requires only a fairly recent web browse…

File Name: BattlesetCreator.zip File Submitter: HUD3 File Submitted: 30 May 2011 File Category: Tools/Docs Authors: Jan-Paul Köster/Darren Buckley This file contains the Harpoon 2/Harpoon 3 ANW BattlesetCreator.exe program, used to create new Battlesets for use in the game. There is also a usage rights statement and short "how to use" description of instructions included in the file. Cheers Darren Click here to download this file

File Name: Database Comparison Utility dbComp File Submitter: TonyE File Submitted: 9 Mar 2007 File Updated: 17 Nov 2011 File Category: Tools/Docs Authors: Jon Reimer, Darren Buckley, Tony Eischens, Russell Sharp MS Access based tool to compare two H3ANW databases. Older versions (i.e. 2006.02) should be used for H2 and pre-3.8.0.0 databases). Current version (2011.02) has only been tested on H3ANW 3.10.1 with H3RE_3_10.mdb Maintained by Tony Eischens Click here to download this file

File Name: RES File Editor HGH3ResText File Submitter: TonyE File Submitted: 9 Mar 2007 File Updated: 4 Jul 2008 File Category: Tools/Docs Authors: Tony Eischens H2/3 RES Text file editor. Also capable of extracting images and any other contents of res files. 2008/07/04 v.1.0.0.5 Bring back direct text editing. 2008/05/16 v.1.0.0.4 Add filter for more image res files (INTRO.RES). In that res file the palette is included with the image so it was wrong to put the default palette onto the image. 2007/04/30 v.1.0.0.3 Add filter for a couple more text res files (TUTORIAL.RES, HELP.RES, CREDITS.RES) Prevent writing of output file if the…

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I figure people should know about it. A detailed discussion of possible game engine issues for the mostly recently released version of H3 ANW appears at... http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95217 These may or may not affect the HUD-4 database, and may or may not be accurate, but I figured it made sense to alert Gunny and others to what a certain person claims to have observed. If nothing else, it may help identify whether certain issues are game engine issues or related specifically to the HUD-4.

A quick question... Using full realism, once you tell a submarine to go on a mission or plot a course, it submerges and you cannot communicate with it anymore. Is there a mission setting that tells submarines "when you reach point X, please come to periscope depth so you can receive further instructions" or are subs effectively out of your control for the duration of the scenario once you give them a mission? Thanks. Mark

Just curious if there was any news about AGSI. Their website, http://www.computerharpoon.com/, simply says "We are having problems with our site ..." but it has been saying that for weeks. Does anyone know anything? Thanks. Mark

Friends, I'd be grateful for a bit of advice. Here's my situation... I've long enjoyed HCE, but Windows 7 (64-bit) does not like the scenario editor! I can play the game, but I can't open the editor. I don't know when, if ever, a version of the scenario editor will be available that is 32-bit (I guess the problem is that the 64-bit windows doesn't like the 16-bit scenario editor) and, along with playing Harpoon, I'd love to keep writing Harpoon scenarios. I'm willing to give Harpoon 3 another try. I got an early version that crashed a LOT and finally gave up in disgust, but that was many years ago. In fact, H3 might be a better program for me to write …

I am just struggling here. I have a B2B with a loadout of AGM 154A and I cannot shoot any land target with the weapons range. The attack dialog screen comes up allowing to select the weapon and target yet the weapon will not fire. What gives? Thanks, Steve

I'm frequently having a situation where I have done significant damage to some members of a task group and I "K" them (denote probable kill) so that auto or blanket attacks use resources to more benefit but then when I get the others hosed down sufficiently I don't seem to be able to undo the "K" tag in order to finish them off. I suppose being a good humanitarian I should leave them in their toothless but living state, however the victory conditions don't seem to share this view. Is there a way to undo the "K" command (I can't find any in the manuals), do people think that the "K" command is to be avoided? Interested to hear experienced opinions. Don

A Harpoon3: ANW Review can be found here: http://www.gamesquad.com/index.php?option=...d=8&aid=155 Anyone wanting to see some of the reported problems can take a look for themselves to decide if they are major or minor. Personally, I regard at least 10-15 of them as outright Game-Killing bugs. * Known Harpoon [ANW] Issues Good work, Scott. :cool: Home of the Harpoon3 PlayersDB

I just decided to dust off my H3 ANW, but first I need to update it with all the latest patches. The problem is, as I enter the download section of Matrix Games website, I can see like 4 updates since my version (3.9.0.) So my question is, which patches do I need to download, and which already contain previous patches. Or do I need to download and install all of them?

Hi Folks, Question - how do I use tankers for air-ops ? Do I include the tankers with a strike package ? Do I stage them at the half way point ? Any help appreciated... Regards, Scott

Hi Folks, 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

This is more about overall approaches rather than specific scenarios or database entries and so on, so I thought it belonged here in the "general" category. I want it to be a more open-ended discussion... What's next for H3? What would you like to do or see with H3/ANW in the future? What aspects of the game would you like to explore or see explored by scenario designers? I'm personally interested in plausible Cold War "what if" scenarios, perhaps involving a medium-sized scenario (several ships but not a whole fleet, etc.), and perhaps involving NATO or the Soviets, but not necessarily against each other, but against less commonly considered opponents. Things…

Hello, I have been installing again H3ANW and I can't run the scenario editor. 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.