Scenario Design & Discussion

File Name: Mark´s H3 ANW Scenarios for the HUD 4 File Submitter: JSF File Submitted: 05 Aug 2014 File Category: BattleSets Mark Gellis has written over 60 scenarios for H3 ANW. He is a master of small, chalenging scenario setups. All his scenarios are bundled, including a dsd-file, thus making a battleset out of them. Enjoy! Click here to download this file

Hello, I´m just back to Harpoon after a pause of several (eight I think) yeras. Though I´m focuse on Harpoon Classic and on my way finishing a scenario I think it coould be fun to design one for ANW, too. Is there anyone left playing Harpoon 3 occasionally?

Friends, Here is a new scenario...a small brawl between Canada and Colombia. Let me know what you think. Thanks. Mark cana20a1.zip

File Name: Serious Syria 2019 File Submitter: Mgellis File Submitted: 15 May 2011 File Updated: 27 Jul 2012 File Category: Scenarios DB Used: HUD3-1.5.5 Authors: Mark Gellis Battleset: No Information Command an E.U. convoy on its way to Syria to provide humanitarian aid. Syria may try to stop you from "aiding the rebels." Comments, observations, and suggestions are welcome. Click here to download this file

File Name: Pason battleset; Pason 1 to 7, for HUD 3 File Submitter: RKoelbach File Submitted: 6 Jun 2010 File Updated: 2 Aug 2010 File Category: BattleSets DB Used: HUD 3 (2009-06-12) Authors: Ralf Koelbach Pason battleset; Pason 1 to 7, for HUD 3, as of 2009-06-12 (you can get it here at HG) for Harpoon ANW 3.9.4. An updated battleset for ANW 3.10, including a new scenario = Pason 8, will be released with ANW 3.10 and the updated HUD 3. Enjoy! Regards, Ralf Click here to download this file

After designing a scenerio and closing the editor, I'll open the game and open the scenerio that I just created. All of the enemy ships will appear on the screen. This seems to happen after being in the scenerio editor and displaying both sides at once. What gives? Thanks, Steve

File Name: Battle of Damascus File Submitter: Steven File Submitted: 15 Oct 2012 File Category: Scenarios A joint service scenerio with USN, USAF and Turkish units tackling a heavily fortified Damascus. Blue side must react towards an aggressive regime by neutralizing WMD sites and a Russian air base while boarding a suspect arms ship and position a helo to recover US Special Forces in downtown Damascus. You must also hunt down the defunct leader of the country. The Russians have sided with Damascus and have conveniently positioned the air base with bombers somewhere in eastern Syria that is moderately guarded with a wing of fighters. It is a distance from the …

I'm looking for feedback on a general "outline" for an alternate history World War III I could use to develop scenarios... November 1, 1983. After the Falklands War, having studied British tactics, American assistance, and the economic effects on the West of fighting a war, the Soviets decide to seize control of Western Europe. Their main approach is threefold: destroy as many NATO bases as possible with lightning strikes, sink as many NATO ships as possible with submarines, and conduct a massive land invasion of Germany and France. Once Germany and France are secure, and the Soviets have control of their ports, the rest of Europe can be negotiated with. N…

File Name: Follow Up 2013 File Submitter: Mgellis File Submitted: 6 Mar 2011 File Category: Scenarios DB Used: HUD3 Authors: Mark Gellis Battleset: No Information This is one of my first attempts to write a scenario for H3, using the HUD3 database. It's pretty simple, but still a bit challenging, I think. Please let me know what you think. Mark Click here to download this file

120 MORE Harpoon scenarios! A total of 250 releases this year! On January 28, 2007, David Ennis released 117 of his personal scenarios for the Harpoon community to enjoy. At the time, this was the record for the single greatest publication of Harpoon scenarios in a single day. As records are wont to do, this one stood for just 66 days. Today, after getting permission and full consent from AGSI, we proudly release 120 Harpoon 3 scenarios for the PlayersDB. These scenarios were originally made for Harpoon2 and have now been re-made for compatibility with Harpoon3 and the PlayersDB with the consent of AGSI. With this release, more functional scenarios are…

Okay, I was bored and I put together some tables for randomly generating scenario ideas. I figured I would share them with folks. Use as many as you need to come up with a good story. Enjoy! I hope they inspire many fun scenarios! First, we need to know when the story takes place: Year of Crisis 1-2: Cold War: 1970 + 1d20 3-4: Turn of the Century: 1990 + 1d20 5-6: Present and Near Future: 2010 + 1d20 (This gives us a range from 1971 to 2030, which is actually beyond the official range of the HUD-4, but allows for more historical and speculative scenarios. There are enough older platforms in the HUD-4 that one can handle a lot of the 1970s p…

File Name: Nimitz in the Med 1981 File Submitter: Mgellis File Submitted: 1 Dec 2011 File Updated: 27 Jul 2012 File Category: Scenarios DB Used: HUD 4 Official Release Authors: Mark Gellis Battleset: No Information What if the shooting down of a couple of Libyan aircraft in 1981 resulted in the President deciding that now was the perfect time to make a major strike against Libya? Click here to download this file

File Name: Alaskan Tango (Version 3) File Submitter: Mgellis File Submitted: 5 Oct 2011 File Category: Scenarios DB Used: HUD3 Authors: Mark Gellis Battleset: No Information A further revision, based on comments from people who have tried out the earlier versions. Be careful what you wish for... Click here to download this file

File Name: The Haruyuki Saga (2015) File Submitter: Mgellis File Submitted: 16 Sep 2013 File Category: Scenarios For my 30th scenario of 2013, I tried something different. This is actually a trio of scenarios, following the Japanese destroyer Haruyuki (DD 128) through one fateful week in 2015, as she is suddenly thrust into the center of a conflict between Japan and North Korea. Since the events take place over the course of only a few days, the Haruyuki and the submarine assisting her, the Wakashio (SS 587) are not able to resupply, and so they will have fewer and fewer weapons as the scenarios progess. This was accomplished by using the logistics editing …

Freek Scheepers and I played Fortress Keflavik, created using the community's favourite database, the Players DB. This must be the longest game I've ever played, to the length that I can't actually remember it all. Freek will be able to cover it in more depth. Some basic events, in no real order: Discovering that "Forgers" are completely useless against fighters Losing my SSGNs fairly quickly Destroying a P-3 with an SA-N-8 from a "Kilo" I launched my "Backfires" on their own when they should have had fighter escort and I probably launched my SSMs too early. I also shouldn't have turned the first wave back, as it cost me twenty hours. I didn't …

Misha loves to play the Russians in all our engagements. Unfortunately, most of the scenarios invariably end in crashes due to their size. After crashing The Merge, Okhotsk, Linchpin from size, we chose 2nd Battle of Tsushima Strait, made with the Harpoon community's favourite database, the PlayersDB. Misha commanded a force of surface ships desperately trying to return home to Vladivostok via the Tsushima Strait while I controlled the Japanese squadron detailed to close that very same Strait. I didn't know what Misha had up his sleeve. I ordered the P-3 Orion and F-15J Eagle fighters aloft to ascertain the situation. The moment they detected MiG-31 Foxho…

File Name: Alaskan Tango (Revsied) File Submitter: Mgellis File Submitted: 20 Sep 2011 File Category: Scenarios DB Used: HUD 3 Authors: Mark Gellis Battleset: No Information A revised version of the Alaskan Tango scenario with some errors resolved... Click here to download this file

File Name: Benin Blockade 1975 File Submitter: Mgellis File Submitted: 29 May 2011 File Updated: 27 Jul 2012 File Category: Scenarios DB Used: HUD3 1.61 Authors: Mark Gellis Battleset: No Information Well, here's another Cold War scenario: French vs. Soviet forces, triggered by a Marxist revolution in Benin, formerly a French colony. I think I did better putting things together this time. Please let me know what you think. Thanks. Click here to download this file

Herman, Freek and I got together yesterday evening for a game of Shadow the Boomer, created especially for the community's favourite databsase, the Players DB. This is a three-sided scenario, with the US, UK and Russia. I took the USA, mistakenly thinking it had the boomer. I found myself in command of an early model Los Angeles SSN, La Jolla. My mission was to find a "Delta" boomer and shadow it. ROEs permitted engagement only if I was fired upon. In a hurry to get into the location and thinking, clearly incorrectly, that I could run deep at 14 knots without being detected, I headed south. Suddenly, I detected two torpedo contacts, USET-80s. I launched back o…

File Name: ColdWar File Submitter: Herman File Submitted: 6 Nov 2008 File Category: Scenarios DB Used: Y2kDB v10.0.0 Authors: Klaus Behrmann Battleset: Stand-alone The End of the Cold War Something went entirely wrong, and it happened so fast that nobody could recall immediately when and where it started. The Soviets were under the impression that NATO was preparing for an attack on the motherland and decreed that securing Iceland for a prolonged war was vital to victory; thus they mobilized each operational vessel in the Northern Fleet and managed to occupy the Faroes as a prelude. NATO then, too, scrambled every available asset in the North Atlantic, and w…