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I'm at work at the moment so I can't say for sure, but it is a set with a scenario in it called "Mine is mine" or very similar, and in the first few scenarios involves the Foch (which dies). The Russians take Keflavik and you have got a whole slew of subs wandering around blowing stuff up.

Hey: After playing the Ultimate edition a few times, I have come to one of two possible conclusions (somewhat related): 1) I suck or 2) The computer rocks. For example. 3 Flankers vs 6 Tornados. I'm protecting an E-3 and in no mood for playing so I let the Flankers have it: 9 SkyFlashes, or three per flanker on average. The flankers, being the argumentative buggers that they are, answer with four radar missiles themselves. Now to my mind, 3 missiles per aircraft is pretty good odds. Yet somehow the flankers get 100% hit rate and all bar one of my missiles miss, the flankers go off and retreat with a mission well done, drinking Vodka all the way back (no statistics available on landing accidents). Meanwhile the remaining 2(!) Tornados remain on station arguing about budget cuts to missile guidance systems while the E3 decides to call it a day. Another example: Keflavik is annoying me. I decide enough is enough and launch 8 F4-G's with a raven and a fighter escort for good measure. At 70nm's, I let Keflavik have it with a broadside of HARM's. My tactic is to blind then and them lob a tomahawk or two downrange. 32 missiles is an awful lot of missiles. Yet Keflavik survives with not a single hit. A third example. My ships are tootling along, sensors off, no ESM gear. All of a sudden, 10 missiles appear out of nowhere and blow them to kingdom come. No idea where it came from, what happened, anything. Yet when I try the same tactic (sneaking up etc), even the captain's dog detects my submarine. Now presumably the game isn't unbalanced, otherwise this forum would be full of complaints (or is it? I didn't really look...). So that means either I'm a colossal idiot (quite possible) or the AI is insanely hard (quite likely) and is rigged against you (also possible). Or there's a patch that applies military budget cuts and I don't know about it. What am I doing wrong? How do you actually win this game without losing 90% of your fighter fleet and having to use Cobra's in an air to air role?

Ok I'll go with that. Thanks very much for that response.

Hey all: Went and bought the Harpoon Ultimate edition and have been enjoying it immensely. However I noticed something that for me is a little offputting. Down the bottom of the game screen there seems to be a scrolling text advertisement for various image packs and the like. It also speaks highly of buying the game, which is a little strange since I bought it online from Matrix games. Is this stuff supposed to be there? Can I turn it off? Thanks Ant