CV32

That's a set of images for Rene Haar's custom HC xx to xx series databases. It will replace your commondb.rsr files (where the images are stored) in your HCE/HUCE directory. I cannot vouch for whether it will work with the standard/official HCDB database and user scenarios created for that database.

Sounds like your platform display is functional, but just not showing images/pictures for every ship, aircraft, etc? If so, this is because we just don't have images available for every platform, due to intellectual property issues.

Jeep carriers? Really? I wonder sometimes if folks oppose the aircraft carrier (though I am aware, of course, that the authors here are not against the aircraft carrier concept per se) simply because it makes for great press.

LOL. Didn't even get an honourable mention, I notice. Though I suppose its in some ways a part of No.5.

From Proceedings, May 2011 issue [excerpt]

Anyone have a decent source on the armament layout (ESSM and RAM) for the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)? May 10: This information is elusive, it seems?

From Foreign Affairs [excerpt]

The consensus seems to be that a MH-60K modified for 'stealth' would necessitate removal of the refueling probe, though demodification or remodification could obviously vary for each and every potential mission.

From Reuters [excerpt]

No problem. We're glad to help.

Yep, someone else does. From Joint Forces Quarterly, Issue 60, First Quarter 2011, an article entitled Long-range conventional strike: a joint family of systems, by Robert P. Haffa Jr and Michael W. Isherwood. A suggestion to expand the capacity of the Virginia via ... [excerpt]

From Globe & Mail [excerpt]

Yep, I hope its clear. I wrote it. What it means is this: The stock scenarios for EC2003 and Westpac battlesets need the HCDB database to function. You can swap out databases when building scenarios for any of the battlesets, and to play some of the user created scenarios available out there, this will be necessary. You can swap the HCDB back in there when you want to play a stock EC2003 or Westpac scenario. Easy as pie. No, of course not. Just make you have the correct database installed when playing them, i.e. whatever database you used to create the scenario in the first place.

CV32: Potentially useful scenario fodder here, folks. See US Dept of State news release/fact sheet [excerpt]

Maybe you're thinking of all the good stuff you are privy to elsewhere? I was thinking I haven't given away much here. Maybe. I wasn't terribly enthusiastic about casting bait over at Myth Weavers, to be honest. Heh, you know I am pretty low tech.

A poll for guaging what types of multi-player MBX wargames folks prefer or are interested in.

Equally miserable interest shown in this project at Myth Weavers, but I'm not giving up on the idea altogether just yet. Do I need to flesh out the concept a bit more or are folks still too busy to even contemplate playing?

Nonsense, its already badly broken and needs fixin'. Nonsense, we don't need no steenkin' handouts. There are already enough welfare bums hanging around as it is. Woot! Bye, bye LGR! One of the best developments to come out of all this. The sad thing is what a waste of time, money and effort it has been. Nonsense ... the environment has been suffering since we first figured out how to use fire. No political parties to blame. Too fantastical to even comment. Still operating behind enemy lines, unfortunately. Its a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

You see a lot of that now - referencing the Western or NATO codename - at least in the mainstream media.

There's only one HCDA, which you can download here. It is updated regularly, the latest being HCDA-110225.

These new battlesets (Caribbean, South Atlantic, etc) are much, much newer than the database. Hence the large of Installations (what you call 'bases'). However, read on ... This is the key. The scenarios that came with the game use the HCDB database, but you can create new scenarios using either the HCDB or some other custom database. Custom databases such as the HCDA are intended specifically for use in the new battlesets, e.g. Caribbean and South Atlantic. These custom databases are available for download here at HarpGamer. Keep in mind that a 'Battleset' is really just a map that may or may not have scenarios packaged with it. You can create new scenarios for any Battleset with the existing or a custom database.

Snatched from the jaws of those who would rob us of the purity and essence of our natural bodily fluids.

From RIA Novosti [excerpt]

As I am sure you can imagine, Don, this topic has been on my mind for quite some time and its come up now and again in chatter between Tony and I. There are a few platforms that would be freed up by slipping the HCDB out from under the chains of the legacy scenarios, especially in the Installations Annex. However, even if I were to do so, it wouldn't get us quite as far as I would like to go. The real solution lies in breaking through the hard ceiling in the annexes altogether.

I've uploaded an Excel spreadsheet that Tony put together for organizing image files, PicID and res***.bmp filenames, sources and IP details. Find it in the Tools/Mods/Docs section here.