CV32

Yep, still goes under GIUK. Your battleset particulars are in the posted info.

You've probably inserted some characters in the text which aren't recognised by the Orders Writer. It has some difficulties with characters other than the usual alphanumerics. I suggest you review the text with this in mind. Found it, although you didn't upload it under a specific Battleset. I fixed it, and should appear ok now, but please note this for future. And thanks again for the scenario!

File Name: Bear Goes South File Submitter: CV32 File Submitted: 29 Nov 2008 File Updated: 22 Feb 2009 File Category: GIUK DB Used: HCDB Authors: jugasa77 Battleset-GIUK: .sc1 - Orig - Original Bear Goes South - Original GIUK Battleset (*.sc1). War has begins. This is a large engagement between NATO and Soviets. The objetives are to sunk as many enemy ships and subs as you can. Also you can destroy enemy bases. Soviet side can achieve tactical victory with a patrol around Reikjavik (Iceland) or Orland (Norway) for 48 hours, while they can assault the coast. Click here to download this file

Also eBay or similar site. Another good option is to post a message on one of the many Yahoo mailing lists such as Admiralty Trilogy, H4_Zulu_Station, or A_willing_foe.

Happy to receive new scenarios, jugasa. Thanks! You need to upload your scenario files (zipped) at the Downloads section rather than attach them to your post. Please do so and then I'll delete the attachment here. The Orders Writer works very well. What was your problem with it? Maybe we can get it worked out for you. The AI won't delay its attacks until achieving air superiority. You need to work that into the scenario yourself. I'm sure if the attacks aren't working, someone will pipe up and let you know.

Have you assembled the scenario files into a single zipped file?

It attempted a couple of posts but then got a virtual GBU-12 down the ventilation shaft.

No, he means documentation about how the various calculations and data fields work in the HCE code. Its something we've been sorely needing for a long time.

eBay or similar.

It has happened on occasion, but not often. I didn't get anything, so let me know who it was from (unless I find out first), so I can drop a PGM on em.

Yup.

Not sure how I missed this one. Good review! (yes, I'm biased ) Link

I doubt that there's much the Pakistanis will be able to do to assuage the concerns of the Indians either, but these things do tend to take on a life of their own sometimes. And these two have serious history.

From Stratfor Red Alert - Possible geopolitical consequences of the Mumbai attacks 27 November 2008 Summary If the Nov. 26 attacks in Mumbai were carried out by Islamist militants as it appears, the Indian government will have little choice, politically speaking, but to blame them on Pakistan. That will in turn spark a crisis between the two nuclear rivals that will draw the United States into the fray. Analysis At this point the situation on the ground in Mumbai remains unclear following the militant attacks of Nov. 26. But in order to understand the geopolitical significance of what is going on, it is necessary to begin looking beyond this event at what will follow. Though the situation is still in motion, the likely consequences of the attack are less murky. We will begin by assuming that the attackers are Islamist militant groups operating in India, possibly with some level of outside support from Pakistan. We can also see quite clearly that this was a carefully planned, well-executed attack. Given this, the Indian government has two choices. First, it can simply say that the perpetrators are a domestic group. In that case, it will be held accountable for a failure of enormous proportions in security and law enforcement. It will be charged with being unable to protect the public. On the other hand, it can link the attack to an outside power: Pakistan. In that case it can hold a nation-state responsible for the attack, and can use the crisis atmosphere to strengthen the government’s internal position by invoking nationalism. Politically this is a much preferable outcome for the Indian government, and so it is the most likely course of action. This is not to say that there are no outside powers involved — simply that, regardless of the ground truth, the Indian government will claim there were. That, in turn, will plunge India and Pakistan into the worst crisis they have had since 2002. If the Pakistanis are understood to be responsible for the attack, then the Indians must hold them responsible, and that means they will have to take action in retaliation — otherwise, the Indian government’s domestic credibility will plunge. The shape of the crisis, then, will consist of demands that the Pakistanis take immediate steps to suppress Islamist radicals across the board, but particularly in Kashmir. New Delhi will demand that this action be immediate and public. This demand will come parallel to U.S. demands for the same actions, and threats by incoming U.S. President Barack Obama to force greater cooperation from Pakistan. If that happens, Pakistan will find itself in a nutcracker. On the one side, the Indians will be threatening action — deliberately vague but menacing — along with the Americans. This will be even more intense if it turns out, as currently seems likely, that Americans and Europeans were being held hostage (or worse) in the two hotels that were attacked. If the attacks are traced to Pakistan, American demands will escalate well in advance of inauguration day. There is a precedent for this. In 2002 there was an attack on the Indian parliament in Mumbai by Islamist militants linked to Pakistan. A near-nuclear confrontation took place between India and Pakistan, in which the United States brokered a stand-down in return for intensified Pakistani pressure on the Islamists. The crisis helped redefine the Pakistani position on Islamist radicals in Pakistan. In the current iteration, the demands will be even more intense. The Indians and Americans will have a joint interest in forcing the Pakistani government to act decisively and immediately. The Pakistani government has warned that such pressure could destabilize Pakistan. The Indians will not be in a position to moderate their position, and the Americans will see the situation as an opportunity to extract major concessions. Thus the crisis will directly intersect U.S. and NATO operations in Afghanistan. It is not clear the degree to which the Pakistani government can control the situation. But the Indians will have no choice but to be assertive, and the United States will move along the same line. Whether it is the current government in India that reacts, or one that succeeds doesn’t matter. Either way, India is under enormous pressure to respond. Therefore the events point to a serious crisis not simply between Pakistan and India, but within Pakistan as well, with the government caught between foreign powers and domestic realities. Given the circumstances, massive destabilization is possible — never a good thing with a nuclear power. This is thinking far ahead of the curve, and is based on an assumption of the truth of something we don’t know for certain yet, which is that the attackers were Muslims and that the Pakistanis will not be able to demonstrate categorically that they weren’t involved. Since we suspect they were Muslims, and since we doubt the Pakistanis can be categorical and convincing enough to thwart Indian demands, we suspect that we will be deep into a crisis within the next few days, very shortly after the situation on the ground clarifies itself.

Sounds like you have everything. I don't think there ever was a hex grid map, but I could be wrong. (Its been some years since I picked up Harpoon 4). One of the paper rules juggernauts, like pmaidhof, would know.

The DB editing guide will provide plenty of guidance, but if you're interested in the theory behind the rules, a copy of the Harpoon paper rules would be invaluable. They are available from Clash of Arms, and since there are plenty of Spanish players in the Harpoon 4 groups, I don't expect your location would be an obstacle.

Too funny not to share ... http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-20-stupide...-vehicles-ever/

jugasa77, if you had a copy of the Harpoon 4.1/High Tide paper rules, I expect you would find this much easier to understand.

From Defense Aerospace Pakistan to Buy German Submarines (Source: Deutsche Welle German radio; issued November 26, 2008) Pakistan, which has relied on French defense suppliers, is buying German-made submarines for the first time, but is still technologically behind its nuclear rival India. Pakistan has formally agreed to buy three Type 214 German submarines under deal worth more than $1 billion (773.7 million euros) that the two countries are expected to sign within the next few months, according to a media report on Wednesday. The German shipbuilding company Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH (HDW) will construct the diesel-electric submarines in a shipyard in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, Pakistan's English-language daily The News reported. "The commercial contract has been finalized up to 95 percent," said Walter Freitag, the chief executive officer of the HDW, the largest conventional submarine maker in the world. Freitag, who was interviewed by the newspaper during a defense products exhibition called IDEAS 2008 in Karachi, said that once the contract is signed, the first submarine would be delivered to the Pakistan navy in 64 months, with the rest delivered in the following 12 months. Pakistan has traditionally relied on French submarines for its naval defense. This is first time that Karachi has opted for German boats. Earlier, the French firm Armaris, a subsidiary of Thales group, had lobbied for the sale of three Marlin type submarines. The company delivered the last one to Pakistan in 2006. "The Pakistan navy understands submarines and ours are the best," Freitag said. "We use higher grade steel material, which allows greater diving depth. Also, we have fuel cell AIPs and can integrate Harpoons with the Type 214." The non-nuclear Type 214 is a 65-meter-long boat which can dive more than 25 meters, but it lacks the technology to avoid detection. Pakistan's quest for new submarines was prompted by its traditional nuclear-armed rival India reaching a 1.5-billion-euro deal in 2005 with a French company for seven Scorpion submarines.

I should add that not all aircraft in the HCDB yet have the ECM that they should. I've been working through the entries very slowly but eventually you'll see this reflected in some way or another.

From DefenseNews San Antonio Underway After Repairs in Bahrain By andrew scutro Published: 25 Nov 17:57 EST (22:57 GMT) NORFOLK, Va. - Nearly a month after limping into Bahrain with extensive seepage from the lube oil system for its main propulsion diesel engines, the amphibious transport dock San Antonio got back underway Nov. 25. "Repairs have corrected all deficiencies and the lube oil system has returned to fully operational status," said Pat Dolan, spokeswoman for Naval Sea Systems Command. "The oil leaks were attributed to inadequate pipe supports, poor welding, material selection and insufficient [quality assurance]." Dolan said a "root-cause analysis" is ongoing, and some technicians from the original team of more than 30 who met the ship in Bahrain on Oct. 31 remain aboard. She said the repair job costs are about $1.4 million. San Antonio's 25-day pit stop began about two months into its maiden deployment. The ship left Norfolk late August with the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group. While lauded for its design, the first ship of the class has been the subject of criticism for arriving to the fleet late, incomplete and $1 billion over budget, at $1.8 billion. The ship's deployment was delayed two days due to a broken stern gate. On Nov. 24, Navy Secretary Donald Winter visited the ship in Bahrain before it restarted its deployment, taking time to personally examine the repair work. He has taken a personal interest in the San Antonio's troubled debut in the fleet, and has publicly criticized Northrop Grumman for the ship's condition when it was delivered incomplete to the Navy. In the aftermath of LPD 17's breakdown, inspectors from NavSea, Naval Surface Force and regional maintenance commands have gone aboard the follow-on ships in the class - New Orleans, Mesa Verde, Green Bay and New York - to inspect welds in the lube oil systems. Engineers did not find systemic problems, but they did find faulty welds, according to sources. Dolan said those class-wide reviews are ongoing.

From DefenseNews Russian Ships Arrive in Venezuela for Exercises By BEATRIZ LECUMBERRI, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Published: 25 Nov 12:49 EST (17:49 GMT) LA GUAIRA, Venezuela - Venezuela welcomed Russian warships Nov. 25 at a northern port near Caracas for a week of joint maneuvers with its navy, an activity not seen in the region since the Cold War. The ships, including the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great and destroyer Admiral Chabankenko, arrived at La Guaira to coincide with a two-day visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Venezuela, the strongest U.S. critic in the region. The exercises, dubbed VenRus 2008, would take first take place in dock and then at sea on December 1, Vice Adm. Luis Morales Marquez, a Venezuelan operations commander, told journalists here. The aim was to "strengthen links of friendship and solidarity with the Russian fleet and the Bolivarian national armed forces," Marquez said. The oil-rich nation's President Hugo Chavez said the maneuvers were not a provocation, but an exchange between "two free, sovereign countries that are getting closer," at a news conference late Monday. "We carried out maneuvers with Brazil recently, with France, with the Netherlands and now with Russia," Chavez said. Medvedev was due to arrive Nov. 26 and was expected to visit the ships with Chavez on Thursday, before leaving for communist Cuba. Analysts see the Russian leader as bringing a defiant message to Washington's doorstep, in the wake of Russian outrage at U.S. plans to install a strategic missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, and support for the brief Georgia war in August. "If the Venezuelans and the Russians want to have, you know, a military exercise, that's fine, but we'll obviously be watching it very closely," U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Nov. 24. "I don't think there's any question about who ... the region looks to in terms of political, economic, diplomatic and as well as military power," McCormack added. The U.S. has expressed concern, however, about Russian arms supplies to the oil-rich OPEC country. The two countries have signed 4.4 billion dollars in bilateral arms deals since 2005, including radars, 24 Sukhoi-30 planes, 50 helicopters and 100,000 Kalashnikovs. Medvedev was expected to expand arms deals during his visit, as well as economic and energy ties, including plans for a joint civilian nuclear reactor. Some 1,600 Russian forces traveling on four Russian ships joined 700 Venezuelans for the exercises. Venezuela was due to mobilize three frigates, an amphibious warfare ship and eight patrol boats, as well as Sukhoi planes recently purchased from Russia. Marquez suggested more exercises could take place in Russian waters at a later date. "It's not difficult for us to go to those waters and it would be very interesting," Marquez said. A Russian naval spokesman said in Moscow that the exercises would include operation planning, helping ships in distress and supplying ships on the move. "Until a few years ago, we did a lot of maneuvers with the United States. Now we don't do maneuvers with the United States, of course. We got out of that defense system and we're creating our own system of defense," Chavez said Nov. 24. In September, two Tu-160 Russian strategic bombers carried out training for several days in Venezuela. "Nations frequently exercise with each other. Russia is free to exercise peacefully with anyone that they want to exercise with," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Nov. 24. "But also people note through these exercises the company that nations keep." Medvedev's tour began in Peru where he signed a series of economic and political accords before traveling to regional economic powerhouse Brazil.

Interesting test. Could you post the various target aircraft ATA/DATA values and any ECM in their respective loadouts too? That would give us an even better look at why the numbers are what they are.

Palex80, I fixed up your scenario submission at the Downloads section. Added more detail to the description (from your orders), so that potential players can see what the scenario is about. And it is apparent that your scenario uses the HCDB database, so I added that detail as well. Btw, you should remove the unnecessary 'backup file' (appears as *.BK* in your zip) when uploading the zipped files.