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While I'm waiting for Ultimate edition to go on sale, I am desperately trying to get the last mileage out of my HCE. However now I have encountered a strange problem. I can play the battleset scenarios fine, but when I try to tweak them in the scenario editor, the game crashes with an Annex error. Even small changes like moving a carrier will produce a crash. This install is using an outdated database (2009.050) However the battlesets are playable, its just a mystery why I cant edit. I've tried to install the HC2018 Beta database, but it just destroys the install and says it has expired. Any help deeply appreciated to help me get my Harpoon fix until the eventual holiday sale.

Update: I managed to find the Matrix ftp site. There is no newer file than 2009.050 there. So where do I get the 2015.027 file I need before I can update with HC2018.002 and HC2020.009?

Thank you for your reply. I went to Matrix games to locate the prerequisite 2015.027 patch. The forums there direct to the "Official Harpoon Commander's Edition Website" - http://www.advancedgaming.biz/hce which is dead/down. Their main page https://www.matrixgames.com/game/larry-bonds-harpoon-commanders-edition has a cookie popup that I am unable to pass, even after clicking accept tons of times, trying different browsers and computers.

I just fired up the old HCE after many years and noticed that a lot of the unit pictures are missing. First I thought I'd ask how to replace/add them, but perhaps a patch fixes the issue? I looked up and apparently my version is 2009.043.... Where are the patches? I see 2017 is mentioned on the forums. Additionally are there any scenario sites alive apart from this one? I stumble over a lot of dead sites/links out there, and even a lot of the harpgamer links are dead.