wombat1417
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File Name: Opening Gambit
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 21 Apr 2013
File Category: NACV
From 1991. Escort a convoy and amphibious group from the US to different points on the European coast against Soviet surface, sub and air opposition.
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File Name: Phantoms Over Norway
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 13 Apr 2012
File Category: GIUK
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Unknown
Battleset-GIUK: .sc5 - HDS1 - HDS1
From 1990. A wing of F4s must defend Norwegian bases and a Marine Amphibious Group from destruction.
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File Name: Syrian Cyprus
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 26 Feb 2012
File Category: MEDC
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Maurice Blok
Battleset-MEDC: .sco - EC2003 - EC2003
From 1992. NATO forces try to prevent a Syrian takeover of Cyprus.
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File Name: Canada's Helos
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 12 Feb 2012
File Category: NACV
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Unknown
Battleset-NACV: .sc6 - HDS1 - HDS6
From 1993. ASW exercise contrasting the "new" Merlins with the "old" RCN helos.
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File Name: Kilos in the Gulf
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 5 Feb 2012
File Category: IOPG
DB Used: N/A
Authors: J. Lassen
Battleset-IOPG: .sc8 - HDS1 - HDS8
From 1998?
ASW in the Gulf of Oman: prevent mining the Straits of Hormuz.
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Currently tackling The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman. Was on the 'bucket' list for awhile now.
Read this one about six years ago - I highly recommend it. I've mentioned this before, but Macmillian and Kennedy read this just before the Cuban Missile Crisis kicked off.
Had to read her "The Zimmerman Telegram" in high school, finally got to this one late last year. Massive in detail, definitely NOT light reading: will require your fullest attention, but worth doing. The first chapter, with the crowned heads of Europe at King Edward VII's funeral, is alone worth the price of admission.
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File Name: Another Franco-Prussian War
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 25 Jan 2012
File Category: GIUK
DB Used: N/A
Authors: Unknown
Battleset-GIUK: .sc5 - HDS1 - HDS1
From Unknown, 1993.
Sub vs. surface in the North Sea.
Some minor fiddling to the original ROE.
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When I had a problem with very slow downloads, I eventually found out that I was accidentally running competing firewalls from McAfee AND Windows Defender AND yet a free recommended third party. Once I reduced it to McAfee only, no more problems.
I prefer the boxed game too. I like having a printed manual I can add to the others in the collection.
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File Name: Bring Me The Base Of Diego Garcia
File Submitter: wombat1417
File Submitted: 15 Jan 2012
File Category: IOPG
DB Used: N/A
Authors: LAM
Battleset-IOPG: .sc4 - Orig - Original
From 1991.
As an exercise in Soviet carrier airpower, eliminate said base and a USN CVBG.
NOTE: Using the latest HC2011.013GE will eventually trigger an "AI Stopped Sub" error message that will later stop the game cold. However, It worked fine when I backtracked to the 2009.064 GE.
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Back in the day of Harpoon Classic, I learned the game by playing the Original GIUK scenario "Gauntlet" because the printed guidebook (!) took you through it step by step. There's good, basic practice in aerial surveilance, air-to-surface and surface-to-surface combat, possibly some anti-submarine warface, and very rarely, surface-to-air engagement.
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More fodder, Hollywood this time
http://io9.com/5416779/epic-alien-battlesh...s-on-the-new-et
Can't wait to see what gets done with "Hungry Hungry Hippos".
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"Mr. Roberts" lasted a single season on NBC(?). Roger Smith (Anne-Margaret's husband) played Roberts, and the crusty Francis X. Slattery was the Captain. It was a pretty typical, pedestrian 60's service comedy.
I used to like "Navy Log" in syndication as a kid. Based on true stories, they once did a version of PT-109 before JFK was JFK. I particularty remember the opening sequence with a carrier's crew running onto the flight deck to spell out "NAVY LOG", with a really good theme song that I can still hum.
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I think it's easier to launch a patrol to the area you want and input your own search pattern. That way, you will be told when the aircraft has no movement orders when the pattern runs out of legs, and you'll get the Bingo fuel-RTB warning from the ASA.
That doesn't drop sonobuoys automatically, unfortunately ...
I can usually find the time to pop them out with "."
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I found something in my files from 2003 called "Strike Planner". It's a spreadsheet program that was written for Microsoft Excel, but runs in the Microsoft Works spreadsheet. I never really got used to using it, but it seems to have what Donald Sea Dog needs.
"Enter the Speed, Weapon & target for each Plane. The computer will calculate the launch times starting with the plane taking the longest to get to the target which appear as 0. You launch each strike the specified minutes after."
Give it a whirl.
HCE 2009.097 Patch?
in General
Strange thing - when I did a cut and paste of the serial number from Don, the installer refused to accept it. When I typed it in, there was no problem. So, I'm up and running again.