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SPOILERS APPLY Finished this great scenario a while ago. The luck of the draw gave me two subs, A Dutch diesel sub and a modern English SSN. I ended up with a victory, but really the bad guys won- I was careless with my submarines, heading straight for the target, and they both were sunk. I did "ration" my long range aircraft ordnance, resulting in the loss of a number of Tornadoes, but did sink the carrier with aircraft after awhile. This is a well crafted scenario, thanks Broncepulido for a great job.
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File Name: Grouch.zip File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 12 Dec 2016 File Category: GIUK Oscar the Grouch Sequel to "Eviction Notice". You have a stinky smoking disgrace of an antiquated carrier to defend the Motherland. And some nice surprises. BLUE only, for GE 2015.026 and later. This celebrates Brad's new HCDB2, thanks to all for all the hard work. Click here to download this file
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i.e, more targets to destroy before all radars are gone. Got it.
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If there is no change in gameplay, I think it should not be a priority. Getting the ships/aircraft/loadout/weapons details sorted to Brad's satisfaction should be the first thing. I'm sorry to say that the next few years will provide us with many scenarios to model. Thanks!
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AAR- Tesseract SPOILERS APPLY This is a great scenario. It's pace is moderate, but it is a challenge. I achieved minvic after about 18 hours of game time. Things started out with ballistic missile attacks against the Vietnamese and Philippine bases, damaging them and destroying several aircraft. Curiously, Second Thomas Shoal and the Sierra Madre were not attacked. I ferried most of my A/C to Brunei and Ranai, supplying them with constant trips by my two precious transport aircraft. I did my best to stick with the rules about sorties, but there were a few violations. There are plenty of tankers as well, so that helped a bunch. Then began a long process of attrition of Chinese attack planes, trying to get to my (great) AEW assets above Ranai and Brunei. As I was running up the score against the land base air, J-15's started to appear, coming in with radars off. These proved to be no match for the AMRAAM's of the Thai and SAF F-16's, and an AEW helicopter was detected soon after. The Triton from Anderson was invaluable for this, and I was very careful to keep it safe. The Vietnamese surface force was discovered by a roving fighter, and two ships were sunk by ASM's (I presume). The carrier and escorts were heading due south, until the butcher's bill of Chinese aircraft losses got too big. North of them was the Vietnamese Kilo, and when they retreated they obligingly headed right toward it. Meanwhile, I was using HARM attacks followed by the F-15's to reduce the AAW defenses on the three islands. One by one the SAM's were destroyed, and with their aircraft gone all three are now defenseless against air attack. There was no sign of ASW patrols in the carrier group, and the Kilo sunk the carrier with 4x53-65K torpedos. Attacks against the escorts were unsuccessful, and with sonars active the sub was located and sunk. Status at this time: The Phillipines have lost 3-S260 and all of the OV-10's, mostly to missile attacks. The TA-50's were ferried to Brunei, where two were shot down defending the base. Vietnamese aircraft also suffered, with 1-SU-27 and all of the Mig-21's being lost in missile attacks, and three more SU-27's lost in an ill advised iron bomb attack. Two Thai F-16's were lost to fuel exhaustion. At this point, I can't say I have "won", because there is still 300 nm of submarine infested sea to traverse before the ships get to the islands. But their destruction is assured, so I may move on to other things, like "Niceguy", perhaps. It was great fun to put together an air force out of the motley assortment provided. Thanks for a great scenario!
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Brad, I agree. For the USA to bully Canada into purchasing aircraft that would be more valuable to the US (as an ally) than to Canada is unconscionable. How about something in a nice Gripen NG and a few more tankers?
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Thank you all. This old game has come such a long way under your care.
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http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2016/05/06/New-US-Navy-testing-of-Norwegian-missile/6411462559383/
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Requests for the HCDB (Official DB of HCE) and HCDB2
rainman replied to Mgellis's topic in Database Design & Discussion
1) I'll bet that you are already on this, but how about the SM-6 ASuW weapon, maybe 12 per DDG or CG, DP around 12-16, range 125 NM? http://news.usni.org/2016/02/04/secdef-carter-confirms-navy-developing-supersonic-anti-ship-missile-for-cruisers-destroyers 2) Also, RGM 158C LRASM-A (VLS) range 380NM, AGM 158C (B1B, (12) F/A 18 (2)), range 450 NM, DP 76+ http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.displayPlatform&key=A947D40B-2498-4064-8EB9-6AFB47369DDB 3) Should the Chinese PL-10 have a range of 32 NM or so? Current 15 NM range makes PLAAF Flankers easy pickings... THANKS -
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File Name: Eviction Notice File Submitter: rainman File Submitted: 21 Mar 2016 File Category: NACV Scenario for the NACV Battleset, Harpoon Version 2015.26 or later required. Defend Iceland from attack (again, but with a twist). BLUE only. Duck. Click here to download this file
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So: If I upgrade my GE to 2015.27 and reload a saved game, will it behave properly, or should I finish/abort my game before I upgrade? Thanks
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Whatever happened to the Battleset Builder, available in older versions?
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This sounds great. Thanks for everything. I like all of these ideas, particularly filtering platforms by time period (as is presently done with some ships)
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I wish I had time. Looks hard and fun.
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Scenarios built with HCE 2015.008+
rainman replied to rainman's topic in Scenario Design & Discussion
Aha. Yep. Thanks!!!! -
Scenarios built with HCE 2015.008+
rainman replied to rainman's topic in Scenario Design & Discussion
The scenario runs fine now. It's just that I have the old SE still after installing Tony's update. from http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?/topic/2049-current-files/. Am I getting the right update? Maybe this should go to another thread, sorry. -
Scenarios built with HCE 2015.008+
rainman replied to rainman's topic in Scenario Design & Discussion
Got the GE upgraded, but not the SE. Am I doing something wrong? -
I'm having trouble getting this [Tesseract scenario] to run on HCE, original GE. Anybody else?
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Here's a real simple (I think) modification. The AI will automatically turn on radars when a) it thinks a unit is detected, or upon firing of AAM's, even if they do nor require a radar for guidance. This defeats stealth aircraft advantages, and makes surface group identification very easy for the human player.
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Brad is correct about the slippery slope, and I have made some very accurate scenarios that are really boring. Please remember that I said I'm just a fussy old man. A scenario here is a work of art, just as a painting or a song is. You are doing great work in keeping this old game alive, and I'll enjoy everything you do. So please don't take my comments too seriously.
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Here's a small thing from a fussy old man.. There are some Bergamini class frigates included in the carrier group. These were retired in the 1980's. A second "Bergamini" and "Fasan" class are coming into service in the 2010's. Maybe you meant to use these? I'm really enjoying the NACV scenario, nice work, thanks.
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SPOILERS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm having a nice time with this one too. I did tinker with it, reducing my A/C from 405 to 379, losing the SU-50 and a few other things. if that's not OK, my apologies, and if it is, I can send it along to you for your perusal. (I did not peek). The plentiful AEW assets provided make this fairly low stress, although nice and busy. I'm ahead in A/C losses 165 to 16 at 9:19 to go, but no victory yet. It seems like I have shot down 500 cruise missiles so far. No damage to ships or bases so far. I did get lucky when a poorly planned Storm Shadow volley distracted the RED SAM's long enough for me to shoot with the Oscar, hitting an American carrier with three Shipwrecks. She's in bad shape and out of the fight I think. This is great fun, thanks for making it.
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Requests for the HCDB (Official DB of HCE) and HCDB2
rainman replied to Mgellis's topic in Database Design & Discussion
A tiny thing- can you add #55591 (Intercept-2) to F-14A and F-14D?