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I can't resist, guess it really is the Super Bug

Firefox range 3000mi CV32: 2592 nm CV32: cruise speed 650 kt CV32: at low altitude CV32: stealthy to radar but vulnerable to IR detection CV32: looks like four short range IR AAMs in cheek weapons bays (like the F-22), call em AA-11 Archers CV32: wow ... http://www.thinkinrussian.org/ CV32: lol, here are the specs ... http://www.thinkinrussian.org/docs/whitepaper_2005.pdf

Version 2006.02 released, fixing prettiness of credits screen and reduces or eliminates program error when using the newest H3RE releases.

Hi Russ, You would only have the EC2000 files if: 1. You own Harpoon Classic 97 2. You were one of the few suckers like me who got EC2000 as part of the last Winharp update (paid). At this time there isn't a legal way to give you the EC2000 battlesets since the images are copyrighted and cannot be distributed. I just had a brainstorm though and wonder if we can't get you the battlesets with no images. Anyway, if you need a scenario or ten converted feel free to zip them up and e-mail them to me (you have my address, got your e-mail earlier).

Thanks Pete! Anyone who tries to paint such tiny beasts must be a little loony , color me jealous nonetheless.

Pete is demonstrating the need for that as yet non-existent SitRep button in the plotter isn't he

Thanks Pete, Brad! I'm counting on all the best in 2007 Happy New Year all!

Congratulations to the 2006 Pooner Jan-Paul Köster and Lifetime Pooner Darrel Dearing! Thank you to everyone who voted. Results (% of votes): 35% JPK 23% Dale Hillier 15% Freek Schepers 11% Dimitris Dranidis aka Sunburn 11% Herman Hum Results (% of votes): 35% Darrel Dearing 23% Herman Hum 19% Dimitris Dranidis aka Sunburn 11% Darren Buckley The Clancy and Bond signed RSR will go out to JPK when he returns from holiday. See images of the gem at: RSR Image 1 RSR Image 2 RSR Image 3 The Bond and Carlson signed Dangerous Ground will go out to Darrel asap. Thanks again to Larry Bond for his signature and Dangerous Ground, and to Brad Leyte for sharing the initial cost of RSR and shipping these books all over creation!

Three days of voting left, this is your last call to vote. Head over to http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php, vote, then talk up your choices back here. Thanks for voting!

Interesting article on the WAA on the Virginias, a search prompted by your article posting. When they say fiber optic sonar, they aren't kidding! www.nrl.navy.mil/content.php?P=04REVIEW177

I threatened to make a simple MP scen over the weekend, and finally got to it today. It is available on the Stratsims server (72.21.228.42 port 14343) for the next few days. There is a 2-player variant and a 3-player variant though the 3-player is the 'correct' scenario, the two player just has one side ripped out. Each player has two ships, a sub, and a helo or two, the goal is to sink two opposing ships and one sub. You do need 3.7.3.0 to play this one. The scenario uses ANWDB for those who are interested in such things. Herman came out to try the two player version with me, Dale also had a quick look at it but I begged out of the second confrontation to step back and give the Player 3 side helos as I forgot that in version 1. Thanks for the games guys. Oh, Herman throunced me thoroughly. I took out his Spruance but he got my Leahy almost immediately and later took out my Spru and Sturgeon with masterful strokes, and he didn't even have helos! I believe outside of the Leahy hit that I fired first on well localized contacts and still I bit it big time. There is one very scared whale out there too, I nearly dropped a Mk46 on it but thankfully rechecked the ID after plopping a number of sonobuoys on it. The scenario is quite quick to play, a few three-player encounters would be great!

Hmm, the forward aspect view shots make me start liking the JSF a little more, from the rear it looks like an F-22 with a weight problem

Thanks Darren, we don't have the biggest H3 crowd here as yet, but I appreciate your posting the message anyway.

Or a release candidate if you ask Uncle Poon, either way it went from release to beta in record time . Anyway, I'm looking forward to taking 3.7.3 beta/RC/release for a spin and hopefully get it on the server soon thereafter.

Hehe Pete, for those of you with clear conscience and lazy fingers, the voting is halfway complete time-wise, head on over to http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php and vote. If you have any difficulties, contact me at pooner@harpoonpages.com and I'll help you get your vote entered. The dually signed copy of Red Storm Rising has returned (signed by both Clancy and Bond!!!). Pete, I'll try to push you towards Darrel Dearing on the lifetime vote. Look at every computer Harpoon version you have, chances are you'll find Darrel's name in there somewhere For the 2006 Pooner there are so many choices, is it David Heath from Matrix for helping keep the dream alive, Jan-Paul for verifying, testing, tolerating, Frans just because he will feel really bad if he doesn't get a few votes, Herman for bringing so many new players into the fold, ... As an administrative note, there are currently three partial votes entered, I'll be attempting to contact those voters tomorrow (the initial verification happened but the voters have not returned to actually place the vote). Thank you for voting!

Haven't heard of them, do tell please

Somewhere in IRC or a forum or mailing list a number of months ago someone mentioned their own private DB of fanciful platforms. I would be most interested in hearing from you and possibly working together. My fictional DB obviously is not progressing as quickly as I would like but I do still want to offer it and get your platforms out there for public consumption as well. If you are out there, or anyone else is interested, please contact me. Thank you!

Lots of nice sounding stuff there. Most of it I like outside of the laser weapon, sounds good and all but may be scrambling a bit for any and all funding? Now if we just had more of the B-2s over which to spread the cost. Oh well, haven't used B-2 too much in Harpoon, guess I need to do more of that to explore options.

Please come vote everyone, while it is only day 3 of voting there are only 9 votes so far vs a few hundred people who have viewed the voting threads and not voted

It has been mainly a Harpoon 3 kind of year, both of my choices for 2006 Pooner awards exert much of their effort (but not all) on the H3 side of the fence. For 2006 Pooner I chose Jan-Paul Köster. His support work, bug verification and ranking, and his work on the AGSI wiki bring him my vote. For Lifetime Pooner I chose Darrel Dearing. He has programmed the Harpoon games off and on for a very long time, efficiently, with skill, and with an ability to sideskirt the nasty public confrontations some of the rest of us just cannot always let pass. In my opinion he has supported the game in the spirit of a lifetime Pooner.

HarpoonPages invites you to vote for the 2006 Pooner and Lifetime Pooner. The big news is that this is the 10th Anniversary of the first Pooner vote (Tom Wenck won back in 1996 for his pfedit program). Thanks to yours truly, Don Gilman, Larry Bond, Chris Carlson, and Brad Leyte (Pooner 2005) the award this year includes adoration & thanks of the Harpoon community and more. The 2006 Pooner will receive a first edition hard cover copy of Red Storm Rising, in Very Good condition (if not fine but I'm no book dealer) signed not only by Tom Clancy, but Larry Bond as well! The 2006 Lifetime Pooner will receive a copy of Dangerous Ground signed by Larry Bond and Chris Carlson! To vote and view the past winners, visit http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php If you have any difficulties voting, please send an e-mail to pooner@harpoonpages.com with your name, e-mail address, and your vote for Pooner and Lifetime Pooner and I will enter them manually. Please post this message on any forum/list/newsgroup where Harpoon players reside so that we can bring in as many votes and cudos as possible to those who sustain Harpoon.

HarpoonD has checked in on IRC a couple of times looking for a game of MP, let's see if we can give him some action eh? On related topics, the Canadians are taking over, HarpoonD hails from that strange and foreign land 200 some miles North of me... Welcome HarpoonD

Get it at: Harpgamer HC Scenarios EC2003 NACV TGPCIVIL 2nd War Between the States EC2003 Style AN EC2003 NACV HARPOON SCENARIO Anthony Eischens sysop@tgp.net MISSION BRIEFING The Northern United States finally called for an end to the Southern Drawl. This announcement was followed shortly by an embargo of pop flowing North from the South. As a matter of common understanding war broke out immediately. Hence the Second War Between the States began. Technicalities Affecting GamePlay: This scenario was designed to be played from either side and as such creating a credible AI threat is very difficult. Due to the author's attitude of ASW being only a sidebar to a good air battle you may not face determined subsurface attack. They are out there though! Each side begins with a solid base set of aircraft, ships, and subs. Beyond that is the possibility of a rather large assortment of additional units and positioning so the scenario should have moderate replay ability. Total victory is achieved by floating your CV within roughly 100 miles east of the OPFOR naval type installation (aka the anchor) and destroying OPFOR's CV(N). OPFOR bases need not be destroyed for total victory. Minimum victory is achieved through destroying all three of OPFOR's bases. Good luck, Commander. Clear the seas of your tasteless US pop or Coke drinkers.

There is something just magical about the aggressor role isn't there? Tiny F-5 and A-4 planes thumping F-14 monsters over and over again, a little AIP sub sinking a CVN over and over again, ...

Version 2006.01 of the Database Comparison Utility (dbComp) has been released. Get it at http://www.harpgamer.com under the Tools section. This utility creates a listing of changes between two versions of a database. Please submit your suggestions to this thread. dbComp is a very old tool that can't fully compare the current databases, help in getting it up to current is appreciated.