TonyE

Please post your requests for my fictional platforms database to this thread. The DB is very bare at present, and yes, I will be adding some generic installations for the next release.

HCStrikerFictDB-060703 Database Description: This database is not intended to reflect reality, it is a collection of my own imaginary platforms and those of the people around me. There will be many versions of one of my favorite planes, the F-14, and my favorite ships, Iowa class Battleships. Please post to the HCStrikerFictDB Requests thread on the HarpGamer forums with suggestions. *NOTE - The EC2003 & WestPac battleset scenarios will not work with this database, only scenarios written for this database will function. Credits: by Tony Eischens, platform values Copyright Tony Eischens. Many Thanks to Brad Leyte for permission to use HCDB entries at will. Computer Harpoon Copyright AGSI, as well as the data structures of the database. see http://www.advancedgaming.biz Harpoon Copyright Larry Bond and Chris Carlson Usage Policy: You are encouraged to make scenarios that use this database and distribute such scenarios as you see fit. You may not redistribute this database without permission of Tony Eischens. You may not make derivative works without permission of Tony Eischens. Change Log: 2006/07/03 Changes and Additions Aircraft: 10241 F-14D Tomcat 10242 MH-60R Seahawk 10243 Airwolf I 10244 F-35A JSF 10245 F-35B JSF 10246 F-35C JSF Ships: 02048 CVN North Carolina (thanks Ed Ladner aka Dr. Who) 02049 BBGN Alaska mod Kilo (thanks Michael aka Kilonum) Submarines: 06144 SSN Los Angeles

HCDB-060614 AIM-120C7 AMRAAM has 0.0nm minimum range AIM-120C9 AMRAAM has 2.0nm minimum range ID 31032 name issue "B/B" is this correct? Thanks

I just put up a dedicated server for the weekend. ODB is loaded, have fun! IP: 72.21.228.42 Port: 14342 Server Name: Stratsims

Date: December 1, 1942 (morning) Location: North Atlantic, east of the Azores Weather: Light fog, sunny, light wind U-boats: 3 x VIIB (1942) Enemy force encountered: Convoy, lightly escorted Results: Brains: Tonnage: 34,386 merchant; Renown: 1,020 Sunk: 4 x C2 Cargo, 2 x Small Merchant, 2 x Coastal Merchant TonyE: Tonnage: 22,782 merchant, 2,350 warship; Renown: 1,080 Sunk: 1 x Hunt I DD, 1 x River DE, 1 x Troop Transport , 2 x Small Merchant, 5 x Coastal Merchant CV32: Tonnage: 23,613 merchant; Renown: 700 Sunk: 1 x T2 Tanker, 2 x C2 Cargo Friendly Losses: None despite valiant gun duels and Tony's gunners liking Brains as a target! Home for Christmas !

how much longer will we stay in the VIIB, is a nice boat with a deck gun, but only one ready stern reload and no radar.

Date: June 1, 1940 (morning) Location: Western Atlantic, southwest of the Grand Banks Weather: Sunny, light fog, calm seas U-boats: 3 x VIIB (1940) Enemy force encountered: Medium sized convoy with massive escort and a few neutral merchants flying the Stars & Stripes. Results: Brains: Tonnage: 3564, Renown: 360 Sunk: 3 x V&W DD from 9:48 - 9:59am CV32: Tonnage: 10817, Renown: 320 Sunk: 1 x T2 Tanker at 9:40am TonyE: Tonnage: 1188, Renown: 120 Sunk: 1 x V&W DD at 9:32am Friendly Losses: TonyE (ramming/depth charged) CV32 (game crashed due to RL thunderstorms) Enemy Damage: 1 x C2 Cargo

Quite the game, chances on both sides to take the Cup. I saw more open net misses tonight than the previous three games put together. The chances were there, pipes were bigger than life and Caroline emerged victorious! http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=169214&hubname=nhl

On our March 1st sortie, a lot of time was spent on the surface chasing the Task Group.

What happened there, Game 6??? Conspiracy, NHL needs ad revenue, couldn't let Carolina win. This has really gotten sad, come on Carolina!

Such a good game and then to be won on such a stupid goal, ugh! That's the way it often goes though.

Plane LoadoutsHCCEb13 Weapons of type Gun will not work in loadouts, model as bombs or missiles. [*]Weapons Select the weapon Type before giving entry any other characteristics so that an ID in the proper range is auto-created by the PE. [*]Administrative Archive your pfData file each time you release a new revision of the DB. Don't Import over the top of your master pfData file. It is dangerous if the import fails and can remove logging information you may want later. HarpGamer suggests naming your DB in the format NAME-YYMMDD where NAME is your DB's name of up to 24 characters and YYMMDD is the date of release of this version of the DB.

Possibility of a database problem or a regular old bug. Can you give more detail into the circumstances such as adding a particular unit to a particult base? Even better is always a save and instructions to recreate. Thanks.

Unfortunate but fairly customary, certainly undesired

Great resource Pete, similar to the CIA World Factbook but more military-focused. I checked out the UAE and found the mention of training with Iraq and other such tidbits interesting, they could be good triggers for scenarios.

The normal HarpGamer SH3 cruise... Brains hosts so that he gets the little detection meter, for some reason only the hosting party gets that great assist. Tony tears off towards the target group at way too high of a speed. Brad slides in towards the convoy, attracting no attention. Brains despite making little or no noise attracts all of the escorts, sinks half of them. Tony lets loose a few torps at the convoy, the other guys follow suit. Brains, despite making little or no noise attracts all of the escorts and any planes nearby, sinks/shoots down half of them. Tony gets sunk on the first depth charge run of any suitably poor escort such as an armed trawler. Brad slips away unharmed Brains manages to escape battered but unbelievably, and I mean unbelievably alive and kicking. End result: Brad or Tony with most merchant tonnage, Brains with escort tonnage and some merchant.

Okay class, see secondary entry... Main Entry: pleth·o·ra Pronunciation: 'ple-th&-r& Function: noun Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Greek plEthOra, literally, fullness, from plEthein to be full -- more at FULL 1 : a bodily condition characterized by an excess of blood and marked by turgescence and a florid complexion 2 : EXCESS, SUPERFLUITY; also : PROFUSION, ABUNDANCE - ple·tho·ric /pl&-'thor-ik, ple-, -'thär-; 'ple-th&-rik/ adjective Thank you Merriam-Webster for the assist

The evening's hunt was successful, 128,222 tons of shipping and 3,942 tons of warship. This was followed by starshell displays, poor driving (aka rammings) and some accidental deaths

There is also no direct mapping of H4.1 paper data into H3/ANW so while the database is based on the data, it may in the end be no closer to H4.1 than any of the other databases (which pretty much circulate around H4.1 results anyway...).

Nah, I think he is a graduate of Saddam Hussein's school of using the "West's" diplomatic process against itself. But will he come to the same end...

Thanks Rene , right on. We successfully married another Eischens this weekend (a 2nd cousin) out of cell phone and easy Internet range, sure was nice!

Edge of seat nearing...

I may be overly awed by the numbers involved in the Chinese military but it seems to me even an island protected by S-300/400 SAMs or Patriot+Arrow wouldn't stand a chance against the onset of hostilities with China. A warring party may be able to move armored reserves against a concentrated armor onslaught but missile warfare if executed half decently cannot be defended economically with current systems. You cannot shift anti-missile batteries even a hundred miles quickly enough to bring sufficient defense to an area facing concentrated missile attack and defended multiple areas against a greater than average threat will bleed any military dry. I've long had the similar concerns about the longevity of expensive ships at sea. Is Taiwan better off with 20 SM-I armed ships or 4 Aegis ships with SM-II? It takes only four torpedoes to sink the entire Aegis fleet, at least 20 for the 'lesser' SM-I ships. I think the topic ties in well with Pete's LCS gaming. He is showing (unintentionally I think) that a LCS group costing a similar amount to one DD-X (or even less!) is much more surivable and more flexible as well. The most notable comparison in my mind comes in F-15 vs F-16. The US would not buy all of the F-15s it wanted, the lower-end F-16 was built to round out the numbers. Granted the F-16 has been given many more upgrades that and capabilities than were planned but we haven't seen droves of F-16s being shot down as inferior instruments. Maybe Taiwan should figure out a way to lie low in the initial onset, stow the antennas when the first launches are detected, and don't put them back up until the initial, indefensible missile assault is thru... In rambling conclusion , there is a middle ground somewhere, the US has been incredibly poor at reaching the middle ground and I think Taiwan could be hamstringing itself by assuming that fewer high-cost platforms are really more valuable than swarms of low-cost platforms when the real missiles start flying.

Now that Iran suggests they'll let the inspectors in I think the US should follow suit and play the game for a while before condemning the process. Good move by Iran, poor response by the US in not letting Iran be forced into being uncooperative with the inspectors.