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A BattleSet is a collection of scenarios that take place in some particular part of the world.

 

A BattleSet will therefore always contain a map, and if you're in luck, one or more Scenarios. It may also, but not necessarily, also contain a Database.

 

Pre EC2003

 

The twenty (20) oldest BattleSets in the Harpoon Classic genre, and included in HCE, are:

 

GIUK - Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap

NACV - North Atlantic Convoys

MEDC - Mediterranean Conflict

IOPG - Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf

HDS1 - Harpoon Designers' Series BattleSet 1 - Enhanced GIUK

HDS2 - Harpoon Designers' Series BattleSet 2 - Enhanced NACV

HDS3 - Harpoon Designers' Series BattleSet 3 - Enhanced MEDC

HDS4 - Harpoon Designers' Series BattleSet 4 - Enhanced IOPG

HDS5 - Harpoon Designers' Series II Set #1 - GIUK Gap

HDS6 - Harpoon Designers' Series II Set #2 - North Atlantic

HDS7 - Harpoon Designers' Series II Set #3 - Mediterranean Sea

HDS8 - Harpoon Designers' Series II Set #4 - Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf

HDS9 - Harpoon Designers' Series III - GIUK

HDSA - Harpoon Designers' Series III - NACV

HDSB - Harpoon Designers' Series III - MEDC

HDSC - Harpoon Designers' Series III - IOPG

EC2000 Battle for the Norwegian Sea

EC2000 Battle for the Atlantic Ocean

EC2000 Battle for the Mediterranean

EC2000 Battle for the Gulf of Oman

 

As you can see, all of these BattleSets and the scenarios contained within them are focused on one of four geographical areas: the GIUK Gap, the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean, or the Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf.

 

All of these BattleSets and scenarios also use a built in, non-editable database that cannot be accessed through the Platform Editor (PE).

 

All user built scenarios made for these BattleSets will necessarily use the built in, non-editable database.

 

EC2003 and Later

 

The four EC2003 BattleSets are essentially repeats of the EC2000 BattleSets and the scenarios within them, with one notable exception.

 

They use the Official HCE Database, the HCDB database hosted here at HarpGamer, which is regularly updated and which is in fact accessible through the Platform Editor.

 

HCE also introduces five brand new BattleSets, set in parts of the world never fully represented before in the HC series:

 

Westpac - the Western Pacific

Caribbean Basin

South Atlantic

South Africa

Middle East (including the Red Sea and the eastern Mediterranean)

 

These newest BattleSets, and the scenarios that come packaged with HCE for them, again all use the HCDB database hosted here at HarpGamer.

 

User scenarios built for any of these battlesets (that is, the EC2003 series and the five newest ones mentioned above) can use either the HCDB or some other custom database.

 

BattleSet Builder

 

HCE also introduces a new utility that allows you to scour the globe and actually create - from scratch, essentially - your own custom BattleSet. This is the BattleSet Builder.

 

The Bering Strait and Baltic Collection BattleSets are examples of BattleSets created using this utility.

 

Any custom built BattleSet put together using the BattleSet Builder utility can also use either the HCDB or some other custom database.

 

Downloads

 

User scenarios available for download here at HarpGamer are organized by their appropriate BattleSets.

 

Fortunately this also tends to be organized by geography but in all cases the BattleSet hierarchy will rule.

 

The scenario author should also have indicated which database he used to build the scenario, and which, of course, must necessarily also be used to run it.

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