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The 26th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! F-94 Korea This was in the begining a test scenario to test unguided air-to-air rockets, basically in the F-94C Starfire, and his effectiveness (I was very dubtious about the capability in the game of a unguided rocket to hit in a flying airplane). But now I think it can be very simple introductory scenario to Harpoon HCE, mostly for old time interception and worth of release it, with the flavour of the early 1950s. The situation report is very simple, your're at the command of the 39th Fighter Interceptor Squadron near 1954, temporarily deployed from Komaki AFB, Japan, to South Korea (and very reinforced in strength), and equipped with the new Lockheed F-94C Starfire (derived from the F-80/T-33), all-weather interceptor exclusively armed with unguided air-to-air rockets (the famous 2.75" FFAR Mk4 Mighty Mouse), to defend Seoul from upcoming streams of communist bombers breaking the 1953 ceasefire ! Author: Enrique Mas This Harpoon Classic scenario requires use of the HC_50to65_DB_100511 http://tinyurl.com/2d4fm88 http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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The 27th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! Brush Wars Scenario 01 - Business As Usual The front lines of the Global War on Terror have always been intermixed with regional security and stability issues. In the Southern Philippines, the local government is still battling with decades-old adversaries; remainders of Communist rebels and militas intent on an Islamic breakaway territory. Add to that mix new players such as Al-Qaeda and drug-smuggling rings and you've got a heady brew waiting to boil over. Since 2002, the US Navy has provided soft and hard support in the southern conflict, but keeping a low-key profile. Case in point: US forces consisting of medical, construction and civil affairs elements have been dispatched from the main city of Zamboanga to an outpost on Basilan Island. Providing humanitarian aid effort to win over the local populace is a critical part of the COIN strategy. If successful, the campaign will remove another base of support for anti-government forces. Securing Basilan opens the way to the rest of the island chain leading south to Sabah where numerous terror camps have started to pop up. This is a relatively low-tech scenario from an organic fires perspective (no SAMs or SSMs), but it reflects the reality of assymetrical warfare. One side enjoys a sensor and communication advantage. The other enjoys numbers and ability to strike and fade at will. Managing and preserving your combat power while applying maximum effort to the opponent's vulnerabilities is the key to victory. Author: Armando Heredia (a.k.a. Juramentado) This Harpoon Classic scenario can be found http://tinyurl.com/235zq5d http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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The 29th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! Napoleon's Revenge The detonation of an unauthorised nuclear weapon in the war between the European alliance and the USA has led to the UK pulling out of the European alliance and declaring neutrality in the conflict. France sees this action as both treacherous and cowardly and has released many official statements condemning the UK but going no further. Author: Don Thomas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FilesO...s%20Scenarios/ http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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The 30th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! It Gets Hot Phase two of French military action against the UK following UK withdrawal from the European Alliance against USA. A minor skirmish at sea has been settled but France isn't satisfied with the out come. Despite both France and Great Britain having significant military hardware, abroad it seems certain that France will launch an attack against the British Isles. Author: Don Thomas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FilesO...s%20Scenarios/ http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
A new version of the official Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) Database (HCDB-100528) is now available.
Get the new DB in the Download section. New additions (or overhauls of existing entries) include: Abraham Lincoln (1989) CVN - USA America (1980) CV - USA Bush (2009) CVN - USA Forrestal (1977) CV - USA John C. Stennis (2005) CVN - USA Saratoga (1983) CV - USA Washington (2007) CVN - USA http://tinyurl.com/2ub46kf http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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The 32nd NEW Harpoon scenario of the year!
Back Door http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9817/backdoor.th.gif Political daggers are drawn, but war is not declared. France is certain to take military action to compensate what they see as the UK's desertion from the EU alliance against the USA. Your carrier group has been recalled to Gibraltar. You are the oldest, and most frequently passed over captain in Her Majesties Navy and itch for a decisive victory and the certain promotion, this could be your chance.... Author: Donald Thomas http://tinyurl.com/2b8ltrz http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif |
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The 36th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! Operation Lone Avenue In the near future, the global economy remains stagnant and nations once committed to protecting the shipping lifelines of the world make deep budgetary cuts particularly in defense spending. As a result, the world's navies have gradually withdrawn from the Horn of Africa, leaving a dedicated few to continue the long patrols. Japan has become the dominant maritime power in the region. The US Navy's presence is a mere shell of it's former glory. Ashore, the war over Somalia has stalemated. The African Federal Union has finally seized Mogadishu. The Islamic Foundation of Justice is fighting a two front-war against both the Federalists and a hard-core pirate coalition on the coasts. All sides are exhausted from the protracted conflict and have agreed to a temporary cease-fire. But the IFJ has called upon their trump card; surging from the Persian Gulf is a renewed Iran, intent on spreading their militant philosophy to the shores of Africa... Author: AJ Heredia (a.k.a. Juramentado) Coral Sea The battle for the Coral Sea was at the time said by many prominent Australians to have saved our skin. Later available evidence makes that uncertain but in any case it was interesting from an historical warfare point (first sea battle without surface forces facing off) and a turning point in the "Pacific War". Here we have a scenario structured on the Coral Sea situation, as best as I can. Allied intelligence has intercepted Japanese communications and determined that a strike force is headed out of the Pacific to attack Port Moresby. This is part of an overall strategy to rid America from the Pacific and allow the Japanese to move through out the region. Port Moresby must be held. Author: Don Thomas (a.k.a. DonSeaDog) http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/...lassic%20Gold/ http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
A new version of the official Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) Database (HCDB-100930) is now available.
Get the new DB in the Download section. New additions (or overhauls of existing entries) include: F-16A Falcon - USA F-16C/D Blk 25 - USA OH-1 Ninja - Japan Saettia Mk 4 OPV - Iraq SAM Grom 1 Team - INTL SAM I-Hawk PIP2 Bty - INTL Charlie I (670A/IN) SSGN - India Hai Lung (2009) SS - Taiwan http://tinyurl.com/2ub46kf http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
The 44th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! Smiling Buddha – EC2003 IOPG The year is 2013 and the balance of power has shifted. The threat of Chinese liquidation of American debt has left the Chinese as the main military power in the Pacific, and the battle lines in the Mideast are hardening as Chinese weapons sales are now unchecked. Iran, after many delays in its nuclear wepons programs, has ordered and paid for a package of thermonuclear warheads for its existing missiles. Israel has promised that the delivery of these warheads will result in a nuclear attack on Iran. Pakistan, with the withdrawal of American support, seems inclined to support the delivery of these weapons. India, with a divided legislature and a shortage of modern weapons, will have to interrupt this delivery. Author: Patrick Howard (a.k.a. Rainman) http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/...s%20Scenarios/ http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
The 45th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! First Lightning A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Middle East Battleset. It is October 1984. A financial crisis in Latin America has led to huge loan defaults in Argentina, Brazil and Chile. American banks, who had heavily financed the development efforts in Latin America, have been caught by surprise and are now in a serious slide. Washington took drastic steps and imposed a freeze upon banking transactions across the nation. Then, a week ago, a terrorist bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, claimed the life of the US ambassador and numerous civilians. At the same time, a guerilla movement believed to have ties to that terror attack and backed by the Soviet Union, toppled the Omani government in the wake of massive financial losses in its banking sector. American peacekeepers have moved into Saudi Arabia after rebellious elements of the Saudi army moved to occupy the holy city of Mecca. It is the largest commitment of American troops since the Vietnam war. Moscow has bitterly criticised the American presence in the Persian Gulf, calling it a grave act of provocation. Three days ago, the new regime in Oman allied with Tehran to impose a toll on tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz. All tanker traffic in the Gulf has now come to a stop. Author: Brad Leyte http://tinyurl.com/28gh3z9 http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
PlayersDB --> Harpoon for Mac (3.6.2) -- Help Requested
I've searched the Internet to no avail . . . How *exactly* do I incorporate the PlayersDB files into the Harpoon file structure on my Mac (OSX 10.6.5). Some of the file names / extensions match up while others do not (e.g. *.res vs *.rsrc). The folder names are slightly different (e.g. Battleset vs Battlesets) and there isn't a "DAT2" folder in my Mac Harpoon installation while the PlayersDB comes with DAT2. I just purchased Harpoon for Mac today (04Dec2010).
Anyway, I really have searched diligently and Googled this to death. Did I miss a FAQ or a post somewhere? Thanks. Mark F. |
I am a bit confused by your situation and would like to clarify a few things.
You are posting in a thread about the Harpoon Classic line of games that have a game screen that looks like this: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down..._z14_thumb.jpg Is this the version of the game you are trying to get to work with the PlayersDB? If so, the answer to your problem is easy. The PlayersDB is made only to work with the Harpoon3 version that look like this: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down..._Fz0_thumb.gif and not the Harpoon Classic line of games. If you are playing the Harpoon3 version of the game, then there are ways to get things to work. The scenarios work, but the PlayersDB installer was created to accommodate the file arrangement of the PC. I do not have a Mac so I am unaware of a different arrangement for Mac users as opposed to PC users (i.e. the file arrangement). I think that the simplest solution is to just run the PlayersDB installer to any empty folder. (After all, it is simply one big Zip file. It doesn't alter anything.) Then, you just move the various *.SCN, *.RES, *.DAT components out of that folder to their associated places in your installation. For example, if the installer creates the folder, "Battlset" with all the *.DSD and *.SCN files within and your Mac installation has a folder named "Battleset" instead (with *.DSD and *.SCN files inside), you just move all the stuff over to it. If this does not help you, please feel free to contact me directly and we can arrange an online chat. I am certain that your problem can be worked around. Sometimes, a few minutes of live chat can save endless hours of forum messages and e-mail. |
Harpoon Classic Scenarios
The first 3 NEW Harpoon scenarios of the year! The Headbutts This is series of three HCE scenarios, intended primarily for beginning and intermediate HCE players. They are small, and playable from RED or BLUE in each case. I hope that these will serve as a training tool for beginners, and an overview of the relative capabilities of American, French, Russian, and British carrier groups around 2014 or so for more advanced players. "Historical" accuracy is a goal, so Tomcats, Backfires, Vikings, etc. are absent in this collection. A guide to the included aircraft and weapons derived from the HCDB 101213 database, giving weapon speeds, ESM details, etc. is included with each scenario. Please use this database as older ones will cause inaccurate play balance. This package will be followed in time with much more difficult scenarios playable by one side only. Butt1 USA vs Russia, South Africa. Easy (BLUE) Difficult (RED) Butt2 France vs Russia, South Africa, Intermediate (BLUE) Intermediate (RED) Butt3 UK and Denmark vs Russia, GIUK, Intermediate (BLUE) Intermediate (RED) and somewhat larger. Author: Patrick Howard http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/...s%20Scenarios/ http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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The 5th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! Battle of Latakia A Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) scenario for the Middle East Battleset and the HCE Cold War (HCCW) Database. The Battle of Latakia was a small naval battle fought on 7 October 1973, during the Yom Kippur War. It was the first naval engagement to involve an exchange of anti-ship surface to surface missiles and in which electronic warfare played a principal role. The Syrians were equipped with Soviet supplied Project 183 Komar and Project 205 Osa class missile boats armed with the P-15 Termit (NATO SS-N-2 Styx), a weapon that had already stung Israel almost exactly six years earlier, with the loss of the destroyer INS Eilat on 20 October 1967. The Styx had twice the range of the Israeli Gabriel, and a much larger warhead. To meet the threat, the Israelis would need every once of guile, wit and and courage that they could muster. Author: Brad Leyte http://tinyurl.com/5t9h8jp http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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The 6th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! LCS goes to War. Battle off Vietnam 2015 This scenario is inspired in the current (January 2011) discussions about the Littoral Control Ship, her future, her future missions and her future fate. In a surprising decission with the absurd allegation of budgetary eficiency, on November 2010 the US Navy decides to purchase a great number of LCS, when yet are not resolved a myriad of issues relatives to the ship design, concept and tasks. The US Navy will purchase ten ships of each one of the concurrent designs (added to the previous four), and not declare a winner neither select only one design for series shipbuilding. In particular this scenario is motived when in some blog someone asked a few days ago: "How a group of LCS can stand before a Chinese Sovrenmenny ?". Historical background (Hypothetical): The near future, summer 2015. A constant succession of new challenges in a fast changing world. At the other extreme of the world Argentina has seized the Falklands/Malvinas Islands on August 2011, and the failure of the reduced British forces sent without air support to recover the islands has motivated a great lack of credibility on the Western military capacities. In Europe, the Islamic Supremacy groups are forcing the European Union governments to be aside of the global issues. Europe is not already a player. Only very reduced US forces are keeping a credible operational readiness in the Western countries. China sees on it an opportunity to expose clearly and affirm what is his strategic influence zone, the countries from which he needs to import raw strategic materials and other resources, and the external markets that considers as of his exclusive property for import and export of manufactured goods, and in those China will not tolerate the intromission of powers strange to Asian countries. His strategic influence zone is very similar in extension and configuration to the previous Japanese Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and it will motivate the same type of troubles in the Pacific Ocean. And remember, the intelligence estimates ever can be erroneous ... Author: Enrique Mas http://tinyurl.com/4nyfap2 http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
A new version of the HCDB database, the Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) Database (HCDB-110201), is now available.
It is available in the Downloads section of the HarpGamer website. New additions (or overhauls of existing entries) include: J-20 Black Silk - China Tejas Mk 1 (LCA) - India An Yang (Fletcher) DD - Taiwan Kwei Yang (Fletcher) DD - Taiwan Wu Chin I DD - Taiwan http://tinyurl.com/2ub46kf http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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The 12th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! Karafuto A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Westpac battleset. At the conclusion of World War II, the Soviet Union annexed the sparsely populated islands of the Kuril archipelago, a region they had seized and occupied during an offensive undertaken in the closing days of the war. The peace treaty made between Tokyo and the allies underlined Japan's loss of the territory, but neither did it reinforce the Soviet claim. The sovereignty dispute over the Kurils has continued to simmer for decades, and now looks to boil over with the Japanese making moves reminiscent of the Karafuto Prefecture. Author: Brad Leyte Singapore 1942 Circa 1941 Japan invading Singapore, but not factually based. Plenty of aircraft action but at the end of the day Blue must deal with a superior naval force. Author: Don Thomas http://tinyurl.com/4ebm73r http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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The 13th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! August Storm A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the Westpac battleset. At the conclusion of World War II, the Soviet Union annexed the sparsely populated islands of the Kuril archipelago, a region they had seized and occupied during an offensive undertaken in the closing days of the war. The peace treaty made between Tokyo and the allies underlined Japan's loss of the territory, but it did not reinforce the Soviet claim. The sovereignty dispute over the Kurils has continued to simmer for decades, and now looks to boil over with the Russians making moves reminiscent of the Manchurian Offensive. Author: Brad Leyte http://tinyurl.com/4ebm73r http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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The 14th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! Evacuation through the Alboran Sea 2012 Spring 2012: As a last backslash to the 2011 turmoils in the North Africa and Middle East Muslim World, in Morocco the moderate laicist Government of National Unity of Abdelhadi Boucetta (With the decisive support of his intellectual and glamorous wife) replacing for less than a year the deposed King Mohammed VI (Exiled to the ONA-Managem luxury mining facilities in Equatorial Guinea), has been overthrowed by the Islamic extremists after a long and painful agony. The new Moroccan islamist Government of the now named Muslim Brotherhood in the Islamic Maghreb, counts with the opposition of a important sector of the Moroccan people, basically the most literate and pro-Western sector. Preventing a possible unrest, remembering the internal public reaction to the ill-fated Moroccan invasion of the Spanish Perejil Island on 2002, the new Islamic government has fixed as national target for amagalmation of the public opinion the seizure of the North-African Spanish Automous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, a long-time Moroccan claim. As both cities are very vulnerable without room for a possible in depth military defence, and the other new strategic targets and ambitions of the Spanish Government are now well known and the last years was retiring troops and police corps from both Ceuta and Melilla, there is a window of vulnerability the Islamic faction has well exploited. With a Moroccan Police and Secret Service organized human waves of thousands of desesperate low-class Moroccan people jumping, breaking through, bending and for last tearing apart the divisory fence between both cities and Morocco, in face of the passivity of the Spanish security forces to avoid the loss of human lives (Action and reaction very similar to the Moroccan Green March occupation of the Spanish Sahara on November 1975, against a confuse Spanish government when Franco layed dying), the Moroccans had de facto occuppied both cities. Facing a not-return case, the Spanish citizens are assembled by the authorities in the cities ports, waiting for maritime evacuation (Only Melilla counts with a very small airport). Remembering the success of the current Somalia pirates, and the success of the traditional historical activity of the Barbary Coast pirates (Only finished with the French conquest in North Africa in the XIX Century, after the previous famous actions of the USN and USMC), and for enforce more the moral of the Moroccan People, the Islamic government has decided to prevent the evacuation and the loss of richess and qualified manpower. In the tradition of their ancestors the Barbary pirates, they want capture them for ransom, or if not destroy and sunk the merchant ships carring them, to shown the weakness of the Spanish government and his incapatility to protect his own nationals. In Spain, after the 2012 polls, the unstable socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his long-time Defence Minister Carmen Chacon, has had to suffer the pressure of the peripherical nationalistic parties of his coalition of government, and to lend to his desires. After the resignation of General Felix Sanz Roldan as head of the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia and his replacement by a puppet civilian, nothing can be opposed to the nationalistic parties desires. As their first demand is the recuperation of the old territories of the Kingdom of Aragon, most of the surface forces of the Spanish Navy and a great number of his air assets are deployed in forward bases in the Balearic Islands and in the Central Mediterranean. As a result of it, facing the worst-case possible scenario, only limited forces are available for escorting the evacuation of Spanish refugees from Ceuta and Melilla. Author: Enrique Mas [a.k.a Broncepulido] http://tinyurl.com/62g45pa http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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The 15th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year! Kangaroo Exercises An early - mid 1960s small scale joint Naval exercise (Australia/USA/NZ) off the Australian coast proximate the Coral Sea. Things go wrong when USSR shadows get in the firing line. Australian, USA and NZ joint naval exercises have been progressing for ten days of the Australian Great Barrier Reef and into the Coral Sea. Two days of continuous at sea replenishment exercises completed 24 hours ago and two surface groups are preparing to conduct warfare exercises. The replenishment group is returning to Brisbane via the 'tight' “inside passage” of the Great Barrier Reef.... Author: Donald Thomas [a.k.a DonSeaDog] http://tinyurl.com/5sfpdzc http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/gslogo.jpg http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/badger0ma.th.jpgFilesOfScenShare http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/SubSimLogo.gif http://www.harplonkhq.com/images/mainpic.gif |
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