Never had any stability problems with the original Amiga Harpoon, nor with PC Classic Gold or Harpoon 3
both of which are still on my harddrive.
When I hung up my boots with flight sims I spent a lot of time with Harpoon. Its a great strategic naval game
which has been continuously improved and is beeing currently marketed to the military as Harpoon Pro.
H3 community have produced loads of missions and the databases have been constantly updated.
The revised aircraft turn-round times are now more realistic so air warfare does not dominate so decisively.
It is not quite as lean as Fleet Command (Harpoon Lite ?) and can be slow and turgid. If you risk injudicous
time acceleration you can get caught and this is the prime criticism of the multiplayer game which is cutrrently in beta.
Speaking personaly I missed the adrenalin buzz of flight sims so moved to SC - never to look back.
MP was great - and will be when I sort out my new router.
Harpoons payoff to the gamer is in the planniing and coordination of disparate units to achieve distant goals
- SC/DW gives you all that plus the thrill of mastering the technical and tactical operational challenge -
you're in the hot seat/s - quite simply mind blowing.
