New databases and scenarios for Harpoon Classic

[markf152]

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.

[Herman]

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:



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:



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.

[Herman]

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/



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[Herman]

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



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[Herman]

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



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[Herman]

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

[Herman]

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



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[Herman]

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



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[Herman]

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



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[Herman]

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



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[Herman]

The 16th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year!

Task Force 77

A Harpoon Commanders Edition (HCE) scenario for the Westpac Battleset and the HCE Cold War Database (HCCW-110222 or later).

In April 1975, with the North Vietnamese tightening their stranglehold on South Vietnam and their army closing on Saigon, the Americans assembled a large naval force to assist in the evacuation of American civilians and Vietnamese refugees deemed to be at risk when the entire country eventually fell to the NVA. In this scenario, the Soviets launch a much more overt effort to support the North in the closing days of their campaign, seeking to ensure their own grip on Cam Ranh Bay and the vital sea lanes of the Western Pacific. The administration in Washington, red faced from the Watergate scandal and looking for diversions, turns to face the Communist threat once more.

Author: Brad Leyte

http://tinyurl.com/6xzxozz



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[Herman]

The 18th NEW Harpoon scenario of the year!

Antaeus

A Harpoon Commander's Edition scenario for the EC2003 MEDC battleset.

Having become engulfed in the protests and demonstrations cascading across Middle Eastern nations, Libya is now in full revolt. Benghazi has fallen to, some might say been liberated by, the anti-government movement which is sweeping west toward Tripoli. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, leader of this North African country for more than 40 years, refuses to leave power and is instead tightening his grip. Although many have abandoned the regime, a considerable number of forces still loyal to Gaddafi have been conducting arrests, abductions, and killings to try and stop the tides of change. It is reported that Gaddafi is promising wealth and position to local officials, political leaders and armed forces commanders in an effort to guarantee their support and obedience. With the military now taking an active role in suppressing the rebels, launching air strikes and ground attacks, the country is slipping rapidly into civil war.

Author: Brad Leyte

http://tinyurl.com/4lm3dmv



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[Herman]

The Harpoon – Commanders’ Edition Is Updated

A hefty new update to bring the Commander’s Edition up to Ultimate Edition caliber

Matrix Games and Advanced Gaming Systems (www.advancedgaming.biz) are pleased to release the comprehensive 2009.050 update for their classic naval warfare simulator, Harpoon – Commander’s Edition. The update polishes the Commander’s Edition to play more like the Ultimate Edition with AI improvements, additional features for the scenario editor, database updates, and many other changes and bug fixes. This will be the final planned update for the separate Commander’s Edition, which will continue as part of the Ultimate Edition package.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=2749422

Get the update here:
ftp://ftp.matrixgames.com/pub/Harpoo...r-2009.050.zip



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[Herman]

A new version of the HCDB database, the Harpoon Commander's Edition (HCE) Database (HCDB-110304), is now available.

It is available in the Downloads section of the HarpGamer website.

New additions (or overhauls of existing entries) include:

MiG-25PD Foxbat E - Libya
Su-22M Fitter J - Libya
Su-24M2 Fencer D - Russia
Tu-22B Blinder A - Libya
Ibn Ouf LST - Libya
Nanuchka II (1234E/LY) PTM - Libya
Natya I (266M1/LY) MCM - Libya
Osa II (205EM/LY) PTM - Libya

http://tinyurl.com/46g57b3

[Herman]

The 22nd NEW Harpoon scenario of the year!

Submarines Galore 89

A submarine-only scenario without other diversions, inspired by some old scenario booklets of the Harpoon 3 series, good for testing submarines, submarine tactics, sonars, torpedoes and other ASW weapons. Perhaps the Western submarines are numerically over-represented, but it's reflecting the original and very reduced in number of submarines paper scenarios. Also it's configured as a vanilla scenario for lazy players wanting to enjoy a simple pastime, and with the aim of replayability thanks to the aleatority of the starting positions and of the units presence or not presence. I think it's playable at the 10 or even 30 minutes time compression ... before any contact.

Scenario Background:

At the start of the WWIII in the North Atlantic on 1989, the bad weather and also the political uncertitude precludes the use of air and surface assets. To keep low the social unrest because the war, the opening naval actions are limitated to the discrete submarine operations, in a situation remembrance of the 1939 Phony War and of the 1994 Tom Clancy's novel Debt of Honor (where both Japan and the United States are in war against the other, but both governments are occulting the fact to his respective public opinions to prevent the collapse of the stock markets), but these underwater actions are not less decisive or murderous than a full open war.

Author: Enrique Mas (a.k.a. Broncepulido)

http://tinyurl.com/3njbbxv



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