Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!slipknot.mit.edu!mvk From: mvk@slipknot.mit.edu (Mark Kuric) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: Suggestions about Harpoon Message-ID: <1991Mar19.200815.28301@athena.mit.edu> Date: 19 Mar 91 20:08:15 GMT References: <12812@ur-cc.UUCP> <253@syrian.cs.utexas.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Francis Bitter National Magnet Lab Lines: 20 > Actually, there are two new battlesets out now. According to a friend at > 360, the Med battleset was finished on Friday and should be shipping today. > > But you mean NACV, North Atlantic Convoys. SOme of the scenarios are > similar, but there are more of them and new ships and weapons (Sea Lance > and Mk50 torpedos come to mine, as well as the $2 billion Sea Wolf). > > I'd get it, if I were you. My only complaint about it (not including bugs, > of course) is that a number of the scenarios are long; they involve getting > ships from Boston to Southampton. > > If anybody finds a bug in Harpoon, please mail it to me. Please include > a description, the scenario, and what you were doing. My address follows... Are these scenarios any better than the GIUK set. I was really disappointed with this first set because almost all of the scenarios are just a walk over against the computer. The tactics used incredibly simplistic and the weapons were not used to anything near their full capabilities. Mark Kuric