Harpoon Captain’s Edition is a relatively low complexity wargame that’s supposed to be simple to learn and fun to play. The above is pulled from the beginning of the rule book and pretty much tell you everything about the game. The Captain’s Briefing also includes discussions of various modern weapon systems and a number of advanced rules. Each scenario lists all the information necessary for play, such as forces available to each side and starting positions. The scenarios themselves are all contained in the Captain’s Briefing. After several rules have been presented, you will be directed to play a scenario which uses and illustrates those rules. In each section, specific rules are presented that translate that aspect of warfare into game terms. Section one covers surface naval vessels section two covers detection of enemy vessels section three deals with submarines an sections four and five add aircraft to the game. Each section begins with a description of one aspect of modern naval warfare. To make it easy to learn the rules, they are broken up into separate sections. Many details have been kept out of the game to allow the players to concentrate on command decisions, but the overall capabilities of various sensors and weapon systems are still presented accurately. The game places you int he same position as a ship’s captain or the admiral commanding a task force. Harpoon Captain’s Edition provides a clear and concise description of modern naval warfare. They receive the distilled results of all the technical, data-gathering assets at their disposal and make decisions accordingly.
While warfare between naval vessels and aircraft can be a complicated and technical business, the critical tactical decisions are made by captains and admirals who do not generally study a radar or sonar display themselves. Welcome to the arena of modern naval combat! In this game you will become a naval commander, in charge of guided-missile ships, nuclear submarines, and jet aircraft. Harpoon II (1983), Harpoon (1987+), Harpoon Captain’s Edition (1990) – Photos via BGG Battle Stations!
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I mean, the box art looked like the Harpoon series but when the cover also says “Easy to Learn – Fun to Play” and “Start Playing in 30 Minutes,” well, that was just NOT the real Harpoon I wanted to play! Furthermore, the game didn’t even look like Harpoon. To be honest, a wargame about the Cold War Gone Hot in the North Atlantic at that time seemed so quaint. I vaguely remember browsing through a game store (Compleat Strategist in Virginia?) and looking at Harpoon Captain’s Edition: Exciting Modern Naval Battle Game. So the truth to the matter is I missed Harpoon Captain’s Edition when it was first released in 1990.īy the mid-1990’s the Soviet Union had fallen and was already a fading memory. Between training, something called DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM, and a few years stationed overseas my first few years of the 1990’s were taken up by concerns other than wargaming. In 1989 I finished college and joined the US Navy. I started out with the Adventure Games edition of Harpoon II in 1983 and in 1987 jumped to the new GDW edition informally called Harpoon III but more simply known as Harpoon. For naval combat I was all about Harpoon. For air combat games I enjoyed the Fighting Wings series from JD Webster, in particular his modern Air Superiority title from GDW in 1987. I was a Star Fleet Battles (Task Force Games, 1979) fanatic and when the then-new Star Fleet Battles Captain’s Edition Basic Set released in 1900 I grabbed it up.
In the late 1980’s I was, in many ways, a hard-core wargamer. Ardie…you let your fear of Harpoon get the best of you here because this is NOT a complicated near-simulation like Harpoon purports to be….
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