HCE bundle or stand alone???

[ird]

I owned the original Harpoon years ago and loved it. I only recently came across this when I purchased JTCS. My question is - should I go for the bundle or just the HCE. What differences are there between the two?? Can anyone give me a bit of guidance please

[mack2]

Oh dearrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

My suggestiion is go with the digital version of HCE, then get the H3 game if you get bored with HCE.

I think the main differences are H3 is alot more buggy, and is more micromangement with smaller forces than HCE, which ranges up to theatre level battles.

[ird]

Ok - thanks for that. That's what I'll do

[TonyE]

I don't think you can go wrong with the bundle, HC for the larger battle, H3 for the smaller ones.  Then when you feel like a human vs. human battle, H3 is your only choice.  If you loved the original Harpoon computer games then I can almost assure you you'll love HCE (I prefer the winharp/DOSHarp style interface of fixed window sizes but that's my only real beef, and pretty illogical at that).
 
 

[ird]

OK - I decided on HCE only, went to the purchase page (for the UK) - and when I try to order HCE (either physical shipment + download or physical shipment only) it automatically includes the entire bundle and won't allow me to remove ANW!!!!!!! What's going on. It doesn't do it if I request download only but I like to have a physical copy of a game if possible.
Also, on the first screen it advises that the game is not in stock but when I add it to my shopping list it comes up as in stock!!!! Can anyboy help me out with this please????????[&:]

[TonyE]

Perhaps try: http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_Main.Entry17C?SID=50505&SP=10023&CID=120628&PID=946296&PN=1&V1=946296
 
I went to www.matrixgames.com, clicked on Store, then clicked on UK, then clicked on Larry Bond's Harpoon - Commander's Edition in the right-hand column (Our latest releases), chose physical+download then add to cart and it did what I wanted.  Worked in both IE7 and Firefox 2.0.0.1. 
 
It may help to clear your cache first if the store is utterly confused at this point.
 
 

[ird]

Thanks Tony - just tried again on physical + download and it worked!!!!! Don't know what was up before. I'm working in Iceland til Friday so I'll download it onto my desktop when I get home