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HCE bundle or stand alone???
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:56 am
by 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
RE: HCE bundle or stand alone???
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:39 pm
by 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.
RE: HCE bundle or stand alone???
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:41 pm
by ird
Ok - thanks for that. That's what I'll do
RE: HCE bundle or stand alone???
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:35 pm
by 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).
RE: HCE bundle or stand alone???
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:18 pm
by 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????????[&:]
RE: HCE bundle or stand alone???
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:24 pm
by 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.
RE: HCE bundle or stand alone???
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:34 pm
by 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