And certainly nothing else had the same level of community support in the form of user-designed scenarios and databases. Other excellent Air/Naval sims were either at the tactical scale (Dangerous Waters), poorly supported/updated (Naval War: Arctic Circle) or wouldn’t run on modern 圆4 systems (Jane’s Fleet Command). And it’s pretty much all we’ve had at the Operational level. Stability and bugs have always been issues with the game, but overall it remains a fine Air/Naval wargame. It has a lot of fans, including this writer. Harpoon 3 was (and is) the final computer version of the Harpoon series of computer wargames (The minis rules are now up to Harpoon 5, by the way).

I’d been playing Harpoon since it was a miniatures game back when it first came out in the early 80’s (I still have my battered 1st-edition rulebook) and I pretty much played that thing to death, especially after we found out Clancy had used it to game out the battles in Red Storm Rising. There is a hard-core air/naval simulator/wargame called Harpoon 3. If you have no interest in this background info, you can skip right to Section I, where the actual review begins. Though this is a review of Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations, I believe it would useful to take a look at how it came to be, and who’s responsible for designing it. Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations – A brief bit of background

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