These are just some links to general popular resources out there that are useful to Harpoon Scenario writers. Nothing to special just something to get pooners started.
Order of Battle:
Orders of Battle:
http://orbat.com/
Very nice site which has a large collection of
orders of battles, maps and generally good scenario material. Material
covers modern history (early 19th century on) and some sections are
not accessible without a membership. Most material is free however.
Scramble-Air Force Overviews:
http://www.scramble.nl/airforces.htm
Probably the nicest current air order of battle site. Large collection
of airforces with airbase locations. Correct latitude and longitude is
given for airbases which are also hotlinked to expedia maps.
World Airforces-Countries
http://www.worldairforces.com/Countries ... index.html
Tabular historical air order of battle data. Covers nations not easily found on the web.
Haze Gray & Underway:
http://www.hazegray.org
Marvelous naval orbat site maintained by Andrew Toppan. This site is
reasonably up to date and includes a great collection of historical
information as well.
Warship1.com via the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://warships1.com
Okay well warships was a great site naval order of battle site that
closed due to funding. Luckily the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
backed the now missing information up. You can find version of the site
from 1998 until now.
World Ships Online Database + Photos
http://www20.brinkster.com/worldships/
Need a name for that merchant this is the place. Please add ships you know about as well to return the favor.
Auke Visser´s International Super Tankers
http://supertankers.topcities.com/id133.htm
Oil Tankers galore.
Global Security:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/index.html
One of the more prominent defense oriented site. Large collections of
orders of battles, news stories, satellite photos and good general
primers in military matters. Discrepancies have been found in the past
but the information is generally reliable.
JCSS Middle Eastern Balance:
http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/balance/toc.html#military
Real nice updated Middle Eastern Order of Battles. Some nations are
actually in North Africa but who cares. All materials in .pdf form
Go Navy:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/gonavy/atsugi/
Excellent US carrier air wing and deployment site. Large collection of
deployments of wings and carriers. Information is updates and generally
reliable.
Chinese Defense Today:
http://www.sinodefence.com/
Excellent current Chinese Orbat site. Author keeps abrest of current
Chinese developments. Site still infant and will seemingly get better
as time progresses.
China Defense .com
http://www.china-defense.com/
Another nice Chinese Order of battle site. This site has been around
for awhile but provides some nice base and orbat information. Another
one that will get better as time progresses. Is also home of a nice
forum (JOIN!).
Soviet Airbases
http://www.russianairfields.com/list.htm
Comprehensive listing as well as clickable map. Even some satellite shots.
Air Combat Information Group (ACIG):
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/index.shtml
Not really a orbat site but some very good researched articles that
are very useful to scenario writers. Many ideas on how airforces are
employed and historical data on the action taken.
French Fleet Air Arm
http://frenchnavy.free.fr/version-english.htm
Really nice French Naval Aviation Site. Lots of Orbats throughout history.
Index of Russian Ship Names:
http://www.webcom.com/~amraam/shipind.html
Pretty good listing of names and hull numbers.
The Royal Navy Postwar
http://britishwarships.cjb.net/
Nice Royal Navy page covering post WWII years. Good information especially relevant to early cold war orbats.
Bharat Rhakshak:The Consortium of Indian Military Websites
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/
Really nice Indian orbats and histories. Stay away from the forum.
MAPS:
Perry Castaneda Libary Collection (U of Texas):
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Huge collection of world wide maps in .gif, .pdf and .jpeg format.
Expedia (Map Engine):
http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?qscr=mmfn
Nice map engine. Punch in the places name and a map will be generated.
All maps can be manipulated in terms of size, location and zoom.
Maritime Trade Routes:
http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ ... outes.html
Just a general map showing the general flow of maritime trade around the
world.
ESRI Data Downloader:
http://arcdata.esri.com/data_downloader ... 80&maxy=90
The place to get those GIS files. Simply enter your search parameters and a zipped file will be created containing simple GIS Data (Roads, Rivers, Rail, borders, Cities) files. Simply place in the same folder as your Harpoon 3 .scn or .sav file.
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