During the battle for the Atlantic, merchant mariners had a saying. When on a cargo vessel, sleep above the sheets with clothes and boots on. When in an oil tanker put on your pajamas and sleep under the covers.
@@dl0g09 when on a regular cargo vessel (unless it's an ammo ship) you need to be ready for a torpedo attack to abandon ship When on a tanker, the ship will go down so quickly, you might as well not bother with preparation and just accept fate
I think the royal navy was confused by the sound of your hull slamming into that shoal repeatedly. Probably had some captain thinking "that cant be a sub. No commander in their right mind would run aground on that shoal in the same spot again and again. Must have been a pod of whales beaching themselves."
Hydrophone operator: "But Sir... The whale said Los! Schneller!" Commander: "Enough! There is no questioning my experience young sailor, you'll get demoted next time you give me a false report. Whales can't speak german obviously. Get your sanity checked mate."
I can only imagine the alert was an officer looking the captain dead in the face and saying "We should be careful, there may be a shoal ahead." as they reversed.
@@hithere7382 Yes, people get killed in wars their countries are neutral in. 5000 Irish volunteers died (out of 70,000) as part of the UK army, around 100 civilians died (accidental bombing of Irish cities, Irish sailors, …) And I can imagine some more died by visiting, say, England or as passengers on planes and ships of possibly belligerent nations. Timor, Papua New Guinea, Denmark and Norway had more deaths than Ireland.
30:30 Damn, would've loved to have seen him take that mission off the coast of Africa, and try and make it there and back in his little Type IID - That would have been *epic* 😆
Oh, right, that bay! Learned myself there's a big shallow patch on the north side. You can see it in map view in daylight. Left some hull paint there myself. Also, every spy drop mission I've done, there's MTB's that will exiting whatever bay the drop is in. I usually pick them up on hydro and they leave the area.
Clear day, mild tide, half moon. Today is a very suitable day for agent insertion in Ireland. I will enjoy my pint of Guinness while awaiting Captain Wolfpack's agent to make contact :P
Wolfpack345 - Just want to say a big THANK YOU for these videos. I came here for Sea Power and found Uboat. Been learning by watching this great video series the past couple of weeks. I have come to feel U-137 is a kindred spirit and was genuinely concerned towards the end where things looked dire. Now, if only my actual game experience felt as natural and fun as what I see here. Ha! Salute, sir!
I think the shoaling was actually a blessing in disguise. The Brits probably thought you were out of the area already, and thus, you snuck away in their baffles.
It's like a mosquito landing on your balls. You question yourself at this very moment if you really want to crush it or not, or if your life has a meaning.
17:22 T2 tanker, 159m, 9.1m draft. Aimed at the bow end of the central super structure, hits about 1/3rd hull length sternward of the aiming point. AoB ~90°, range 2000m, torpedo speed 44 kts, enemy estimated speed 6 kts. What was the real speed of the T2? 44 kts = 22.636 m/s 2000 m / 22.636 m/s = 88.355 s 53 m / 88.355 s = 0.6 m/s = 1.17 kts The tanker was doing *7.2 knots.* And you could have set the depth to 6 or 8 meters with no problem - deeper holes press in water more strongly and deeper explosions are better tamped by the water pressure - not that it really matters, seeing that the tanker became a no-resurface sub.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has run aground a uboat 😂 did that last night in the type VII B after rescuing the kriegsmarine officer, no warning of shoals or nothing but I wasn’t able to get out like you did, nicely done
Congrats on the big bump in subs and views. I checked your social blade. Wow what a spike since summer. Seems like you have a bit more zeal about these series too! Been watching since you got me through covid in 2020
New vid is up, let's go! I literally just finished watching another one of your older Cold Waters Dot Mod videos, Ticonderoga-class cruiser surface engagement against Soviet landing force
I have flashbacks of that time I got stuck in the fjords trying to exit Narvik through the northern trails after refueling. I thought I was smarter than the game plotting a shorter course and this happened. Hard stuck. I think the game does model changing sea levels though. One thing for sure: you can understand why viking longships were invented and could sail in shallow waters. Just not uboats.
I live in a town on Clew bays coastline. It is a shallow bay with many small islands. There is a fjord near here that is said to have had a Uboat taken shelter during a storm and another came in to collect fresh water, but there doesn't seem to be much evidence to either story. This was a fun video for me to watch 😄
May start doing that. My capt has a good solid rep, and I chose missions to be only slightly varied, so might work if I'm tired of regular tonnage patrols.
@@Tyrunner0097 i never take tonnage patrols lol ships you sink on regular missions count towards tonnage anyway. I just never see the point unless I just want to sink ships, even then you can unlock the free roam option from the commanding officer and just go wherever you want, and patrol whatever you want lol
I did this mission last weekend. I too am sick of other U boats ruining a well planned attack! I sunk a ship and in escaping dropped a decoy next to the other sub then went deep and quiet. They chased and sunk him instead! Didn't know you can control the other sub, will look into that. Looked at going north but surveyed it and found too shallow, went out and did a huge loop to get back to port safe.
Hey man USN started escorting convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic on September 13 1941 and continued throughout the end of the war. The merchant marine started in 1940 if I recall correctly.
I hold your content in the highest regard. Your RUclips videos are unparalleled in their professionalism, technical proficiency, and insightful commentary. Keep up the great work! The new Sea Power game is looking to be an exceptionally good ASW game. I am looking forward to your next iteration of this game.
I see a bunch of US ships in British convoys pre-Pearl Harbor in vanilla. The game considers neutrals travelling to belligerent ports as valid targets, so neutrals in convoys are fair game.
Hey Wolfpack! Do you have any book recommendations on aviation or naval warfare? Thanks in advance and keep up the excellent work, have a great weekend
Most of us just play these games and google whatever we're curious about, at least that's how I learned. As far as aviation/naval warfare you can't go wrong with Shattered Sword and Eagles of the Southern Sky. Both are expensive though, and can only be attained second-hand.
"Captain, the enemy is hunting our sub!" Captain: "Hang on, I have a plan!" Later: "Captain, we've run aground!" Captain: "Exactly! They'd never think to look for a submarine ON LAND!"
While i know the frustration of an AI u-boat ruining your surprise attack, i do feel like its a reasonable thing to simulate. I'm sure there were times of uboats having no idea there were others engaged until the convoy gets attacked from an angle that is not them Its more interesting if you have no idea where/who the other U-boat is and suddenly all the escorts go tearing off in a random direction, sometimes that gives quite an opportunity as well.
Great video, good job... You do quality work. I am thinking about streaming games, I have all the equipment, just never pulled the trigger.. and this game, and UA: Dreadnaughts are the first two I want to do... Wish me luck, I have no idea what I'm doing lol but YOU sir have inspired me. You, Taff in Exile, Brother Monro, and a couple others have given me thousands of hours of entertainment, much appreciated :)
I know it is too much to ask of the Devs but icebergs in season would make some of the northern most missions extra hazardous and potentially beneficial at the same time. GENERAL QUARTERS, MODDERS, set material condition Zebra throughout the boat.
It seems like there is an awful lot of room when it shows like the engine room. Is that an accurate representation of how much room the sub has or just does it seem bigger due to being a video game? I’ve always thought the crew was pretty cramped up
There is a lot more stuff cramped into Uboats than modeled in the game. Its extremely bare bones in game, proportions arent acurate aswell. IRL Uboats of all types, wether 2, 7, 9 or 21 had to make very efficient use of any and all available space. Engenieering, cables, gauges, baterries, piping, crew bunks, torpedoes, deck ammo, kitchen, steering, diving equipment, maps, radio, hydrophone and tons of things more took up space. Not to forget that any spare space would be stuffed to the brink with food. You can get a good feeling with a quick google image search for ww2 Uboat engine room.
It's definitely more spacious than the real uboats. It's a design choice since you can walk in the boat in this game and don't want to get stuck with the AI everywhere and the AI pathing would conflict, which it used to in the command room pretty easily.
Irish Coast guard " .. did you hear that bell . ? " British HQ " .. WHAtT? .." Irish Coast Guard " sounded like a deep, under water bell chiming .. like ?? .. hmmm, not sure .." British HQ " .. Off the Whisky , me thinks .." :D
I would avoid going after any convoys in favour of landing that agent. Still, that's up to you! If a secret landing mission should take priority - then it should do so!
Nice. I do wonder is there a point to potentially upgrading the deck gun from a flak gun to a cannon as it might prove more helpful for taking down merchant vessels. On a side note, if you had more torpedoes could you use torpedoes effectively against escort ships? I do wonder if you could lay mines in the path of a convoy and if it would allow you to stay undetected.
It was but not all of those are. After that many spy missions are just regular missions. This mission set is mostly about weather stations and exploring remote islands really. Not much in the way of sinking freighters.
To be honest, if you hadn't been able to escape from the sand bar that probably would have been a pretty good end of the war for the men onboard. The boat would have been lost, but they were close to the coast and the weather wasn't that bad. So everyone could easily have evacuated by dingy to the shore. The republic of Ireland was neutral in ww2, so the crew would have been safe there, if not allowed to return home until after the war ended.
@@willywonka6487 The one conflict of the last century where it was good Vs evil and Ireland couldn't decide which one to support. Nazism Vs Allies. 🤔 Let's stay neutral and see what happens.
They were openly friendly towards Germany during ww2, just didn't want to openly oppose the UK. Their envoy in Berlin even went so far as to send formal condolences to the German state (such as it was) in 1945 in the last days before their surrender, on the death of their learder... Pretty much the only person to do so.
9:35 - The picture of the tanker in the Ship ID manual is that of a JAPANESE Type 1TM tanker...they're using a nation that's not even in the game! 😂😂😂 13:42 - That's why I rarely attack convoys in SH3, especially if there's other U-boats about. They attack and cause the merchants to zigzag, spoiling my aim. Most of the time I can find better targets traveling alone, anyways. Ironically, the only time I ever sighted RMS Queen Mary in SH3 was in the middle of a convoy that was going at 7 KNOTS! No way she would've been part of a convoy like that!
17:02 by that point, if i was a U boat commander and knew U-137 was in the area, i would have just left and prayd to god that i didnt anger whatever angry god is sinking all other u boats that get in U-137's "way"
Considering how complex and involved it is to fire a torpedo... I wonder how much higher the average intelligence of good Uboat crews was compared to the general population. Doing complex calculations while under extreme pressure... I struggle with easy calculations while under minimal pressure :D
I’ve heard the “it doesn’t matter much what the range is when firing at 90 degrees” thing before but I do not understand it. I would think a longer range would mean more torpedo travel time would mean that the target would have traveled farther and so the torpedo would need to pull more lead. Is it just that at relatively short ranges the torpedo is fast enough that the difference is small?
Any hull wouldn't take the situation well! And with the working with other U-Boats ! There's a bigger risk of doing so! Other captains will decide to attack! Independent of other factors! Mind you. He did end up deep sixing 24:12
During the battle for the Atlantic, merchant mariners had a saying. When on a cargo vessel, sleep above the sheets with clothes and boots on. When in an oil tanker put on your pajamas and sleep under the covers.
yikes
I might be dumb but, what does these mean?
@dl0g09 It means if your on a tanker and it gets hit by a sub you won't have to worry about getting out. A.K.A explosives and oil don't mix well.
@@dl0g09 when on a regular cargo vessel (unless it's an ammo ship) you need to be ready for a torpedo attack to abandon ship
When on a tanker, the ship will go down so quickly, you might as well not bother with preparation and just accept fate
and sadly they couldn't or wouldn't stop to pick up survivors
I think the royal navy was confused by the sound of your hull slamming into that shoal repeatedly. Probably had some captain thinking "that cant be a sub. No commander in their right mind would run aground on that shoal in the same spot again and again. Must have been a pod of whales beaching themselves."
Hydrophone operator: "But Sir... The whale said Los! Schneller!"
Commander: "Enough! There is no questioning my experience young sailor, you'll get demoted next time you give me a false report. Whales can't speak german obviously. Get your sanity checked mate."
@@RonJeremy514 That _would_ be the thinking of a Royal Navy Officer, yes.
Meanwhile all the hyrdophone keeps picking up is more metallic banginh followed by the skipper shouting "Scheiße!" after each impact.
02:30 If you can't find this agent, it means he's really good.
😂
Or he’s in tube 3…
He's completed his government courses in how to not be seen
As you can see, the Type II is an effective coastal submarine. Such a good coastal submarine that it ends up grinding the shoals.
The hunting party certainly didn't expect you attempting the land route. Next-level tactics right there!
Just like the Vikings
@@hughman4644 I don't think the British would be to happy about some Germans using a portage trail for a u boat. Might raise more than a few eyebrows.
They didn't call the Type II U-boat a 'dugout canoe' for nothing! 😆
I can only imagine the alert was an officer looking the captain dead in the face and saying "We should be careful, there may be a shoal ahead." as they reversed.
Here we go 137, sneaky sneaky secret agent! Can’t even find him on the boat!
German agent deployed to Ireland with a cover name of “Fritz”. That about as good as BDU messaging to Wolfpack: “The convoy is to the left”
Ireland was neutral, not a belligerent.
@@advorak8529 7,507 Irishmen died in the War despite this.
@@hithere7382 Yes, people get killed in wars their countries are neutral in.
5000 Irish volunteers died (out of 70,000) as part of the UK army, around 100 civilians died (accidental bombing of Irish cities, Irish sailors, …)
And I can imagine some more died by visiting, say, England or as passengers on planes and ships of possibly belligerent nations.
Timor, Papua New Guinea, Denmark and Norway had more deaths than Ireland.
Those places also had nasty run ins with Nazis and IJN style crazed japanese people.
30:30
Damn, would've loved to have seen him take that mission off the coast of Africa, and try and make it there and back in his little Type IID - That would have been *epic* 😆
Mission objective - get the agent to shore safely. Knowledge of enemy presence on approach - unknown. "Hey lets dump crucial ammo on a random convoy"
Oh, right, that bay! Learned myself there's a big shallow patch on the north side. You can see it in map view in daylight. Left some hull paint there myself.
Also, every spy drop mission I've done, there's MTB's that will exiting whatever bay the drop is in. I usually pick them up on hydro and they leave the area.
cant wait for the sinking physics rework
new viewer here, really great format you have. Been binging your videos as far back as 4 years old.
Clear day, mild tide, half moon. Today is a very suitable day for agent insertion in Ireland. I will enjoy my pint of Guinness while awaiting Captain Wolfpack's agent to make contact :P
Pint? Beer?
“The snow is quite cool” - Wolfpack345 2024
Hey, not all of us are used to snow - As a Florida Man, I didn't see proper snow until I was a teenager 🙃
@@thisherehandleIdospout consider the other meaning of the word cool
@@RampantFirefly ...
...Okay, I walked right into that one 😂💩
Wolfpack345 - Just want to say a big THANK YOU for these videos. I came here for Sea Power and found Uboat. Been learning by watching this great video series the past couple of weeks. I have come to feel U-137 is a kindred spirit and was genuinely concerned towards the end where things looked dire. Now, if only my actual game experience felt as natural and fun as what I see here. Ha! Salute, sir!
Fascinating going back to this era after watching so much modern content. Not much ‘em on, no radar, no choppers. Very different game
I think the shoaling was actually a blessing in disguise. The Brits probably thought you were out of the area already, and thus, you snuck away in their baffles.
I like the type 2 it doesn't bite like a tiger but it stings like a mosquito. Loved the episode great work.
It's like a mosquito landing on your balls. You question yourself at this very moment if you really want to crush it or not, or if your life has a meaning.
@RonJeremy514 Then you learn what it truly means to solve problems without violence
@@Rudi_Winklaa so true
" Generally you can see the smoke before the crew calls it out " yes I've found that one out the hard way
26:06 I got flashbacks to that "Whiskey on the Rocks" incident in sweden 1981..
17:22 T2 tanker, 159m, 9.1m draft.
Aimed at the bow end of the central super structure, hits about 1/3rd hull length sternward of the aiming point. AoB ~90°, range 2000m, torpedo speed 44 kts, enemy estimated speed 6 kts.
What was the real speed of the T2?
44 kts = 22.636 m/s
2000 m / 22.636 m/s = 88.355 s
53 m / 88.355 s = 0.6 m/s = 1.17 kts
The tanker was doing *7.2 knots.*
And you could have set the depth to 6 or 8 meters with no problem - deeper holes press in water more strongly and deeper explosions are better tamped by the water pressure - not that it really matters, seeing that the tanker became a no-resurface sub.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has run aground a uboat 😂 did that last night in the type VII B after rescuing the kriegsmarine officer, no warning of shoals or nothing but I wasn’t able to get out like you did, nicely done
Congrats on the big bump in subs and views. I checked your social blade. Wow what a spike since summer. Seems like you have a bit more zeal about these series too! Been watching since you got me through covid in 2020
Its been years. Time to resume wolfpack. For some incredible submarine content. I need some cold waters hehe (pun intended)
New vid is up, let's go!
I literally just finished watching another one of your older Cold Waters Dot Mod videos, Ticonderoga-class cruiser surface engagement against Soviet landing force
Think if you were a type 7 you would be stuck for good.
I have flashbacks of that time I got stuck in the fjords trying to exit Narvik through the northern trails after refueling. I thought I was smarter than the game plotting a shorter course and this happened. Hard stuck. I think the game does model changing sea levels though. One thing for sure: you can understand why viking longships were invented and could sail in shallow waters. Just not uboats.
fritz was hiding in a torpedo 😂😂😂
I live in a town on Clew bays coastline. It is a shallow bay with many small islands. There is a fjord near here that is said to have had a Uboat taken shelter during a storm and another came in to collect fresh water, but there doesn't seem to be much evidence to either story. This was a fun video for me to watch 😄
You can use your reputation to increase possible missions to 5 to have more choices. Thats one of the first things I do in a playthrough
May start doing that. My capt has a good solid rep, and I chose missions to be only slightly varied, so might work if I'm tired of regular tonnage patrols.
@@Tyrunner0097 i never take tonnage patrols lol ships you sink on regular missions count towards tonnage anyway. I just never see the point unless I just want to sink ships, even then you can unlock the free roam option from the commanding officer and just go wherever you want, and patrol whatever you want lol
I did this mission last weekend. I too am sick of other U boats ruining a well planned attack! I sunk a ship and in escaping dropped a decoy next to the other sub then went deep and quiet. They chased and sunk him instead! Didn't know you can control the other sub, will look into that. Looked at going north but surveyed it and found too shallow, went out and did a huge loop to get back to port safe.
Great story telling. The agent has probably stowed away in the head!
Just so you're aware, the game accounts for tides; if the sea level is low, you might encounter hazardous sandbanks and risk getting your boat stuck.
Btw Atlantic theater operations gives ship upgrade point I think, so missions in atlantic like landing agent, weather station and such.
Hey man USN started escorting convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic on September 13 1941 and continued throughout the end of the war. The merchant marine started in 1940 if I recall correctly.
More story and tension than any movie, especially in today's Hollywood.
Wolfpack truly among the GOAT of subsim players.
Friday, early weekend, load of beans and bacon for lunch and a fresh episode of uboat.
Perfect
I hope this series never ends its your best ever.
You were knocking Barnacles off the bottom of your hull.
Seeing you run aground once makes me feel better about the 100+ times it's happened to me!
I hold your content in the highest regard.
Your RUclips videos are unparalleled in their professionalism, technical proficiency, and insightful commentary.
Keep up the great work!
The new Sea Power game is looking to be an exceptionally good ASW game.
I am looking forward to your next iteration of this game.
I see a bunch of US ships in British convoys pre-Pearl Harbor in vanilla.
The game considers neutrals travelling to belligerent ports as valid targets, so neutrals in convoys are fair game.
Hey Wolfpack! Do you have any book recommendations on aviation or naval warfare? Thanks in advance and keep up the excellent work, have a great weekend
Most of us just play these games and google whatever we're curious about, at least that's how I learned.
As far as aviation/naval warfare you can't go wrong with Shattered Sword and Eagles of the Southern Sky.
Both are expensive though, and can only be attained second-hand.
Another exciting, educational and stimulating video. Thank you.
6:17 “she’s got A thick stack..”
👀👀👀
@@thisherehandleIdospout haha! Some stacks are thicker than others.. ahhh your fathers been tellin ya stories again huh?
23:40 usually how it works
Maaaan, you and the ground... words fail me. lol
Hey Wolfpack, the developers are making a DLC that includes a type IX U-boat!!
"Captain, the enemy is hunting our sub!"
Captain: "Hang on, I have a plan!"
Later:
"Captain, we've run aground!"
Captain: "Exactly! They'd never think to look for a submarine ON LAND!"
While i know the frustration of an AI u-boat ruining your surprise attack, i do feel like its a reasonable thing to simulate. I'm sure there were times of uboats having no idea there were others engaged until the convoy gets attacked from an angle that is not them
Its more interesting if you have no idea where/who the other U-boat is and suddenly all the escorts go tearing off in a random direction, sometimes that gives quite an opportunity as well.
10:18 i think that stack i perfectly adequate.. and it has a great personality some might even say it's above average
Crazy stranding, really nail biting for a moment there
an award for running aground? Must be the New Zealand Navy award
Great video, good job... You do quality work. I am thinking about streaming games, I have all the equipment, just never pulled the trigger.. and this game, and UA: Dreadnaughts are the first two I want to do... Wish me luck, I have no idea what I'm doing lol but YOU sir have inspired me. You, Taff in Exile, Brother Monro, and a couple others have given me thousands of hours of entertainment, much appreciated :)
I know it is too much to ask of the Devs but icebergs in season would make some of the northern most missions extra hazardous and potentially beneficial at the same time. GENERAL QUARTERS, MODDERS, set material condition Zebra throughout the boat.
Radio in later. Less chance of "friendly" U-boats turning up and giving the attack away.
26:05 iconic moment
It's a real shame Clew Bay isn't modelled more closely to reality, with its numerous small islands & sandbanks.
The agent was so secret, even the captain did not find him.
Crazy to think that the series was almost derailed like that!
[2024.1]Real Navigation mod was just updated. I'm passing this along, hoping that you might incorporate this into your mod list. Happy hunting!!!
It seems like there is an awful lot of room when it shows like the engine room. Is that an accurate representation of how much room the sub has or just does it seem bigger due to being a video game? I’ve always thought the crew was pretty cramped up
The Type VII is a lot more cramped in the engine room. Not sure how realistic the space in the Type 2 is or isn't though.
There is a lot more stuff cramped into Uboats than modeled in the game. Its extremely bare bones in game, proportions arent acurate aswell. IRL Uboats of all types, wether 2, 7, 9 or 21 had to make very efficient use of any and all available space. Engenieering, cables, gauges, baterries, piping, crew bunks, torpedoes, deck ammo, kitchen, steering, diving equipment, maps, radio, hydrophone and tons of things more took up space. Not to forget that any spare space would be stuffed to the brink with food. You can get a good feeling with a quick google image search for ww2 Uboat engine room.
It's definitely more spacious than the real uboats. It's a design choice since you can walk in the boat in this game and don't want to get stuck with the AI everywhere and the AI pathing would conflict, which it used to in the command room pretty easily.
i enjoy your videos. being a recovering alcoholic i miss playing games. u do a great job at it.
wow, running aground is not something you see every day in subsim videos. that made me feel nervous, lol. pretty cool
A baltic sea mini campaign with the Finnish navy would be kinda cool. Maybe some day...
Irish Coast guard " .. did you hear that bell . ? "
British HQ " .. WHAtT? .."
Irish Coast Guard " sounded like a deep, under water bell chiming .. like ?? .. hmmm, not sure .."
British HQ " .. Off the Whisky , me thinks .." :D
You can be glad that the BDU didn't deduct the dent removal and repainting from your pay.
the spy was taking a nap in a torpedo tube
I hope you get upgraded to the type VII soon. I'd really like to see it in action and see how well you can do with a much larger torpedo complement.
Where do you find your mods for this game? the workshop?
Definately
No views? Lemme change that
Vid realesed like 2 min ago
I really enjoy your videos, as a big fan of SH3. Please keep them coming.
You should play Deep Purple song "Smoke on the water" when you spot smoke on the horizon
I would avoid going after any convoys in favour of landing that agent. Still, that's up to you! If a secret landing mission should take priority - then it should do so!
Video released faster than I though. Thnak you.
Nice. I do wonder is there a point to potentially upgrading the deck gun from a flak gun to a cannon as it might prove more helpful for taking down merchant vessels. On a side note, if you had more torpedoes could you use torpedoes effectively against escort ships?
I do wonder if you could lay mines in the path of a convoy and if it would allow you to stay undetected.
I think land the spy was atlantic theather mission
It was but not all of those are. After that many spy missions are just regular missions. This mission set is mostly about weather stations and exploring remote islands really. Not much in the way of sinking freighters.
To be honest, if you hadn't been able to escape from the sand bar that probably would have been a pretty good end of the war for the men onboard. The boat would have been lost, but they were close to the coast and the weather wasn't that bad. So everyone could easily have evacuated by dingy to the shore. The republic of Ireland was neutral in ww2, so the crew would have been safe there, if not allowed to return home until after the war ended.
How brave of Ireland to be neutral during WW2. 😢
During WW2 it was way harder and braver to stay neutral as both Allies and Axis constantly manipulated and threatened neutrals@@jcrosby4804
@@jcrosby4804 nothing changed in the world as a result of anyones bravery. genocides still happen, and far bigger ones
@@willywonka6487 The one conflict of the last century where it was good Vs evil and Ireland couldn't decide which one to support. Nazism Vs Allies. 🤔 Let's stay neutral and see what happens.
They were openly friendly towards Germany during ww2, just didn't want to openly oppose the UK.
Their envoy in Berlin even went so far as to send formal condolences to the German state (such as it was) in 1945 in the last days before their surrender, on the death of their learder... Pretty much the only person to do so.
As usual, it's an excellent video. Thank you, Wolfpack345.
9:35 - The picture of the tanker in the Ship ID manual is that of a JAPANESE Type 1TM tanker...they're using a nation that's not even in the game! 😂😂😂
13:42 - That's why I rarely attack convoys in SH3, especially if there's other U-boats about. They attack and cause the merchants to zigzag, spoiling my aim. Most of the time I can find better targets traveling alone, anyways. Ironically, the only time I ever sighted RMS Queen Mary in SH3 was in the middle of a convoy that was going at 7 KNOTS! No way she would've been part of a convoy like that!
Technically Japan is in the game... Won't spoil though.
Try holding ALT when on map mode. It will bring up uboats that are near you and you can send them orders.
17:02 by that point, if i was a U boat commander and knew U-137 was in the area, i would have just left and prayd to god that i didnt anger whatever angry god is sinking all other u boats that get in U-137's "way"
wtf is 'prayd'
Are you going to do a full series on this game at some point a-la SH3 style? Maybe a few 100% realism runs from the start of the war until death/end?
The Atlantic is deceptive! There are shallow points on the British Isles side.
Considering how complex and involved it is to fire a torpedo... I wonder how much higher the average intelligence of good Uboat crews was compared to the general population. Doing complex calculations while under extreme pressure... I struggle with easy calculations while under minimal pressure :D
I had the same problem with the low water height😂
Dad with another Banger video!
I’ve heard the “it doesn’t matter much what the range is when firing at 90 degrees” thing before but I do not understand it. I would think a longer range would mean more torpedo travel time would mean that the target would have traveled farther and so the torpedo would need to pull more lead.
Is it just that at relatively short ranges the torpedo is fast enough that the difference is small?
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Wht happens if you sink warships? Will they increase escort ships in convoys or will sub hunter tasks force show up?
Wow... run aground. When that happens to me, I reverse and x48 until I am free. But I do not have collision damage enabled.
Any hull wouldn't take the situation well! And with the working with other U-Boats ! There's a bigger risk of doing so! Other captains will decide to attack! Independent of other factors! Mind you. He did end up deep sixing 24:12
Guess they send the Irish coast after you - and it almost succeeded!
Anyone notice the valves on the engine in the beginning?
The valves on a four stroke diesel engine does not move like that.
Unterseeboot give me goosebumps
what does it help to let more crewmen work on the engines?
are they blowing nitro into the air intake, Fury Road-Style? lol
Have you considered a snorkel yet? Might be a fun way to change things up.
whew close call!
As usual, very cool Video!
Meine Hochachtung, Herr Kaleu!
So, when are you actually going to get a new boat? When the type XXI comes out?