24:31 The likely reason for the "minimal damage" was that the ship was already listing so badly that your torpedo impacted on the main armor belt instead of below it.
Great video! I live in Orkney. In reality, entering Scapa Flow via this route would have posed considerably more challenge. Several islands are unmodelled by the game (I live on one of them, hehe). The eastern approach to the Flow that you used would involve navigating the unmodelled islands of Lamb Holm, Burray, Hunda and Glimps Holm, most of which still have evidence of military presence, though I'm not sure how much was naval defences. And by this stage the already shallow water between these islands may well have been unpassable due to the early stages of construction of the Churchill Barriers, though I'm not sure exactly how much stone had been laid down at this stage. Of course none of that takes away from the fact that this was a blast to watch. :)
Wolfpack, I heard a message from the British in the BDU, they ask to please stop sinking the Nelson, apperantly the sailors start thinking she's cursed
Legit paused the vid at that exact spot to curiously check comments to see if it was just me, or if the 248p quality through the scope at night was for real. Can't see anything at all.
@@memeologist21 youtube compression algorithm fucks dark and busy images even in full HD (1808p), don't know if 2k (1440p) and 4k (2160p) are affected the same
On patch B128, I think you can see the sub nets and minefields on the map if you use some of your reputation points on the BdU HQ mission which gets the Luftwaffe to recon specific areas of the UK coastline. I would expect this is retained in the new patch.
@@Wolfpack345 It would be nice if youtube would let paying customers have less compressed feeds. I'd pay $5/mo more if it would deliver unmolested 1440p.
@@hithere7382 I think that's just ass to be honest, maybe for resolutions higher then 1440p, but 1440p is becoming the new "standard" in everything. I don't like the idea of being charged for something that everyone should have. Good idea for further brainstorming though!
Great video and thanks! My two cents: If the target is stationary than Angle on Bow and Range are meaningless. AoB tells the TDC the change in range (+/-) at any future moment and it (along with speed) calculates lead angle. Therefore, if the target speed is zero, than lead is...well...zero. Meaning, AoB is irrelevant. If the input speed is "Zero", than the ONLY other factor needed to hit is the bearing. Even Range can be ignored as the fish will follow the bearing until it hits or runs out of "go juice". Good luck and Good Hunting
@@johnmc6155 He's very good. (Sub Cdr and Flight Sim gamer). Jack of all Trades - master of none. I enjoy his vids and I am deeply thankful for him keeping SH (and SUBSIM) alive.
I mention that the range of my torpedoes is 5km. While this would have been true if I was using G7e torpedoes, I was using G7a torpedoes. Which have a longer range at the 30 knot setting. Just wanted to clear that up. Thanks for watching everyone! I hope you enjoyed the video. Expect more U-boat content soon. Looking into getting U-Boat for yourself? Consider grabbing the game from my nexus store. Where a portion of the purchase goes to the channel. www.nexus.gg/Wolfpack345
@Jack the Gestaporemember asking for a quarter so I could play first video game, now I am watching video editing tutorials by a young man who doesn't remember exactly when or how he learned the skill set
Man this mission has changed so much since this playthrough! I barely escaped by the skin of my teeth with a whole bunch of dead crew, I lucked out as the fastest ship chasing me ran out of depth charges!
yes, I made in today and it's really hard. Also I had no chance to attack from surface, because DDs would see mee, and Royal Oak was parked behind them. After 4h hours (REAL TIME!), loading, saving, dodging bombs finally I escaped. That was one of the hardest experiences in my 25 year gaming history :P
After my like 5th try with 98% realism and only saving in ports it took me like 6 hours but on my final try I got lucky and sank the battleship and then as I was doging ships and running away another friendly submraine showed up and do there were only 3 warships chasing me instead of like 20 also the AI sub sank 2 warships lol
Minimal damage on that last Nelson torpedo was due to the list of the Nelson from the first four torpedoes. Essentially your last torpedo struck the Nelson on her belt armor, which is of course designed to withstand the impact of 14+ inch high velocity armor piercing naval artillery shells.
The free cam and the cinematics really use the graphics to a maximum, it seems so different from playing the game to look at those cinematic shots against the sun or waters reflexion. Rly nice job man :)
My family is mostly Orcadian, it's a wonderful place and this was really neat! U-47, on its attack run against the Royal Oak, came in so close to St. Anne's that the crew allegedly heard music from the hall. A bicyclist also saw the Sub but didn't raise any alarm as he didn't realise it was an enemy ship. The gap between the Sou. Eastern Road of St. Anne's and Lamb Holm, the mainland and island you went between (where the Churchill barriers would go) is thinner in reality. The scope of the map seems a bit off, but not drastically. Mind, it might be the way I'm interpreting the map. As for torpedo and anti subbing nets, whilst they may or may not be in the game, there was a substantial football sized area (possibly much larger) on Hoy that repaired huge swathes of them to get dragged across the other entry routes into Scapa.
Excellent video, just love these missions, although the irony being that Priens mission was only possible because a block ship was missing, which enabled him access, it was missing because it was sunk on way up the east coast.....by a u-boat 🐺 👍
You've made me go and start playing it again. I Love seeing all these updates and would love to see more from them. This is just an amazing update and can't wait to see what they do next.
That was interesting. It seemed far easier than I anticipated. The only letdown was only one capital ship. I had hoped for the whole of the Home Fleet. There i go again with being greedy lol.
I did this mission multiple times but I've never succeeded in escaping Scapa Flow. Günter Prien was also very lucky in 1939. Most people say he was unlucky because there were almost no ships in Scapa Flow but I think that he was lucky with that so that he could escape without being seen. A few hours after he escaped the British launched a destroyer to search for him. They first didn't realize it was a U-boat and weren't prepared for it.Thats the only time an enemy U-boat had successfully attacked Scapa Flow(until now). In my opinion it's the most successful U-boat operation after paukenschlag (drumbeat). Even though Prien sunk just 1 ship (HMS Royal ark), he definitely ruined the British moral. Scapa Flow was evacuated after that and in the proces another few ships were sunk by German mines. Nice video btw 😉
I actually have a 1940 version from Günther Priens book "Mein weg nach Scapa Flow" its a good read if you are interested in commercial shipping during the 20s (Surprisingly it even has pictures).
You just made my buy this game. You picked up my conciousness and dragged it by the mouse to the buy now button, and updated to latest beta, and then when it didn't look right, MODs.
I can confirm that there are in fact sub nets in the game as well as mines. I ran into both on my second visit to Scapa. Never saw anything bigger than a destroyer though
Looks like the Corvette was modelled after HMCS Snowberry K166. I've built a couple models of it through the years. Revell make a pretty decent kit that's very easy to convert to remote control. Great fun.
love this game,i worked with a furnaceman who was a stoker on the royal oak & who had just sat down in the mainland pub for a drink & some r&r when he heard the explosions
Yes I watched all the uboat gameplay twice already. I’m thrilled for this new one. Watching it on a 75inch tv. Bro Wolfpack you got amazing eyesight. I was on twitch when you did the live stream..love this channel
I thought the battleship would be in the port. I thought the game wouldn't be leading me by the nose to the location of the boat, instead leading me to the bay or whatever. Four tries later, I found out there IS no port. Four tries of different levels of sneakiness; depth control; speed control; crew management, and frustration. Then I find your video. You stroll in without submerging, not giving a shit, happily accidentally spot your mission target, shoot it, and leave. After taking a page from your book, I also went in on the surface. I also spotted the battleship easily. Then the fog came, making my AI lose the target and the TDC settings I'd input every time I locked the target. Then I found out the hard way that the torpedoes have a max range of 5km, wasting 4, while at the same time the stern torpedo decided it also wanted a go despite me never actually flooding tube 5. This left me with 4 more bow torpedoes and 1 stern. Firing off the 4 bow torpedoes, 2 decided to run off in a random 45 degree angle while 1 was a dud and the other actually did quite well. Not enough to sink the ship, though! But GODDAMN, this was 4 hours of my life! Time to go make dinner, I think.
Wow. I did this mission multiple times. Nelson wasn't there, it was further out near the OG mission pip or farther West. I had to try to sneak past 10-15 destroyers. I didn't even fire. They heard my electric motors on ahead slow at 20m depth from over 1km away and blew the crap out of me. All four tries. Even after scouting it with the headquarters mission I STILL got blown to bits almost instantly while dodging the sub nets and mines. I don't understand how that black swan didn't see or hear you at 2.5Km and immediately drag you with depth charges. The one time I fired at anything I ended up with 8 destroyers on me with in 2 minutes.
That wasn't just any warship, it was actually THE Royal Oak. Well done Wolf. Just alive and well, two years after she was sunk by U-47... So, alternate history in game.
That 5th Torpedo was a beautiful shot but with the list I imagine that with it running shallow you likely struck the deck armor. Granted I'm pretty sure 5 torpedo hits with that sort of flooding spread is going to be fatal for a crew that is sitting in harbor not expecting to need damage control.
Haha loved it and when I did this mission I just shot full speed right through and launched as many torps as I could cause they spotted me before I could get sights on the battleship
The probl with youtube is that use a VP9 codec and a reduced numbers off level. so the 0 to 255 levels in RBG become 16 to 236 in youtube codec. There is a color space setting in every all good photo/ video éditor to fix that or you ca do it manually with "light/contrast"...
I feel like the eastern approach should have several scuttled ships and be a lot narrower and shallower if memory serves. Silent hunter 3 modelled that quite nicely ( may of been the GWX mod though, can’t remember for sure) I remember having to be very careful fitting between the scuttled corpses and feeling very vulnerable
By the way, I recommend the Sinking Physics overhaul mod. It eliminates such absurdities when you have to launch countless torpedoes at the target in order to sink it, remember there such actions when I hit a destroyer with a torpedo and he had "life" that the green bar was barely visible and only one shot was enough after surfacing. 8,8 guns to sink it. in practice it looked funny because the ship was 80% underwater, only the bow was sticking out. Thanks to this mod, such situations do not happen anymore
How the destroyers can't hear you when you are sailing at normal speed, I was doing a similar mission and after I put the "throttle" on, I immediately sounded the alarm and all the ships started looking for me, I immediately say that I had the cranoscope pump and other noisy things turned off before approaching the port
@@Wolfpack345 it looks like the small islands and block ships (original plus ones added after Prien’s raid) are not modelled in the East passage which is a bit of a bummer :/
@@jamesgriffiths7588 also I think there were several permanent causeways built that blocked off all shipping lanes with the exception of the three main entrances. I think the route Prien used was blocked off shortly thereafter by one of the causeways.
@@codydavenport8429 yeah that’s what I was getting at with my original comment but didn’t want to be too blunt. Realistically after 1939 the East Passage was a passage in name only and was fully blocked. Off the top of my head there were two or three block ships originally, and after Prien’s little escapade two or more additional ones were put in.
@@jamesgriffiths7588 the game is definitely looking better with this most recent update, but I find it weird the developers didn't pay a little more attention to detail on such a major base of Allied shipping.
You are playing the excellent Il-2 1914-18 campaigns and I very much hope there will be a similar First World War UBOAT mod for us to enjoy the birth of underwater warfare
Nets, not sure if the are torpedo nets, are in game. If you came in through the eastern side as suggested by game submerged, you would have met the net from one shore to other. I tried to do this mission in preview 4, but they noticed me (not detected though) and in 5 seconds I had maybe 20 ships circling above me. This is crazy.
That would be amazing but at the same time they could and should add more details to the subs surface ships ECT IMO and also not doing the scuttled fleet would also help with the running of the game cause too many details and you need a 7k PC lol just my insight is all
hard to imagine that no destroyer or other guard was patroling out of the approach channels, only inside Scapa flow... so this was a little bit too easy...
U-Boot crews hated destroyers with a passion. when they found one stationary near the coast and no other high threat around, they got torpedoed. High command might be angry you "wasted" 2 torpedoes on a destroyer, but any other u-boot crew will praise your crew for it. and sinking any ship on a run is better than searching for big fish and returning to the harbour with torpedoes left on your u-boot. In fact, early in the war, some K'Leut's rather "wasted" torpedoes in the books and firering them into the ocean than returning home with them.
I enjoy these, thank you for the effort you put in and sharing it. I hope the developers correct the peculiarly slow movement of the rocker arm & pushrod assembly, take a look at the several examples of u-boot diesels of the period or any period, even at tick-over, but especially at full-chat, they have a purposeful rhythm and the absence of that in this game is jarring.
Serious question about that torpedo mod you mention around the 11:00 mark. Is the action of "pre-heating" a torpedo historically accurate? Or just a feature of this game?
Would love to see more UBOAT. I know it's less realistic that the SH series, but the side-on cutaway or top-down views make it beautiful, easier to follow, and unique.
18:57 no sub nets he says?.... as im literally caught in a sub net while playing right now trynna sneak in the east side of scapa. (it was daytime and i couldnt fully fast forward to night so i cant float over it yet haha dont judge me im sorry)
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24:31 The likely reason for the "minimal damage" was that the ship was already listing so badly that your torpedo impacted on the main armor belt instead of below it.
Great video! I live in Orkney. In reality, entering Scapa Flow via this route would have posed considerably more challenge. Several islands are unmodelled by the game (I live on one of them, hehe). The eastern approach to the Flow that you used would involve navigating the unmodelled islands of Lamb Holm, Burray, Hunda and Glimps Holm, most of which still have evidence of military presence, though I'm not sure how much was naval defences. And by this stage the already shallow water between these islands may well have been unpassable due to the early stages of construction of the Churchill Barriers, though I'm not sure exactly how much stone had been laid down at this stage.
Of course none of that takes away from the fact that this was a blast to watch. :)
Is it nice up in Orkney? I’m in the West Midlands of England and it isn’t as warm as last summer so I was wondering how it was further up north
I was up there this last summer, what a great area! Went to the Italian Church!
Wolfpack, I heard a message from the British in the BDU, they ask to please stop sinking the Nelson, apperantly the sailors start thinking she's cursed
oi lads, who wants to sail on the 13th ship named HMS Nelson? pint of rum to any who'll volunteer
*crickets*
Wolfpack: so there's like destroyers there and there
Me: what destroyers?
I wish nighttime did not look so bad on YT.
@@Wolfpack345 hm is there any way to change it?
Legit paused the vid at that exact spot to curiously check comments to see if it was just me, or if the 248p quality through the scope at night was for real. Can't see anything at all.
@@LeeValentine001 I was watching at 1080p, couldn't see anything until the sub was like under 5000m
@@memeologist21 youtube compression algorithm fucks dark and busy images even in full HD (1808p), don't know if 2k (1440p) and 4k (2160p) are affected the same
19:10 Sub nets are in the game. I'm not sure about Scapa Flow, but there are some in Portsmouth.
Thanks for clarifying that!
They definitely are at scappa flow. Ive encountered them on the western approach
Edit: It was the eastern approach
On patch B128, I think you can see the sub nets and minefields on the map if you use some of your reputation points on the BdU HQ mission which gets the Luftwaffe to recon specific areas of the UK coastline. I would expect this is retained in the new patch.
@NinjaMission They indeed are. But you don't meet them if you stay on the surface
@@Veloxyll depends of the weather , rough waves
so sad youtube absolutely mangeled the night-time periscope action. Could you maybe try raising the brightness while pointing out a target?
Yeah I can try that. It is what I did with SH3 and it seemed to help a little bit.
@@Wolfpack345 It would be nice if youtube would let paying customers have less compressed feeds. I'd pay $5/mo more if it would deliver unmolested 1440p.
@@hithere7382 I think that's just ass to be honest, maybe for resolutions higher then 1440p, but 1440p is becoming the new "standard" in everything. I don't like the idea of being charged for something that everyone should have. Good idea for further brainstorming though!
@@tryrose8334 you misunderstood. RUclips compresses the crap out of everything. I'd pay more for uncompressed footage.
@@hithere7382 That's what I was referring to, paying for uncompressed footage is a silly and abusive idea.
Great video and thanks!
My two cents:
If the target is stationary than Angle on Bow and Range are meaningless. AoB tells the TDC the change in range (+/-) at any future moment and it (along with speed) calculates lead angle. Therefore, if the target speed is zero, than lead is...well...zero. Meaning, AoB is irrelevant.
If the input speed is "Zero", than the ONLY other factor needed to hit is the bearing. Even Range can be ignored as the fish will follow the bearing until it hits or runs out of "go juice".
Good luck and Good Hunting
Yeah Matthew, but Wolfpack doesn't learn.
@@johnmc6155 He's very good. (Sub Cdr and Flight Sim gamer). Jack of all Trades - master of none. I enjoy his vids and I am deeply thankful for him keeping SH (and SUBSIM) alive.
I mention that the range of my torpedoes is 5km. While this would have been true if I was using G7e torpedoes, I was using G7a torpedoes. Which have a longer range at the 30 knot setting. Just wanted to clear that up.
Thanks for watching everyone! I hope you enjoyed the video. Expect more U-boat content soon.
Looking into getting U-Boat for yourself? Consider grabbing the game from my nexus store. Where a portion of the purchase goes to the channel. www.nexus.gg/Wolfpack345
I would to support you, unfortunately I already got the game a few weeks ago
Hi I'm trying to buy the game from your nexus but can't find it, is it normal?
0:51 gotta say it again, I can not believe how far computers have progressed in my lifetime, this game looks beautiful on my phone
It really is impressive for sure!
@Jack the Gestaporemember asking for a quarter so I could play first video game, now I am watching video editing tutorials by a young man who doesn't remember exactly when or how he learned the skill set
The moment we've been waiting for. That's your time to shine boy.
Hope you enjoy!
@@Wolfpack345 Of all the content you provide, this is my favorite.
Yeah!! You're back!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Man this mission has changed so much since this playthrough!
I barely escaped by the skin of my teeth with a whole bunch of dead crew, I lucked out as the fastest ship chasing me ran out of depth charges!
yes, I made in today and it's really hard. Also I had no chance to attack from surface, because DDs would see mee, and Royal Oak was parked behind them. After 4h hours (REAL TIME!), loading, saving, dodging bombs finally I escaped. That was one of the hardest experiences in my 25 year gaming history :P
After my like 5th try with 98% realism and only saving in ports it took me like 6 hours but on my final try I got lucky and sank the battleship and then as I was doging ships and running away another friendly submraine showed up and do there were only 3 warships chasing me instead of like 20 also the AI sub sank 2 warships lol
Minimal damage on that last Nelson torpedo was due to the list of the Nelson from the first four torpedoes. Essentially your last torpedo struck the Nelson on her belt armor, which is of course designed to withstand the impact of 14+ inch high velocity armor piercing naval artillery shells.
The free cam and the cinematics really use the graphics to a maximum, it seems so different from playing the game to look at those cinematic shots against the sun or waters reflexion. Rly nice job man :)
Thanks!
My family is mostly Orcadian, it's a wonderful place and this was really neat!
U-47, on its attack run against the Royal Oak, came in so close to St. Anne's that the crew allegedly heard music from the hall. A bicyclist also saw the Sub but didn't raise any alarm as he didn't realise it was an enemy ship.
The gap between the Sou. Eastern Road of St. Anne's and Lamb Holm, the mainland and island you went between (where the Churchill barriers would go) is thinner in reality. The scope of the map seems a bit off, but not drastically. Mind, it might be the way I'm interpreting the map.
As for torpedo and anti subbing nets, whilst they may or may not be in the game, there was a substantial football sized area (possibly much larger) on Hoy that repaired huge swathes of them to get dragged across the other entry routes into Scapa.
There is a sub net in Scapa flow, if i remember correctly, that is why he stayed above water I think.
Excellent video, just love these missions, although the irony being that Priens mission was only possible because a block ship was missing, which enabled him access, it was missing because it was sunk on way up the east coast.....by a u-boat 🐺 👍
You've made me go and start playing it again. I Love seeing all these updates and would love to see more from them. This is just an amazing update and can't wait to see what they do next.
That was one hell of a run! I bet the royal navy is pissed
That was interesting. It seemed far easier than I anticipated. The only letdown was only one capital ship. I had hoped for the whole of the Home Fleet. There i go again with being greedy lol.
I did this mission multiple times but I've never succeeded in escaping Scapa Flow. Günter Prien was also very lucky in 1939. Most people say he was unlucky because there were almost no ships in Scapa Flow but I think that he was lucky with that so that he could escape without being seen. A few hours after he escaped the British launched a destroyer to search for him. They first didn't realize it was a U-boat and weren't prepared for it.Thats the only time an enemy U-boat had successfully attacked Scapa Flow(until now). In my opinion it's the most successful U-boat operation after paukenschlag (drumbeat). Even though Prien sunk just 1 ship (HMS Royal ark), he definitely ruined the British moral. Scapa Flow was evacuated after that and in the proces another few ships were sunk by German mines. Nice video btw 😉
I actually have a 1940 version from Günther Priens book "Mein weg nach Scapa Flow" its a good read if you are interested in commercial shipping during the 20s (Surprisingly it even has pictures).
NICE!
This is such a magnifiecent game and its so cool and Wolfpack just triples the fun
Thank you! Happy hunting.
@@Wolfpack345 youre welcome, Herr Kapitän
i remember the scapa flow raid being one of the first missions in Silent Hunter II, memories
Me too. However, i recall that mission being a bit more difficult than just sailing in, firing torpedo's and leaving at flank
You just made my buy this game. You picked up my conciousness and dragged it by the mouse to the buy now button, and updated to latest beta, and then when it didn't look right, MODs.
The dislikes come from the Nelsons you've sunk.
And the RN destroyer crews who couldn't find the U Boat
I can confirm that there are in fact sub nets in the game as well as mines. I ran into both on my second visit to Scapa. Never saw anything bigger than a destroyer though
A year later and it's like I'm watching it for the second time. It's just as good as the first time I watched it.
blimey, you done well to get in & out with no hassle
Looks like the Corvette was modelled after HMCS Snowberry K166. I've built a couple models of it through the years. Revell make a pretty decent kit that's very easy to convert to remote control. Great fun.
For the wonderful mission and it was very nice seeing you back underwater all those surprisingly you spent very little time there.
Thanks! I am glad you liked it. I am personally a big fan of surface attacks. I should do them more often :D
love this game,i worked with a furnaceman who was a stoker on the royal oak & who had just sat down in the mainland pub for a drink & some r&r when he heard the explosions
It's always quite cool to see that you start a mission in my hometown^^
Wolfpack you right sacpa flow happened in October 14 1939
Love your videos. Excellent edits and running commentary. Kudos 👌🏻😎👌🏻
Well done Wolfpack, very entertaining. I jumped also when you were startled by the torpedo explosion. Have a great weekend
Well the long night was just as dark as YT compression.
did not see which mods you are using in the game in the description
Yes I watched all the uboat gameplay twice already. I’m thrilled for this new one. Watching it on a 75inch tv. Bro Wolfpack you got amazing eyesight. I was on twitch when you did the live stream..love this channel
I thought the battleship would be in the port. I thought the game wouldn't be leading me by the nose to the location of the boat, instead leading me to the bay or whatever. Four tries later, I found out there IS no port. Four tries of different levels of sneakiness; depth control; speed control; crew management, and frustration.
Then I find your video.
You stroll in without submerging, not giving a shit, happily accidentally spot your mission target, shoot it, and leave.
After taking a page from your book, I also went in on the surface. I also spotted the battleship easily. Then the fog came, making my AI lose the target and the TDC settings I'd input every time I locked the target. Then I found out the hard way that the torpedoes have a max range of 5km, wasting 4, while at the same time the stern torpedo decided it also wanted a go despite me never actually flooding tube 5. This left me with 4 more bow torpedoes and 1 stern. Firing off the 4 bow torpedoes, 2 decided to run off in a random 45 degree angle while 1 was a dud and the other actually did quite well. Not enough to sink the ship, though! But GODDAMN, this was 4 hours of my life!
Time to go make dinner, I think.
Funniest thing is how you have to go deal with crew morale while trying to escape after a port raid.
Nice vid mate!
Thanks!
@@Wolfpack345 no thanks needed for saying the obvious mate
An amazing addition to my Friday evening, o7 Wolfpack
Have a great weekend!
More of this! Watched your whole series of this, quality content.
Wow. I did this mission multiple times. Nelson wasn't there, it was further out near the OG mission pip or farther West. I had to try to sneak past 10-15 destroyers. I didn't even fire. They heard my electric motors on ahead slow at 20m depth from over 1km away and blew the crap out of me. All four tries. Even after scouting it with the headquarters mission I STILL got blown to bits almost instantly while dodging the sub nets and mines. I don't understand how that black swan didn't see or hear you at 2.5Km and immediately drag you with depth charges. The one time I fired at anything I ended up with 8 destroyers on me with in 2 minutes.
That wasn't just any warship, it was actually THE Royal Oak. Well done Wolf. Just alive and well, two years after she was sunk by U-47... So, alternate history in game.
I did it on Oct 14 js like real life
0:34 after the sinking of the royal oak? Did i miss an episode or something? I don't get it
It's something that happened in real life. A u boot snuck into Scapa Flow and sunk an r-class battleship called The Royal Oak.
@@EneTheGene oh okay. Nice to know
@@brianriphagen9074 Happy to be of help :)
Excellent thanks for showing off the new patch
Royal navy: We'll salvage the Nelson and bring her back into servive soon enough.
Wolfpack: So you still haven't learned your lesson yet?
This is a new campaign not the old one so Nelson is still around
Wolfpack - I'll include the mods in the description below
Me - Where mods?
All he used was the TDC mod, realistic torpedoes, hard scope, and freshly painted. He said the mods in his stream
Mod list is in description now.
That 5th Torpedo was a beautiful shot but with the list I imagine that with it running shallow you likely struck the deck armor. Granted I'm pretty sure 5 torpedo hits with that sort of flooding spread is going to be fatal for a crew that is sitting in harbor not expecting to need damage control.
i'm mesmerized by your uboat videos :D
By 1944 "Happy Time" was over, ASDIC put the living fear of Neptune into all Unterseewaffen crew and for good reason...it sniffed them out.
22:52 Oh gee, your scare scared me!
Thanks again for a interesting and action pack video. Good luck and happy holidays 😊, Mike USA 🇺🇸
Haha loved it and when I did this mission I just shot full speed right through and launched as many torps as I could cause they spotted me before I could get sights on the battleship
The probl with youtube is that use a VP9 codec and a reduced numbers off level. so the 0 to 255 levels in RBG become 16 to 236 in youtube codec.
There is a color space setting in every all good photo/ video éditor to fix that or you ca do it manually with "light/contrast"...
man i miss Friday Silent Hunter uploads
I feel like the eastern approach should have several scuttled ships and be a lot narrower and shallower if memory serves. Silent hunter 3 modelled that quite nicely ( may of been the GWX mod though, can’t remember for sure) I remember having to be very careful fitting between the scuttled corpses and feeling very vulnerable
They have sub nets across the whole eastern approach. You have to approach on the surface or you will get caught in them.
I binge watched the entire playlist and now I have some bigger fish to fry
Quality content, as always! Thanks.
By the way, I recommend the Sinking Physics overhaul mod. It eliminates such absurdities when you have to launch countless torpedoes at the target in order to sink it, remember there such actions when I hit a destroyer with a torpedo and he had "life" that the green bar was barely visible and only one shot was enough after surfacing. 8,8 guns to sink it. in practice it looked funny because the ship was 80% underwater, only the bow was sticking out. Thanks to this mod, such situations do not happen anymore
I have the mod and tankers will stay half under the water after 2 torpedo hits to the side... and keep steaming on like a sub.
Love the Wolfpack videos
Thank you!
Love these videos, I am still hoping that you'll do a il2 German career (start with he51 and end in the 262)😁
Greetings bibia
How the destroyers can't hear you when you are sailing at normal speed, I was doing a similar mission and after I put the "throttle" on, I immediately sounded the alarm and all the ships started looking for me, I immediately say that I had the cranoscope pump and other noisy things turned off before approaching the port
This update is amazing.
It is pretty good. Lots good additions
Wolf, it’s 2:20am I’m trying to go to sleep!
I heard “Milch Cows” though, and my ears pricked up XD
I'll have to try them out soon!
@@Wolfpack345 it looks like the small islands and block ships (original plus ones added after Prien’s raid) are not modelled in the East passage which is a bit of a bummer :/
@@jamesgriffiths7588 also I think there were several permanent causeways built that blocked off all shipping lanes with the exception of the three main entrances. I think the route Prien used was blocked off shortly thereafter by one of the causeways.
@@codydavenport8429 yeah that’s what I was getting at with my original comment but didn’t want to be too blunt. Realistically after 1939 the East Passage was a passage in name only and was fully blocked. Off the top of my head there were two or three block ships originally, and after Prien’s little escapade two or more additional ones were put in.
@@jamesgriffiths7588 the game is definitely looking better with this most recent update, but I find it weird the developers didn't pay a little more attention to detail on such a major base of Allied shipping.
good to see you back in the water or under :) i do miss flying circus i really enjoy you vids thanks man :)
Thanks for watching! Flying circus will make a comeback. I just need to find the time.
I had so much anticipation for this episode
26:29 One of your crewmates vented
Gonna have to jump back on after hearing about the updates. Love that bulkhead button being added!
I'm glad to hear it's less "micro-mangey" because it was not a U Boot game it was a crew babysitting game
You are playing the excellent Il-2 1914-18 campaigns and I very much hope there will be a similar First World War UBOAT mod for us to enjoy the birth of underwater warfare
Nets, not sure if the are torpedo nets, are in game. If you came in through the eastern side as suggested by game submerged, you would have met the net from one shore to other. I tried to do this mission in preview 4, but they noticed me (not detected though) and in 5 seconds I had maybe 20 ships circling above me. This is crazy.
I wonder if the High Seas Fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow is modeled in the game
That would be amazing but at the same time they could and should add more details to the subs surface ships ECT IMO and also not doing the scuttled fleet would also help with the running of the game cause too many details and you need a 7k PC lol just my insight is all
Or maybe be able to turn on and off some of the details such as that? Might be cool
hard to imagine that no destroyer or other guard was patroling out of the approach channels, only inside Scapa flow... so this was a little bit too easy...
just like pearl harbor
I'm starting to think it might be time to buy this game, looking good!
It is getting better for sure.
I should have guessed that I'm not the only one waiting for a convincing enough Wolfpack video to buy it :)
Great brief and introducing the game. Good job...
U-Boot crews hated destroyers with a passion. when they found one stationary near the coast and no other high threat around, they got torpedoed. High command might be angry you "wasted" 2 torpedoes on a destroyer, but any other u-boot crew will praise your crew for it. and sinking any ship on a run is better than searching for big fish and returning to the harbour with torpedoes left on your u-boot. In fact, early in the war, some K'Leut's rather "wasted" torpedoes in the books and firering them into the ocean than returning home with them.
I enjoy these, thank you for the effort you put in and sharing it.
I hope the developers correct the peculiarly slow movement of the rocker arm & pushrod assembly, take a look at the several examples of u-boot diesels of the period or any period, even at tick-over, but especially at full-chat, they have a purposeful rhythm and the absence of that in this game is jarring.
Here is a fine example, check at the time stamp provided: ruclips.net/video/zLfa43_1WH8/видео.html
What a perfect way to end my Friday
Great video I love your uboat series
Just got a new gaming pc, can’t wait to get this game
The 2 groups of warships North of Scapa Flow just have that scent of staging operation for Illustrious Class CV and King George V BBs.
I would imagine tube #5 hit the main belt, which was 14 inches/ ~350mm thick. Might need a little more oomph to break through that chunk.
Serious question about that torpedo mod you mention around the 11:00 mark. Is the action of "pre-heating" a torpedo historically accurate? Or just a feature of this game?
Electric torpedoes would be warmed up once a day.
I also did this mission but submerged and in broad daylight so that went as well as you would think.
Would love to see more UBOAT. I know it's less realistic that the SH series, but the side-on cutaway or top-down views make it beautiful, easier to follow, and unique.
Correct me if I am wrong, but if the target speed is 0, the angle on bow doesnt matter at all.
I love this series
Happy to hear it.
You got the date right Wolfpack..10/14/39 was the date the Royal Oak met it's end.
31:03 - I'm surprised at the lack of dudes.
Gato class: we heard you wanted to borrow some Mk-14s?…
Babe wake up, b129 came out
Glad to see Nelson eat it.
I knew you would be.
Finally! So excited for this!
Those rocker arms are rockin.
18:57 no sub nets he says?.... as im literally caught in a sub net while playing right now trynna sneak in the east side of scapa. (it was daytime and i couldnt fully fast forward to night so i cant float over it yet haha dont judge me im sorry)
I wish they'd do a US campaign. Sailing and fighting a Gato Class would make me a very happy man!
Yo, I've never encountered the Nelson... after 350 hours of play
I haven't either after 200 hours. But I've encountered the Illustrious like five times...
@@Vlaew illustrious, yes. But the HMS Nelson itself.
I think I found the British aircraft carrier group about 5 times, but not the Nelson! 🤣
0:33
For a Second I thought you would say HMS hood
It's way more fun escaping through the South though since you have to deal with naval mines XD
My boat got caught in an antisub-net a few months ago.