German sonar: “Destroyer close!” Skipper: “nonsense, I see the merchant right there” Sonar: “sir……he’s……….narrating his log and asked us to make sure to like the video?” Skipper: “Mother of…….DIVE DIVE DIVE”
Between your and Tonci87’s Silent Hunter 3 career play-throughs, your Cold Waters Seawolf campaign, the great previews and now campaign for Destroyer U-boat Hunter, we’ve just been absolutely spoiled for choice of great content in the subsim/naval sim niche recently!
Baker was cracked open like a beer can, but Able & Charlie were harder to track. Mountie was slow to respond, but respond she did. Love to see more DD on SS action.
How is this become super intense on just 2nd episode? it's like watching Greyhound all over again for the first time, I'm inching closer on the edge of my chair my fist clenched and noticeably sweating.
before you drop your depth charges always wait 2 or 3 seconds, because you are losing contact at the front of the ship but dropping depth charges at the back so always wait a few seconds for you to cover the distance of your ship
Such a huge difference from this end of things. Bolting around, hectic manuevering, bouncing back and forth between stations. Much different from the careful stalking in SH. Though it can get pretty hectic there too when you've got eggs dropping all around you from half a fleet's worth of ships, lol...
I like intro music from old Destroyer Command,this game can connect to game Silent Hunter 2. One player in sub,other in DD. I have nice memories on multiplayer games over LAN with my friends 😊😊
Definitely like this game this one is keeping you on the edge of your toes and the viewers on the edge of their seat anticipating if you're going to be successful in your hunt
Hopefully this game will be a big success for Iron Wolf Studio and they can use it as a stepping stone to create a larger Pacific set sequel expanded to include anti-air & anti ship ops etc
At 22:00 when you were wondering: you put in 0.56 instead 0.76 at plotting, that's what caused the mistake. And if I may say so: Sun Tzu says: "if you defend everything - you don't defend nothing". That would make your decision to go after C instead finishing A wrong, but it's understandable, it was very hectic and A did go deep. Great videos, thanks.
I managed to destroy few uboats using main gun while surfacing, what i did just slow down to 1/3 or full stop and make sure all gun aiming at uboat. The distance must be under 1600-1500 yd. You'll see the huge explosion.
That would be cool to see damage to the U-boat by having the destroyer running through it, just like it really happened. Kind of a shame it wasn't modeled.
Another very well done video, Wolf!! While it's sad you lost a convoy (no wonder Mountie was pursuing that other U-Boat with such obsessive focus; the sunken ship probably had their buds on it), but it's still about 90% intact. Interesting question would be if the AI only gets a fixed number of UBoats, so as you manage to sink them, attacks become less frequent.
Excellent handling of your boat and squadron mate. It certainly captures the tension of a Destroyer captain although the ASDIC seems a little too good this early on in acquiring and reacquiring u-boats so quickly.. Still feel the U-boat AI is playing a little dumb although better than the tutorial. Coming to the surface that many times and not firing torpedoes makes me wonder about the AI's competence. And why not fire at your escorts? A Fletcher class Destroyer had 28 depth charges. Prety certain you drop near if not over 28 depth charges here. I know dedicated Escort Destroyers had up to 300 depth charges in stock but this is early 1942. Your destroyer would only have the regular complement. As for the Flower it had a max of 40 depth charges and no room for extras. How are you resupplying between encounters or is it an infinite supply? Given in the submarine simulations you have between 16 and 24 torps and then you have to go home it seems rather poor that the Destroyer simulator doesn't put that same pressure on you regarding being careful of when and how many depth charges to use.
With Depth charges, yes. They weren't particularly good weapons for sub hunting when compared to their successor, the hedgehog. They were what they had, so they made do of course. Hedgehogs in particular let the attacking ships retain contact with targets and when they went boom, it was because you had a hit. Since it was basically mortar firing a bunch of torpedo warheads with WORKING magnetic fuses on top of the suspected destroyer, as opposed to depth charges, which were ruddy great barrels of explosives with a timed fuse
@@Veloxyll The very first depth charges were repurposed, 5k lb anti-battleship sea mines with pressure fuses lol. Just rolled them off the ass of the ship and gunned the engines while hoping you wouldn't get split in half by your own explosives.
I have actually hit a sub with the guns and cracked it. first and last time (so far) that that has happened. Thanks for the video , really enjoying this series.
lol, pretty certain even one 5 inch shell hit to ANY submarine’s hull would be enough to breach its pressure hull, thereby obliterating her neutral buoyancy
A type IX U boat apparently has a 18mm thick pressure hull. Because the boat sits pretty low in the water I guess you would be hitting the top of it where it slopes inwards, so the effective thickness would be somewhat greater. I suspect this would be enough to resist hits from light weapons (small arms, 20mm AA guns etc) and shell splinters, but 5" armour piercing would punch through it like it wasn't even there. Might actually be more effective than HE, as shots that fall slightly short have a chance of continuing through the water and hitting the sub below the waterline.
In my career save, I completed my first crossing/mission with 4 losses and 3 kill. Not too bad I suppose, most of the convoy got there. 2 of the 3 kills were Mountie, and the last one was me. Funnily enough, it was a guns kill as well as a sub ran on the surface to catch up to the convoy (after having been depth charged for thirty to forty minutes I think). At least we managed to get most of the convoy through with no escort losses I suppose, though we had to leave the crews of 2 ships behind and only had time to rescue 2 crews. I think there's some variation baked into the campaign. My first mission did not have BlackCat and my missions were all in the day for that first crossing. Rough though, the third battle I had that first crossing. so many subs, so few escorts.
Fantastic episode! Really enjoyed it. I’d like to offer one suggestion: instead of telling us the text messages, allow the reports to be spoken by your crew which will improve the continuity and maintain the narration. When you read the text it’s like a game and less an exciting movie. ❤🇦🇺
Hopefully your campaign won't have what happened to me which is that it stopped saving. I've wasted about 3 hours even trying to see if I complete it all at once if it will save at the end of one mission or the start of another but it won't anymore. One thing to note though is you can have Mountie go and rescue merchant crews via the tactical screen which can be handy. Starts to get to be a lot of micromanagement trying to do the DRT yourself once you also have to keep ordering escorts back and forth between multiple boats and also trying to line up your own attacks.
How do you calculate when to fire charges for medium and deep patters to account for the time to sink to depth? Of course, closure rate times time to sink gives you the required standoff distance, but how do you get the closure rate from the DRT? Other than guessing, of course, and for a shallow pattern you can pretty much just send it. 😅
The TRR you set the depth on and use the tracks to determine the closure rate so that when it intersects the dashed black line you drop. That's the ideal anyway but you still have some guess work based on how you're intercepting their path and how they're turning or changing speed. I can't recall if I've ever killed one when it's deep but it's also not attacking at that point and is moving slower than the convoy so it does give a little bit of breathing room. The AI unfortunately does like to come to the surface to try catching back up instead of just giving up the immediate attack. I've shelled far more to the bottom than would be reasonable since there's no reason an actual crew would surface within a few kilometers of a destroyer unless they were flooding.
Dropped way too early on Contact Charlie, I wouldve waited till my bow essentially touched the U-Boat Also btw you panicked big time, was funny to watch
0:38 Do you actually do all the steaming like in SH3? Manage fuel, experience the weather etc or does it jump/load to each engagement with the ‘general quarters’ cutscene each time?
It's cutscene loads each time. The game is still fairly WIP and is more about 'kill the u-boat!' rather than spending weeks staring at a map while waiting for something to go wrong.
@@2xKTfc You forgot sleet. If you're going to leave such a stupid comment at least get it right. It's besides the obvious point I was making, anyway. All rain is precipitation, his statement is redundant. Even if there were snow/sleet/hail in addition to rain "precipitation" alone would have covered it.
So does the convoy become smaller on each successive engagement as they take losses or is it you start out with 16 lose 2 and the next one it's back to 16 again?
