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.
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
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. :)
@@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!
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
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.
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.
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
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 🐺 👍
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.
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 :)
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
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.
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).
@@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.
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.
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...
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.
Haven had any problems with any of the mods I ran on B128 with B129 - though I'd wait a bit for them to fix the bugs with B129 before diving fully into it (pun intended)
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.
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.
can you pls learn to put your playlist in the right order? i dont want to watch a playlist from the newest video to the oldest i want to start with the first one. i dont want to watch gameplay beginning with ep. 100 and going down to 1 i want to see how it started first and then see how it is now
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
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
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.
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 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
Damn you made it look easy, couldnt complete this mission for 3 hours, for me the warship was standing right in the middle of the bay surrounded by 10 or more smaller ships, it was impossible to get close to it undetected
WolfPack345: Hey look its HMS nelson! RU-vid: How about nothing. P.S. i was watching on 1440p still cant see the stuff. P.P.S. i hate youtube compression
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
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?
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 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.
I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have said 'the coast of the United Kingdom' as we are talking geography and not politics. Geographically you are going up the eastern side of Britain or the British Isles. I don't think United Kingdom came into popular parlance until perhaps the 1980s.
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
Just T5-ing all the Corvettes if nothing else is to do. I was as U 606 patrolling and had 8 Days straight no Sight, or Hydrophone contacts. Not even Aircrafts.
I started a new campaign but how can I do like the old missions like just driving around in a green aquare and kill ships or isn’t that Anny more???? the first mission I tried was recover a submarine but I couldn’t dive to the submarine……
I’ve been working on this mission for 4 hours I can’t sink it and get away. The only way I don’t hit a mine is if I escape to the East, I either stay close enough to get 4 good hits and sink it but die to the destroyers or I’m far away enough to escape the destroyers but don’t sink it.
I'm not sure if its me but I bought this game because of these series. But when I play, the only ships I find are fucking other uboats. When I do find convoys, they usually fuck off well before I can set up an attack.
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)
@@Wolfpack345 ok when I play it missions and especially the interactibles somehow get stuck also my skipper keeps cloning and I end up with two on board
In the first attack you have miss the message from the nelson and the second attack you alos miss the message i not ask you to chek the massage ever time because you are on the attack run and you dont have cange to make the misstate so if cant do it is ok fro me because i just a man paly more attention to story and i love the way you give us the video and i love to see more. If my ruquest will cange you to pefrorm the video than don't cange it. This massage is write down dy a man jus watch video.
