War on the Sea || Defense of the East || Ep.2 -Defending Ceylon

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In the months following Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted operations at sea, threatening British Royal Navy dominance in the area.
The most dangerous moment of the war, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black.
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill, April 1942
March 31, 1942, Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, her forces had overrun Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, and Burma. Now the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army were heating up for an assault on India, the jewel in the British imperial crown.

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@SatNavDan Месяц назад

Japanese Command in disbelief at losing a Carrier, a Sub, two Light Cruisers, a Heavy Cruiser, two Torpedo Boats and four Freighters whereas the RN have only lost a single Destroyer.

@burnzy2639 Месяц назад

Hey they also shot down like, 25 obsolete bi planes and a single scout...

@user-xe9sg1wg7t Месяц назад

This far from their home waters, the blessings of Hachiman grow weaker, and Teitoku forgot to praise Ganesha before sailing off his shores.

@scottc287 Месяц назад

@@burnzy2639 Shokaku might disagree with your "obsolete" assessment! 🤣

@richardharris9871 Месяц назад

Yeah, a bit of a difference

@ericstearns170 Месяц назад

Yep, even a sharp stick hurts when poked into an eye. @@scottc287

@DanielHammersley Месяц назад

"HMS Scout, who scored first blood, settled low, but upright to the end and the eternal patrol of Neptune's realm."--RN dispatch to London, via Bombay

@Rainwarlord Месяц назад

Honestly my favorite content from Wolfpack. Such a unique and fun game

@Wolfpack345 Месяц назад

Thanks!

@zoltantapai3716 Месяц назад

Agreed! Reminds me of those WW2 documentaries I used to watch as a kid on National Geographic and the Discovery channel. Really good balance of strategy and action too.

@Floris_VI Месяц назад

totally agree with you!

@rickendfed7472 Месяц назад

Wolfpack is on Target 🎯 with entertainment

@isaacmcmanus3666 Месяц назад

I especially love games played from the Royal Navy perspective. I just think they're so interesting!

@nekomakhea9440 Месяц назад

Wow, the armed merchant cruiser solo-carried the rest of that Japanese fleet

@Floris_VI Месяц назад

absolute chad merchant

@alexzenz760 Месяц назад

Kamtshatka reboot 👍🏻😉

@razorback20 Месяц назад

4:14 : "And that's going to speed up the sub's dive time for sure" 🤣 Epic.

@markthompson4885 Месяц назад

blub, blub blub. 🤣

@ijnfleetadmiral Месяц назад

1) A light cruiser and a heavy cruiser and you gripe about losing five planes? Dude, that's a fine tradeoff in my book! 2) The Aikoku Maru class was probably the largest of the IJN's merchant cruisers. They were originally passenger-cargo liners built for the Japan-South America run, and were large, beautifully-proportioned ships. Aikoku Maru and Hokoku Maru (sisters) were the terrors of the Indian Ocean during the long raiding cruise they conducted...until they encountered the Dutch tanker Ondina, which decided to fight back. As Hokoku Maru pressed the attack, Ondina scored a lucky hit on Hokoku Maru's torpedo mount in the stern, blowing the ship apart. Aikoku Maru fired a few shots in fury at the destruction of her younger sister, picked up Hokoku Maru's survivors, and then beat a retreat. She survived until February 1944, when a TBF Avenger put a 1,000-lb. bomb directly into her forward cargo hold during the raid on Truk. The forward cargo hold was filled with ammunition, and the entire forward half of the ship was literally vaporized. The last ship of the class, Gokoku Maru, never got to serve as a merchant cruiser, completed much later in the war. She was torpedoed and sunk while serving as a transport in late 1944.

@thisherehandleIdospout Месяц назад

Just FYI, Wolf: That sub that you 'assisted with accelerated diving maneuvers' was, apparently, primarily a minelaying sub - Not sure if that has any in-game repercussions, but if you end up inexplicably losing ships along the west coast of India outside of an engagement or something... I guess now you'll know why 💩🙃

@atack1212 Месяц назад

"Some secondary explosions" *shows explosion half the size of the torpedo boat* keep up the good work, I watch you just for the war on the sea content and would LOVE to see more

@UnderseaAlex Месяц назад

It is pretty frustrating when you give your ships a target and they ignore the order ater firing two salvos. Recommend disabling fire at will when you want your ships to attack a specific target. Just don't forget to give them a new target when they've sunk their previous one.

@sirboomsalot4902 Месяц назад

One thing I noticed is that, if you tell a ship to fire at a specific target but don’t turn off “fire at will”, they will just go back to their original target the moment you aren’t looking. Thats why they kept engaging that freighter and not the Sendai.

@mediocrefunkybeat Месяц назад

Excuse me Rear Admiral. If you are roleplaying as the Royal Navy I humbly request that you spell the word 'defense' with a 'c', i.e. 'defence' in the genuine British fashion. This is a brilliant series so far, thank you!

@jonathanmormerod Месяц назад

Whilst he's at it, could he please pronounce Ceylon "Sillon" not "Saylon".

@eduardoanzolch6078 Месяц назад

"Let's Respectfully Say That, HMS Scout Decided to Paths Seldom Trod..."

@willpelkey1510 Месяц назад

🫡

@Pagan20-08 Месяц назад

2nd episode in and we've already got our first Allied casualty, at least HMS scout gave the Japanese hell before going down. Gotta give props to the captain of that Armed Merchant Cruiser, she certainly put up a hell of a fight. All in all, a good engagement, a formation with that many large merchant vessels would have almost certainly been an invasion force destined for Ceylon

@hmmjedi Месяц назад

The Fulmar was basically an enlarged Hurricane... and the Navigators in the Med used to go up with Thompson submachine guns in an attempt at boosting morale... but it does have 8 Brownings on the pointy end... for what the RN needed it was a little on the outdated side as the RN high command thought that navigating and flying the aircraft was too much for one man...

@nerd1000ify Месяц назад

Fulmar was never really meant to be competitive with land based fighters, when they were designing it the assumption was that enemy fighters wouldn't have the range to reach the carrier so the Fulmars would only have to deal with bombers. That assumption might even have been true in the Atlantic, but in the Med distances were much shorter and in the Pacific the Zero's outrageously long range ruined that plan. To their credit, the fleet air arm did recognise the fulmar's inadequacies and did their best to acquire better fighters. Unfortunately the best they could do domestically was navalise the Spitfire, and it's hard to imagine a worse design for operating from a carrier deck... The US-sourced Wildcat, Hellcat and Corsair were what really fulfilled their needs, once they got them.

@hmmjedi Месяц назад

@@nerd1000ify True it was more designed to take out recon aircraft and break up bomber formations... than take on fighters...

@joaogomes9405 Месяц назад

It wasn't an enlarged hurricane, it was an upgunned Battle. As in, a flying bathtub of a light bomber with extra machineguns desperately pretending to be a fighter

@roebuck554 Месяц назад

Hi Wolfpack, love the War on the Sea videos! Just a heads up, in my experience ships will just ignore your attack orders a few seconds later if they have fire at will turned on. You can see this pretty clearly during the 24:46 engagement where everyone starts shooting the nearest merchant ship for no reason. Messes up solutions and is very annoying to keep track of during a long battle :)

@UniqueUserTG Месяц назад

Merchant cruiser Yamato was not taking shit from anyone

@kyle.1442 Месяц назад

There’s overkill, then there’s sinking the Toni.

@thisherehandleIdospout Месяц назад

'And YOU get a torpedo, and YOU get a torpedo - EVERY BULKHEAD GETS A TORPEDO' 😆🫠

@jeffreyestahl Месяц назад

Typically, when a friendly air group is intercepted by fighters, the AI CV group is within 25nm of the intercept. The only time it's farther out is if you're intercepted multiple times and escape and end up being chased. Also, the presence of that Jake means a Myoko, Takao, Mogami, or Tone class somewhere. (EDIT: on 2nd thought, the Jake may have come from the Sendai)

@onkelknacker9287 Месяц назад

This promises to be another very interesting campaign of War on the Sea

@monkey0427 Месяц назад

I feel like the AA guns need to be buffed on both sides. Kind of crazy how a single, slow, low flying seaplane can get through an entire task force of AA guns firing solely at it. I think it also just plays into the “meta” of using aircraft to sink entire task forces.

@kandahar_syndrome Месяц назад

I agree, AA definitely needs to be buffed

@imakefoodhappen8190 Месяц назад

AA gun crews often struggled to hit the mark against the Swordfish because it was so slow. They would train to defend against something like an Avenger or Val and consequently would give too much lead out of habit. That's how the Swordfish managed to cripple the Italian fleet in port and critically damage KMS Bismarck with minimal losses. Also, the Swordfish was surprisingly durable, mostly because of the fact it was made mostly of canvas. Bullets and shells would mostly just pass clean through it without hitting anything important

@monkey0427 Месяц назад

@@imakefoodhappen8190 while that definitely is true, the AI in game struggles to hit pretty much every single target, and only actually kills in close range.

@bjorntrollgesicht1144 Месяц назад

Kido Butai? More like kiddo butt aiiii! Lady Luck is with you, that convoy was a nice treat!

@titan_o7 Месяц назад

I'm curious, are you a former Sailor by chance? I was watching your Cold Waters series and a lot of your lingo and terminology is spot on.

@jameswilson7599 Месяц назад

This campaign is already my favourite

@darriusdias Месяц назад

Really puts into perspective the desperate naval situation the Allies found themselves in!

@mato5758 Месяц назад

Good vid.. Some things that might be handy... Merchant ships - Know their capacity. I start an experimental campaign, and buy 1 of each merchant/oiler, and write on a notepad how many of that type of ship, their speed, their guns (NOT machine guns). capacity of troops, cargo, engineers, fuel. Then I restart the actual campaign. That way you can put together a better matched convoy...as you found out when you bought those 2 ships and they weren`t what you thought. Remember also a convoy will only travel at speed of slowest ship. No use buying 16 knot ships and one 10 knot ship. When engaging that Sendai, you should have turned your 2x 2 warships south, and crossed the Sendai `T` and fired broadsides. Another handy hint....I`ve found when my ships are firing, most of their shells fall short of target. So if there is a 2nd enemy ship on other side of my intended target, I fire at the far target and usually end up hitting both. I`ve noticed other comments about your ships not firing at your intended target...before I hit start, I select all ships and turn on radar or sonar, set speed etc and also I turn off `fire at will` then I start the engagement. Same also if you are trying to engage ships and there are enemy planes buzzing around that are no real threat to you, turn off `auto fire flak`.

@antonyhakase6628 Месяц назад

11:52 damn they actually make some sound effects there, like a distress signal. Nice little detail, very interesting

@tedgross4280 Месяц назад

The Fulmar was a two seater thanks to the Admiralty's insistence at the time it was designed that every naval aircraft have a navigator to keep the pilot from getting lost. Aircrews voiced a desire for a rear gun of some sort but these requests were ignored. So they made do with Thompson SMGs, handguns, and flare pistols, with some going as far as throwing bundles of toilet paper into the slipstream in an effort to confuse enemy pilots.

@Not_Noodl Месяц назад

lets go im here in the first minute. i get to enjoy this fire content early

@Wolfpack345 Месяц назад

Nice!!

@Trades46 26 дней назад

Trading 5 torpedo planes for a heavy cruiser & light cruiser is still a strategic victory no matter how you spell it. A shame for HMS Scout, but that Akikou Maru merchant really put up a fight against a superior foe. Nice work

@johnmaddox7432 Месяц назад

Seems like Dragon is pretty equivalent to the Kuma/Nagara class cruisers in fire power. Hard to believe any of the European navies were still deploying single gun turret ships at this late stage.

$@iffracem$

@iffracem Месяц назад

@15:32 "we are hitting the deck and racing away".... No Sir, in a Fairey Fulmar there is no "racing" to be had.

@davidkillin8466 Месяц назад

Love your content Wolfpack. As a naval warfare fan, your videos, with their fine editing and drama, have kept me rapt. Keep it up and all the best 👍🏻

@jgong1 День назад

IRL, if Hermes ever get caught by a Kongo Class Battleship, it is not getting away. That retreat button is a cheesy mechanic.

@pbt_7326 Месяц назад

Wolf made me realise how awesome these naval warfare games are.... really thankful for your content

@FenrirPonzi Месяц назад

oh damn how much i love every war on the sea series! and i also watched Wolfpacks last wots series in 2 days while playing war on the sea XD

@gn0me420 2 дня назад

the Tone got kissed by at least a dozen torpedoes, it'd be a surprise if that shit didn't go to the bottom 😂

@45CaliberCure Месяц назад

Awesome, as always! I've had my eye out for this one. 😜

@michelepetri8767 Месяц назад

We need 1h long episode of this. Love it

@markstott6689 Месяц назад

It was amusing that the Fairey Albacores survived better than the Swordfish. Whilst the Albacore entered service to replace the Swordfish, the Albacore was retired first. Those beautiful Stringbags were a special aircraft. 😊❤😊

@joshuadickinson4614 28 дней назад

The Albacore was retired because the Fairey factory switched to Barracuda production, while the swordfish was already being licence produced elswere and was considered "good enough" for ASW work. Pilots who flew both generally preferred the Albacore (mostly because it had a heating system and glazed canopy).

@DrFlump Месяц назад

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your work and your videos all the way from France! Please keep going!

@stingraygaming2460 Месяц назад

Love the war on the sea series’s. I would love to see a British submarine!

@Wolfpack345 Месяц назад

I will get one eventually!

@stingraygaming2460 Месяц назад

Nice!

@justapeasant8949 Месяц назад

@@Wolfpack345 I know you don't like to use them, but you're been overwhelmed here.

@der7tezwerg921 Месяц назад

I really love the War on the Sea content very much. It is actually my favourite series on your channel.

@vaudevillian7 Месяц назад

Loving this series!

@theflyingdutchie2585 Месяц назад

Just finished the first episode, great timing!

@arthurcrego8297 Месяц назад

Fantasticcal episode great editing and super exciting

@KevinShriner 12 дней назад

whew! 4:34 That has to be a kind of worst case fear scenario for a submariner, I wonder if shallow depth would actually be good luck for them. No chance for discovery or rescue I'd think. Makes me curious to Google whether they had any escape options then or even for todays subs.

@cdt996 Месяц назад

Always love watching your war on the sea series!

@TheHeavenlyGoddess Месяц назад

Finish my work set to see a new series by wolfpack best way to end a week of hell. Love your vids wolfpack. your series are always engaging and delightful!

@joaofelipe7852 Месяц назад

Keep it up man ! Love all of your content, Im glad RU-vid recommended your channel 😎😎😎😎😎😎

@Squirrelmugger Месяц назад

When you pivoted to look for torpedo launches from Sendai they were already in the water. The tubes were empty, almost didn't catch it.

@rons6167 Месяц назад

May I suggest a quick review of your ships at the end of the battle so we can see what shape they are in and/or at least a shot of the exit screen so we can see the battle summary. Entertaining video thanks

@Tuning3434 Месяц назад

Regarding your light cruisers in Force A and B, be careful because some of them are not really suited for surface engagements: HNLMS Jacob van Heemkerck was outfitted with a AA 4-inch battery only, when receiving British guns after evacuating the Netherlands, in contrast to her sister Tromp 150 mm battery. Also keep an eye out on those C-class RN cruisers. Many have been refitted to AA 4-inch cruisers in the '30s to support the lacking AA capabilities on the lighter RN cruisers and Tribal class destroyers. HMS Caledon should be fine, cause her 6 inchers weren't replaced till end of '42.

@RemusKingOfRome Месяц назад

Great video. Love seeing those weird n wacky aircraft in action.

@drexia8973 Месяц назад

Loving this, more please!

@andrewjohnson388 Месяц назад

Really enjoyed that .....great ...thanks ...Top Notch. UK

@joestiller4270 Месяц назад

Time to sit back and watch another W/P video and enjoy it.😊

@wastelander89 16 дней назад

I love your war on the sea videos

@joshuanuciola8070 23 дня назад

Imagine being the most advanced aircraft carrier at the time and you get taken out by a swordfish.

@greekbuddha2131 Месяц назад

Great vid

@tobiasengstrom8061 Месяц назад

Love these series, although I feel it's just too easy for a human player with all of these torpedo bombers. When you finally have big ships coming close to each other, and then have the whole enemy fleet being taken out by like 10 torpedo hits to each ship. Also a tight formation with AA should be hard to survive for these planes, and especially swordfish planes that are so slow and fragile. But apart from that, thanks for a very enjoyable series to watch :)

@vromansaltzman5276 Месяц назад

Another great episode.

@rickcoona 12 дней назад

A rather protracted battle but you prevailed in the end

@glenjones5416 Месяц назад

Wolfpack never fails!! TBS: try rockets on subs.

@Vtarngpb Месяц назад

We didn't get an AAR on that last battle!! 😭

@FullAutoBacon Месяц назад

These play throughs are great. I would like to see you play more aggressively on the surface. When you lose a ship it adds to the immersion and enjoyment.

@thisherehandleIdospout Месяц назад

17:13 OMG, what a... Wiley Pete. ... I'll see myself out...

@matikarz1844 Месяц назад

No matter what game is it about, I always watch your new video. And every time it makes me smile! :D Love your videos, Wolfpack!

@allangault9500 Месяц назад

Optimistic adjective hahahhaha had a good laugh with that.

@sovietonion3502 Месяц назад

I love this series.

@Constance_tinople Месяц назад

I have been trying to mod in the ships from currently the Dutch East Indies campaign into my TTE based game using weapon files and ammunition file mergers whilst manually adding the units to the unit list and campaign list options for fun and now the whole screen is white except for a few portions lol. This didn’t occur when I did the same thing with a different mod so I know this is just a me issue that I’ll have to sort out lol. Also I loved the video!! Your videos have inspired me to get into a lot of my favorite games and now I’m trying to edit them even more because of all the interesting ships/ newer models I see in your videos :).

@Plombo_5 Месяц назад

good stuff

@stephenfarthing3819 Месяц назад

I-400 class! And the RAF boys are on the ball.

@klauss.2696 Месяц назад

YAHOOOO

@MichalProzac Месяц назад

Best game to apply Sun Tzu teachings in practice. Attack thy enemy where thy enemy is weakest. Hit thy enemy logistics.

@gavinjenkins899 Месяц назад

way more dynamic and interesting than one uboat skulking around, great game

@pieater31415 Месяц назад

The music in this game is kickass.

@jollyjohnzz 11 дней назад

Thanks

@Wolfpack345 7 дней назад

Thank you!

@foreverpinkf.7603 Месяц назад

Wouldn't it be better to attack the ships from both sides simultaneously during torpedo attacks? All in all, a better result than in the first episode. Keep up the good work!

@rickendfed7472 Месяц назад

Another good adventure

@GeneralRommel12368 Месяц назад

The little albacore's that could

@winterbabydoo9752 Месяц назад

Love the ship details, models look great, can you build any USN ships out of curiosity?

@kermitthefrog1176 Месяц назад

Game has comedic timing fr. Second week of campaign. I picked a north cal just to see what it can do. First its a random Ise encounter. I was like okay they have bbs too. And like 3m after that battle ended it was a Yamato jumpscare. Imagine being sneaked upon at nighg by the largest battleship ever made.

@nicklindberg90 Месяц назад

0:34 swordfish pilots are here for a good time, not a long time

@script_crafter Месяц назад

Imagine being those merchant mariners within a fleet with a single light cruiser, and a handful of small torpedo boats and fighting so hard you *nearly sank a ship* Like, in reality those men would be deemed heros, a merchant ship strapped with (probably) obsolete guns in dual mountings, barely trained on them and sent into a battle where they did *much more damage than anyone had reasonable expected*

@BurkDregard Месяц назад

I demand the Royal Navy provide a BB or BC! The enemy cannot remain in the position where they posess the sole battleship in the theatre!

@thisherehandleIdospout Месяц назад

Yes, we must have REVENGE! HMS, that is 😉

@montarakid1943 Месяц назад

IIRC I have not seen (mostly) any torpedo hits at long range w/a 🤔3 degree spread.

@stephenfarthing3819 Месяц назад

Hmmm this is new! Interesting!

@timjerrom7173 Месяц назад

Bravo

@Boslandschap1 Месяц назад

Great fight

@Gnatz09 Месяц назад

i love this series. much fun to watch. i own this game, so the question: is it playable, or should i have a masters degree in military strategy to have fun for myself? :D

@bigmac60 Месяц назад

No kill like overkill 👍

@ditzy_neko3362 Месяц назад

Hey, great video. Sorry about Scout but at least your min force is ok

@AHersheyHere Месяц назад

The little Kanal that could will replenish a whole air wing in the campaign.

@blacksabre5343 Месяц назад

Fulmar being chassed by Zeroes has Zero chance of survival... lol

@090giver090 Месяц назад

I wonder if it had more chances if it turned and fought? Historically Fulmars were able to bag some Zeroes during Indian ocean campaign (basically because a plywood and canvas plane with zero fuel tanks protection had poor odds aginst 8 Brownings if it get caught in crosshairs)

@wylandnares8642 Месяц назад

@@090giver090 Plywood and canvas, the zero was not, but I see your point. However, Even if they turned and fought, the Fulmar was essentially a lengthened hurricane, which was already faring badly vs Zeroes, and with that many of them, the death would have just been quicker.

@jay76ny Месяц назад

Given the damage your ships sustained, only losing one is pretty good.

@vielplaysdagames2298 Месяц назад

rip to all the sub crews lost in this war on the eternal patrol

@Bauhotte Месяц назад

Hopefully the secound Japanese carrier won‘t make a move on Ceylon, while this task force is in port due to maintenance..

@scavoukian Месяц назад

Hey Wolfpack, would it make sense to have all the slow swordfish and Albacores fly at full speed for the entire torpedo run? Might save a few more from the inevitable IJN guns?

@davidspencer8373 Месяц назад

Like video

@billiebee5327 Месяц назад

Another WOTS turkey shoot. Vals ignore a carrier to attack destroyers? Swordfish cut through zeros and AA like a hot knofe through butter? Oh geeze...