Imagine being on the Japanese oil tanker Tonan Maru which takes 11 dud torpedoes from an American sub after taking 1 torp that exploded but still managing to escape.
The interaction with ship survivor is quite funny actually, I could imagine the confusion amongst them when they take their officers as prisoner in exchange for ten loafs of bread, "yeah, we'll take your captain as POW, and for them, here some Stollen, Baumkuchen, and Pretzels"
So, funny thing about Q-ships: They got the US into WW1. The rules of war at the time demanded that in order to attack a civilian ship, even one sailing under an enemy's flag, you first had to identify yourself to them and demand their surrender. Anything else was a war crime. This worked fine for german U-boats in the early days of the war. They'd surface next to a target, tell the crew to hop into their lifeboats and scuttle the ship with minimal fuss. But then Q-ships entered the scene. Suddenly U-boat commanders were in a bit of a bind. If they tried following the rules and their target turned out to be a Q-ship, they were dead. If they used their stand-off weapons (torpedoes), they were committing a war crime. The british and french were pretty sure they had Germany in a perfect trap and their cargo vessels would be left alone now. Unsurprisingly, the germans went for the "torpedo it without warning" approach, arguing that by hiding armed ships among their cargo vessels the entente powers had effectively declared all cargo vessels under their flags combatants and therefore legitimate targets for surprise attacks. This eventually led to the sinking of a british-flagged ocean liner that took over a hundred US citizens down with it and caused public opinion in the US to turn fully against Germany.
Moral of the story is don't carry passangers on an auxilliary warship also carrying 4.2 million rifle cartridges, 50 tonnes of 3" shells and other war supplies.
@@Slahinki My point exactly don't cry foul when Germany sinks you, because you were the one that were being dishonorable and sneaky, under handed and using meat shields, then many years later, USA would do the same when bombing hospitals argueing the same point they used long ago.
This wasn't the only reason, the Black Tom explosion where a fire lead to a mass detonation of stockpiled munitions bound for British and French ports which were stored in vessels and warehouses on Black Tom, an area of reclaimed land in New York that was formerly a garbage island and developed into dockside warehouses, freight vessel berths and associated cargo handling areas. The blast demolished the island and threw debris both large and small great distances into surrounding built up areas, and peppered the statue of liberty with metallic shrapnel forcing it's closure for repairs. I'm not sure if they ever verified whether it was an act of state terrorism on the US' doorstep by German operatives as a lot of the evidence was destroyed in the blast, but it was interpreted as such.
I love your German U-Boat content. That game has come so far over the years. Your game play is like watching a tv show. I love it and I'm always looking forward to your next episode.
Wolfpack + submarines is something I'll always stop what I'm doing to watch. Love to see more Uboat stuff, dude! It's been a hot minute! Full campaign perhaps?
german torpedo duds were super common. It was estimated that something like 1/3rd of torpedo hits at the beginning of the war were duds. If those duds had not been duds, its very likely the british fleet would have been seriously depleted in the first 2 years of the war. I think doenitz said something to the affect 'in the history of warfare, no warring party has gone to war with such ineffective tools'
The US Navy's torpedoes were even worse. The Bureau of Ordinance refused to conduct peacetime testing of torpedo performance because "torpedoes are expensive". As such, only about one in three torpedoes would even propel themselves, and one in five had functional detonators.
Shooting 3 torps at a merchantman. Wolfpack, you know you are sailing a U-boat and not a US Gato right? Also someone needs to make a Submariner mod for U-boat. A U-boat crew would have found room to store canned meat and cheese.
U: Here, have some bread, hope it'll be ok under this heavy rain. Life Boat №2: How about those bremen sausiges? U: Nope. 5 seconds later... U: Ok, here is your bre... Wait a second! №2: May be some cheese then, please and thank you? U: No means no! 10 seconds later... U: So, here is your b... WHAT?! №2: We've heared you have some bananas as well... U: GEDAUDAHERE!!!!
I just watched the first vid of this new U-boat series. You had a lot more cinematic shots of the sub. I am curious of the change between this vid and the first 3 weeks ago. Would you be able to get a screen of under water shot of the torp before impact instead of the usual above water shot with the splash. Would like to see the underwater view of a ships hull as the torp comes in. Enjoying this so far looking forward to more!
I dont know if this works in this game. but in real life they aimed at the funnel to start bigg fires and stop the ship. The funnels had vital oil pipes and cooling coils in them. I just noticed you do not go after the funnels that much.
19:35 how do you get that screen(officers/devices/lightning etc)? is it a mod or just a keybind I missed? Also what's the version you're running and the list of mods enabled please? thanks!
hi wolfpack, I love your content, but I have a question, how did the subs deal with water entering the escape pipe for the diesel engines in weathers like this? when they were on the surface
@@IIXenon correct, and if the intake was cut off temporarily by the water it would be drawn in from the hull causing a not so fun experience for the crew. Or so I heard
@@IceBear702 yeah, I've heard about burst eardrums from the diesel intake lowering the air pressure rapidly or exhaust in the engineering compartments. Must have been a blast
The last attack was brutal Around 1 minute before the ship sunked, anyone who escaped from that ship was outside, anyone inside possibly didnt even had the chance to try to escape
for some reason my torpedos are bouncing off ships not duds just making the ships bounce off and start going in another direction, is there arming distance? cause its getting irritating any help would be very appreciated. i wanna play more but its getting very annoying
@@oll-turny-llo8200 The US 75mm HE round would penetrate about 50mm steel armor plate, nearly 2 inches. Liberty ship hulls were made of high carbon steel roughly half to three-quarters inch thick. A german 75 or 88 HE round would have no trouble penetrating this cheap steel.
He did say in the video that there was a mod that changed the ship "health" system to be based on physics and buoyancy, but the vanilla game I think just uses a "health" system, with flooding and fire doing damage over time it would seem.
@Christopher Huhmann Makes it sound like a jet engine and bleeds the battery dry pretty quickly though. Playing with a charger solves the latter issue at least.
Hey man I don’t know if you will see this but I need help deciding if I should get uboat or destroyer unpatriotic hunter. Any help would be appreciated
You should try sending your torps a little deeper. C3 has 7.3m draught. I'd probably set my torps to 6m. They tend to do a lot more damage if you get them closer to the keel
Hey i dont know if this would be time consuming for you and you might not want to do it but jut wanted to ask if you could show us how to mod our sh3 game as yours.
Man I love this game for being basically a blue-collar job murder simulator. So relaxing to watch my boat just sail around and sink ships with ease. until about 43 when it starts to get a bit more intensive if you want to see what you are shooting at with a periscope.
Could you imagine how terrifying it is to hear a dud hit the side of the ship
|*clonk!*
Only surpassed by a non-dud sound D:
I suppose the more terrifying thing isn't the sound of the dud, but the wait for the one that isn't a dud coming after that
Imagine being on the Japanese oil tanker Tonan Maru which takes 11 dud torpedoes from an American sub after taking 1 torp that exploded but still managing to escape.
@@jackychan9236 lol our torpedoes we're so bad during the war
The interaction with ship survivor is quite funny actually, I could imagine the confusion amongst them when they take their officers as prisoner in exchange for ten loafs of bread, "yeah, we'll take your captain as POW, and for them, here some Stollen, Baumkuchen, and Pretzels"
Lucky for them they're near Gibraltar, I'd hate to be stuck in a lifeboat in the middle of the Atlantic
It'll be nice when this comes out of early access, I'd love to see a full campaign!
A bear did cocaine🤣
I don't have high hopes for it... sub sims are such a niche genre, they have probably already reached 50% of their sales at best.
People are more interested in tide pod recipes 🎉
So, funny thing about Q-ships:
They got the US into WW1.
The rules of war at the time demanded that in order to attack a civilian ship, even one sailing under an enemy's flag, you first had to identify yourself to them and demand their surrender. Anything else was a war crime.
This worked fine for german U-boats in the early days of the war. They'd surface next to a target, tell the crew to hop into their lifeboats and scuttle the ship with minimal fuss.
But then Q-ships entered the scene. Suddenly U-boat commanders were in a bit of a bind. If they tried following the rules and their target turned out to be a Q-ship, they were dead. If they used their stand-off weapons (torpedoes), they were committing a war crime. The british and french were pretty sure they had Germany in a perfect trap and their cargo vessels would be left alone now.
Unsurprisingly, the germans went for the "torpedo it without warning" approach, arguing that by hiding armed ships among their cargo vessels the entente powers had effectively declared all cargo vessels under their flags combatants and therefore legitimate targets for surprise attacks.
This eventually led to the sinking of a british-flagged ocean liner that took over a hundred US citizens down with it and caused public opinion in the US to turn fully against Germany.
Moral of the story is don't carry passangers on an auxilliary warship also carrying 4.2 million rifle cartridges, 50 tonnes of 3" shells and other war supplies.
@@Slahinki My point exactly don't cry foul when Germany sinks you, because you were the one that were being dishonorable and sneaky, under handed and using meat shields, then many years later, USA would do the same when bombing hospitals argueing the same point they used long ago.
This wasn't the only reason, the Black Tom explosion where a fire lead to a mass detonation of stockpiled munitions bound for British and French ports which were stored in vessels and warehouses on Black Tom, an area of reclaimed land in New York that was formerly a garbage island and developed into dockside warehouses, freight vessel berths and associated cargo handling areas. The blast demolished the island and threw debris both large and small great distances into surrounding built up areas, and peppered the statue of liberty with metallic shrapnel forcing it's closure for repairs. I'm not sure if they ever verified whether it was an act of state terrorism on the US' doorstep by German operatives as a lot of the evidence was destroyed in the blast, but it was interpreted as such.
I ain’t reading allat
@@Slahinki Or do. If the passengers are nationals of the country you want help from.
Soggy bread from the rain would be great when you're surrounded by saltwater.
I love your German U-Boat content. That game has come so far over the years. Your game play is like watching a tv show. I love it and I'm always looking forward to your next episode.
Uboat was what I originally started watching this channel
Cold waters for me
Silent Hunter 3 für mich! 😁😁👍🏻
Love seeing you back playing this
Wolfpack + submarines is something I'll always stop what I'm doing to watch. Love to see more Uboat stuff, dude! It's been a hot minute!
Full campaign perhaps?
german torpedo duds were super common. It was estimated that something like 1/3rd of torpedo hits at the beginning of the war were duds. If those duds had not been duds, its very likely the british fleet would have been seriously depleted in the first 2 years of the war. I think doenitz said something to the affect 'in the history of warfare, no warring party has gone to war with such ineffective tools'
The US Navy's torpedoes were even worse. The Bureau of Ordinance refused to conduct peacetime testing of torpedo performance because "torpedoes are expensive". As such, only about one in three torpedoes would even propel themselves, and one in five had functional detonators.
Finally! It was about time for some periscope action!
Your excellent commentary allows me to "see" this game in my head, thank you.
Shooting 3 torps at a merchantman. Wolfpack, you know you are sailing a U-boat and not a US Gato right? Also someone needs to make a Submariner mod for U-boat. A U-boat crew would have found room to store canned meat and cheese.
Yeah that's definitely a shortcoming of a video game. Really the spot the bread was stored in would at least hold some of the salvage.
@@jackfredricks6223 Or stored it in the head.
Love when you play U boat. Hoping for more soon.
Learn something new with all your videos. Good job Wolfpack.
Good one today.
Excellent, just like a war film only crunchie!
At the moment you are the single youtuber who make a great story from a simple game, great job!
Check out Tonci87. He is doing a Type II campaign in Silent Hunter 3 with drama intros.
Always nice to see some good ol' u-boats
Love watching you play this game mate
I love watching u boat looking forward to seeing more of it keep up the hard work Wolfpack
Yey Uboat. I love these vids the most. :)
U: Here, have some bread, hope it'll be ok under this heavy rain.
Life Boat №2: How about those bremen sausiges?
U: Nope.
5 seconds later...
U: Ok, here is your bre... Wait a second!
№2: May be some cheese then, please and thank you?
U: No means no!
10 seconds later...
U: So, here is your b... WHAT?!
№2: We've heared you have some bananas as well...
U: GEDAUDAHERE!!!!
U boats, my favorite. Like little can-openers shearing the waves
Happy to see U-boat again! Would love to see more of these
this game is so beautiful
Not like you :)
@@jondon808 thanks
I just watched the first vid of this new U-boat series. You had a lot more cinematic shots of the sub. I am curious of the change between this vid and the first 3 weeks ago. Would you be able to get a screen of under water shot of the torp before impact instead of the usual above water shot with the splash. Would like to see the underwater view of a ships hull as the torp comes in. Enjoying this so far looking forward to more!
I dont know if this works in this game. but in real life they aimed at the funnel to start bigg fires and stop the ship.
The funnels had vital oil pipes and cooling coils in them.
I just noticed you do not go after the funnels that much.
The water looks so good when your in periscope view!
I love watching you stalk and destroy your opponents thank you
ahh nice, I#ve been waiting for this one for a while, love to see more u boat:)
yay! been waiting for u boat gameplay
Pumped for this! love the Silent Hunter music!
the memories....
Just picked this game back up after a year. I'm having trouble making an approach with out the destroyers seeing/hearing me
just use the hydrophone and wait to ambush the destroyer/convoy at periscope depth.
The Q boat were also called Raiders back then. They also took out other enemy merchants.
Ooooh, finally some u-boat content! What a nice birthday present :)
19:35 how do you get that screen(officers/devices/lightning etc)? is it a mod or just a keybind I missed?
Also what's the version you're running and the list of mods enabled please?
thanks!
LETS GO! WOLFPACK UPLOAD!!
I'd like to see more of these
I've said it several times already, but the SH3 soundtrack adds so much in a positive way :)
Yes!, new Uboat content!
21:17
Gericke. Gah-ree-ke. Probably not even close, but it's hard to explain, haha
Is there a reason you dont use the track function of the tdc anymore? (bugs, realism etc)
10:25 That's exactly why I prefer running T1s, much more reliable
Yep, and faster. I think they hit harder too.
U-boat Game play, yeah... that's the good stuff! Thx for the vid.
The intro always the same always good.
hi wolfpack, I love your content, but I have a question, how did the subs deal with water entering the escape pipe for the diesel engines in weathers like this? when they were on the surface
They had flaps that prevented any ingress into the exhaust or snorkel. A one way valve if you want to use that term
@@IIXenon correct, and if the intake was cut off temporarily by the water it would be drawn in from the hull causing a not so fun experience for the crew.
Or so I heard
@@IceBear702 yeah, I've heard about burst eardrums from the diesel intake lowering the air pressure rapidly or exhaust in the engineering compartments. Must have been a blast
The physics overhaul mod does indeed work with the new patch, I recommend installing it
Brilliant one.
Love this series. Well, love all your series lol. But this one is special for me.
The game is looking really good now !!! Thank you for the nice video ;-)
The last attack was brutal
Around 1 minute before the ship sunked, anyone who escaped from that ship was outside, anyone inside possibly didnt even had the chance to try to escape
Uboat is my favorite now
for some reason my torpedos are bouncing off ships not duds just making the ships bounce off and start going in another direction, is there arming distance? cause its getting irritating
any help would be very appreciated. i wanna play more but its getting very annoying
U boat stuff is the best!
Ahh, some more sub content thankyou sir. I'd like to see some more, but I'll take what I can get lol again thankyou.
Hmm, is this the ingame music - or have you added the SilentHunter3 Soundrack...?
I'm not sure if the game models it or not, but I'd think firing the deck gun at, or slightly below the waterline, would be more effective.
With armour piercing maybe. high explosive is designed to start fires on the deck and superstructure, not pierce the Hull at the waterline.
@@oll-turny-llo8200 The US 75mm HE round would penetrate about 50mm steel armor plate, nearly 2 inches. Liberty ship hulls were made of high carbon steel roughly half to three-quarters inch thick. A german 75 or 88 HE round would have no trouble penetrating this cheap steel.
@Jonathan Stone I'm sure you're right, but from my experience the game engine doesn't know this.
He did say in the video that there was a mod that changed the ship "health" system to be based on physics and buoyancy, but the vanilla game I think just uses a "health" system, with flooding and fire doing damage over time it would seem.
I wish they would make a console version of this, i really want this game. But cant afford a decent gaming PC to run it
@Christopher Huhmann Makes it sound like a jet engine and bleeds the battery dry pretty quickly though. Playing with a charger solves the latter issue at least.
When are you going to do another sh3 play through?
Yes finally!
How do you get that stopwatch?
Hey man I don’t know if you will see this but I need help deciding if I should get uboat or destroyer unpatriotic hunter. Any help would be appreciated
Solid!
Top KEK!
Peace be with you.
Wolfpack uploads a video
*Everyone liked that*
Any chance for another SH4 series?
Awesome videos 👌
Yes ! UBOAT video :)
You should try sending your torps a little deeper. C3 has 7.3m draught. I'd probably set my torps to 6m. They tend to do a lot more damage if you get them closer to the keel
Hey dude are you ok? In the past 2 weeks you've put out less videos than usual. I understand life happens I'm just trying to check on you bro
This game looks like so much fun , im afraid its really hard to learn thou, is there an tutorial within the game ?
Thanks for the video
Sorry what's the formula you use to determine speed?
Hey i dont know if this would be time consuming for you and you might not want to do it but jut wanted to ask if you could show us how to mod our sh3 game as yours.
great vid
Do you have a release date
Well that was a wild ride
What is reason for switching to red lighting ?
ER, ''PLEASE AND THANK YOU'' You sound like Mr Bean!
Would be funny/cool if target ship crew could hear dud torpedoes bounce off the hull and raise the alarm
When you have a dud, can you hear the THUNK in the hydrophone at all?
That was fun!
I wish they would add a mod where they have all types of subs in the game.
When it's war there's no such thing as over kill
Your awesome
Actually makes me seasick .
The ships sink a liiiiittle fast without the realistic physics mod lol
Is this on steam?
A sub game.. 😎
Nice.
Do you use mods? @wolfpack
There is no such a thing as overkill. You just used enough firepower to make sure that the objective will be comleted.
What game is this please?
"U-Boat"
Smoke on the Water.............
I do not ever see him using the map and measurements to determine AOB. How is he figuring it?
he is just looking through the periscope and estimating the angle
Eye balls
U-boat!! Woo Hoo!!
Man I love this game for being basically a blue-collar job murder simulator. So relaxing to watch my boat just sail around and sink ships with ease. until about 43 when it starts to get a bit more intensive if you want to see what you are shooting at with a periscope.
it's not murder, its war. A ship flagged for a warring nation is fair game, as it has been for thousands of years.
Awesome
Bring back the punching bag nelson and destroy again and again
Woohoo more u boat, this is za best