War on the Sea || Defense of the East || Ep.5 - Disaster
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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.
I feel like that lil fishing boat will grow up and take revenge for its fallen comrades
IJN: Who are you? Fishing boat: I am boatman
Another nice one
It's funny cuz they can actually reveal ur task forces position (Had way to many experience with them 💀)
Imagine it coming back in a task force with 2-3 battleships
@@SMarie-zk9oj I'm vengeance
Interesting detail, the troopship we see at 25:49 and which Wolfpack sinks at 31:58 is actually the one of a kind amphibious assault ship Shinshū Maru. One of the first large dedicated amphibious warfare ships in the world. It had a well deck to launch boats like the Daihatsu class landing craft we can see on her deck. Very nice to see it represented in the game!
I did not expect they have modeled the 大発動艇 (landing craft). Nice detail.
thank you for this knowledge
something about a little fishing boat in an invasion fleet is somewhat funny to me
Invasion command: What are you carrying for the invasion?
Fishing Boat: FISH
🐟🐠🐡
Invasive species.
Sushi-always fresh!
Someone's gotta feed the army! Fresh produce is better, anyways.
In a Japanese headquarters:"Don't worry about the US Navy, send all our carriers against Wolfpack!"
and the fishing boat, don’t forget about the best ship in the IJN
The AA is so frustratingly inconsistent in this game. Sometimes it rips to shreds any plane for miles around, and sometimes a full flight of planes can go passed a wall of AA without any harm.
it is realistic
thats how WW2 aa worked, you literally threw up as much bullets as possible and hoped you'd hit something
I’m sure staying in tight formation would help number of birds downed, don’t know if the number of swimming seamen will be helped though.
@@spiritdon2206 Japanese did, the US and British had a *somewhat* more sophisticated method of actually aiming at the targets instead of just volley firing into their general direction a la musket line.
But then again, this is 1942, and the US had just started to bolt on as many AA guns and AA directors as possible onto their ships, courtesy of one Admiral Willis "Ching" Lee, so the British and Japanese AA aren't too different. Some Japanese ships might still even have some 40mm Pom Poms on them!
@@spiritdon2206 At least until the VT fuse came in late in 1944.
That light cruiser at the end is the luckiest ship ever, eating 9 torpedos, 2 of which were duds, and then recovering afterwards.
Hey, it ain't lucky if it STILL goes down =p
I like how pretty much the second she ate that last fish, her crew was like 'Aaaand there's the straw - Abandon ship 🙃'
😂
My only real experience with dodging enemy air attacks comes from _Battlestations: Pacific_ (so maybe I'm not completely on point here) but your "zig zag" maneuver during the Val attack only made you more vulnerable. If you had continued the left turn, you would have started moving parallel and towards the diving bombers, giving them a much more difficult shot. Instead, you reversed the turn and presented your broadside.
Yeah, zig-zagging is something you do against subs, not aircraft.
13:10 I surprised that the developer of the mod actually added that detail!! That German Raider was flying a false flag, actually a very nice detail there
i love the anti air in this game. your whole fleet stuggles with the bettys and the vals meanwhile that one old samurai with his yumi bow snipes a hurricane out of the sky xD. gg wp
It’s weird how the 2 most proficient navies at night fighting during WW2, both of which launched successful naval aviation operations at night, are not allowed to operate aircraft at night
LOL. Can you imagine if the Swordfish heading for Taranto had to RTB when the sun went down or didn't take off at all. No Taranto and, if the IJN hadn't studied that attack, maybe no Pearl Harbour or a delayed Pearl Harbour and US entry into WWII.
Ironic
AFAIK the IJN couldn't operate carrier aircraft at night
only the RN and the USN nearing the late stages of the war could
Do not want to be zig-zagging a ship under aerial attack. Full speed, full turn of the wheel and go in a circle. If you zig zag against plane you're likely to end up presenting an easy target as you kill your momentum, speed and when you shift to the other side on the rudder you'll at some point in the turn, be pointing straight ahead for a while. Which is of course the most likely time a plane will come in on an attack run.
Royal Navy Carrier design came in clutch at the end, the armoured flight deck shrugged off most of the Val bombs and the enclosed hanger space should have helped with fighting the fires.
It’s the best looking model for an aircraft carrier in game at least it just looks so clean
The pronunciation of Trincomalee gets me every time.
It's Ceylon that gets me - SiLON, not SAYLON...
@@papasmurfette007 suh- laan
@@deadon4847 No...
@@papasmurfette007 not Keiloon? ^,^
@@diazinth Thracorzog! Thracorzog!
Han Solo:"I've got a bad feeling about this!"
My guy you need to use the aircraft waypoint system to set up proper search sectors around your fleet. You're fighting a much stronger enemy force and you're doomed if your carriers keep getting ambushed like this.
CAP is your first line of defence, not the last: vector them onto contacts as soon as they're detected and before they're directly overhead, for which you need a thorough search cordon.
The one down side of the British armoured carrier was smaller airgroups. That armour isn't free, HMS Indomitable carried about 50 aircraft and displaced almost as much as a Yorktown class, that could carry 90.
“Obviously we arent going to use a torpedo on this little fishing smack.”
Once, in my abdacom playthrough, i sent torpedo bombers after what i thought was an AMC. It was a fishing junk. I was like “welp, im already here…” and proceeded to ram 3 fish into it lol
Wolfpack, I think that the surface raider that you sunk was the one that sunk the HMAS Sydney IRL, so you just saved Australia's most popular ship from a terrible fate. Why do I think that was the surface raider? Because it was flying a a dutch flag which was the case with the surface raider that sunk the HMAS Sydney
This takes place after Sydney sunk
the surface raider that sunk the Sydney was the HK Kormoran the one wolfpack had sunk was the HK Komet
Kormoran would have been sunk by Sydney almost a year before this
@@sirboomsalot4902 is getting sunk the same as having to scuttle the ship after a won engagement?
@@roberturlaub8526 Yes.
I have a suggestion:
To fix the issue of Hermes and indomitable needing repairs and you have like 23 command points you could get an escort carrier to temporarily take indomitable place. Or a BB.
Yeah, one problem with that, Escort carriers were built to escort merchant convoys, using merchant hulls. Their top speed is under 20 knots. Attaching one to a cruiser squadron is going to leave it limping along at 16-18 knots at best, probably less as the carrier probably can't spend the entire voyage at its maximum speed.
25:00 “what a piece of junk!” -Luke Skywalker
Omg that’s a foreboding title!
Yea, I thought he lost the Enterprise or something!
The don't normally watch playthroughs but this series is just the best. It's better than a tv-show.
I must say, I'm not usually one to watch other people's playthrough of games but this series is fantastic!
Always looking forward to new episodes of the series
3 War on the sea videos in a week... you spoil us
Thank goodness indomitable lives up to her name. I think her fleet needs a lil reinforcing to increase the volume of AA fire, maybe another cruiser and destroyer would help at the very least. Ideally I’d add another carrier like indomitable to the force, but that’s prolly too much to afford right now as it is
Not sure if it would be available in this mod but the best light cruiser that the UK had in the Pacific was hms Belfast, a 12 gun cruiser (4x3 setup). Would be a good addition to one of the fleets if it is available.
HMS Belfast only went to the pacific in 1945. At the time this campaign is set she was laid up in Rosyth dockyard for major repairs after hitting a mine and breaking her keel.
Big fan of this series and all of the previous iterations. Narrations really make this great.
This is obviously your best series. A really good game, w/really good commendary is hard to beat!! Good job bro.
I was always fond the PBY in warthunder. such a fun little flying boat. surprisingly durable as well.
ngl I legit had a minor heart attack thinking that HMS Indomitable might go down
I'm glad the aerial combat is not the best in this game... The Betties were equipped with a 20mm autocannon in the tail turret. If it were the case in the game, poor hurricanes flying in a straight line would be cut to pieces before getting in effective range of their 7,7mm plinkers.
And those Hurricanes have not zeroed their guns, the tracers go all over the place Not a single stream converges with another. It even seems like some of the guns are pointing slightly up or down.
My headcanon states that these are all reject pilots who failed gunnery, so their mechanics give them maximum spread so they'll at least hit *something*.
For a stationary target and albacores, why not just aim the nose as the target, manual release and turn away much earlier than the auto attack feature? Keeps them out of guns range for longer, the torpedos have the legs...
~ 1:20, I believe there might be an audio editing error with the voice over cutting out?
Oh lord this is not gonna be good because of the thumbnail. 😭
Edit: Man this is unrealistic Japanese DCP is competent!!
Well, the title didn't make me optimistic either...
@@rlosable Yea after wacthing it seems like your avg WOTS counter attack.
To be fair, IRL, Japanese damage control apparently varied GREATLY from ship to ship, with some ships sinking after seemingly-minor damage, but conversely, some ships pulling off... well, what that light cruiser did for a while there 😕
I get the in-game reasoning, but I think it's kind of funny you'd set up an torpedo run on a ship and consider it hostile if it opens fire on you
It’s quite risky, but strafing runs will absolutely finish off a crippled merchant or destroyer if it just needs that little extra bit of persuasion. Also the slower your aircraft are moving, the more damage the strafing runs will do. I have actually sunk transports with nothing but strafing when I had 20 fighters that I didn’t care about getting shot down, hehe.
If only your ships were as resilient as that light cruiser lol.
I think you need to manage your damage control parties more. When the carrier was hit, you had two groups working on damage that had no fires and no flooding, while two fires were left unattended, one of them close to the hangar.
The non burning compartments will not take more damage the fire however will spread. You should have focused on firefighting first, and take care of the rest afterwards to minimize damage.
Also wait longer before leaving the engagement area, many of the ships sink on their own, but their damage is somewhat repaired after leaving, also their movement speed on the campaign map is not reduced by damage
Great series so far, Wolfpack.The Brits are holding on by their fingertips..
Im surprised the AI toughens up the enemy ships. According to Drachinafel, the Japanese navy wasn't well known for its prowess in damage control.
You should share this every day. Waiting is agonizing 😄
That fishing vessel will definitely not come back and bite you
Under an hour, I’ve been checking your channel multiple times for a few days, I absolutely love this series!
Also, the Fulmar is goddamn useless as a dogfighter, I use them purely for patrolling and dragging flak. Husband your Sea Hurricanes and save them for fleet defence, since fighters can be launched without incurring a cooldown, and scramble them all when an incoming strike is detected.
40 mins of Wolfpack?
Yuuurrrrrrrrrrrr
Thanks!
Thank goodness for the armoured flight deck on the carrier
32:40 remember folks, if you think it may be overkill, it never is. Make sure the receiver gets too much too handle.
Thanks for quality content.
Glad you enjoy it!
17:40 that was such a non-chalant reaction to losing a plain. "oh no we lost one" lmao
This guy some how makes this game look entertaining and engaging... which is an achievement in a good way honestly.
That fishing boat has low draft, so it could get over coral reefs, or help with clearing mines. Not as illogical as it looks.
Yeah, British Fleet carriers are really tough cookies, but being bombed is never pretty so it was definitely more damage than I suspected. Still, HMS Indomitable resisted those 250 & 60 kg bombs very well.
I'm loving this new mod and series!!
I'd get that CV repaired. You still haven't found the IJN carrier that attacked yours. Another attack like that one, and you lose half your carrier force. I know Wolf doesn't like subs, but it may be time to invest in 1 or 2 and go CV hunting.
if you hit ships from both sides, you can cause counter flooding. always attack one side
in every life some rain must fall
When the Catalinas attacked that convoy am I the only one who though
"TAKE out those Fing TP BOATS"
from COD WaW
Learning alot from your videos. Please keep them coming.
It might be time to rearm your aircraft carrier. Because right now your very vulnerable to air attacks since you barely have any fighter aircraft.
Some quality advertising for whatever kind of light cruiser that was
That was an incredibly tough light cruiser!! Plus zero damage on the strafed fishing boat? lol.
Those Albacore are the real MVPs.
The amount of carriers they have is astonishing
this is before the Battle of Midway so they have 6 fleet carriers, 2 of which were sunk during this campaign
Loving these videos, they're great. When I switch from Mac to a regular laptop this Summer, I'll be buying this game.
The only think I find slightly frustrating is that the AI doesn't take evasive action when torpedoes are dropped. Even small fast destroyers keep sailing in a straight line and get hit! Feels a bit unrealistic.
Fulmars are supposed to be recon aircrafts, but now they're multipurpose
These are great. Thanks for all of it.
Me at 12:15 : Ho, shinshu Maru, my beloved !!
Me 10 second later : YOU SAID WHAT !!!!!
I noticed the raiding ship that Wolfpack called Dutch, that flag actually matches that of Croatia
yes! another chapter. Thanks, Wolfpack.
Great show! I actually froz with a forkful of food halfway to my mouth when your carrier was under attack.
You should order carriers from the same factory as those in World of Warships
15:21 Germany had access to dutch vessels and flags in 42 so it makes sense that this was a false flag operation
Love the new look warships in this mod. Lucky Indomitable.
about that armored flight deck its not the whole flight deck its just the area over the hanger and engine rooms that are armored
I was expecting a disaster not a minor setback lol
To be fair, loosing your only active carrier in theater is a fairly MAJOR setback. Basically going to be on the back foot until one of those carriers comes back into service.
There were actually quite a few German freighter and auxiliary cruisers in Japanese waters wich got sold to the IJN since they really couldn't get home anymore since the war broke out
That fishing boat will avenger his fallen brothers and bring glory to the Emperor. You denied him death. He will deny you mercy.
Wolfpack putting out a lot of content! LOVE IT!
I look forward to seeing another episode
Not gonna lie. I am playing this on the hardest difficulty. I had to start 4 times over to understand that logistics is needed badly. And you really need to consolidatie in the beginning.
A lot of fun tho
Would it be better to have the escort ships sail TOWARDS incoming aircraft while the carrier sails away? My main thinking is one, getting to the aircraft before they get to the carrier, but also if ships can fire anti-air for I dunno, say two miles radius, then if they're close to the carriers (within that 2-mile radius) then the enemy aircraft don't have to fly through as much AA to reach the carrier. So I think it'd be better to make the aircraft fly through the entire AA defense instead of only opening fire once they're already within a couple miles of the carrier. Start shooting at them from further out.
awesome Series Thank you!!
Don't be fooled by the fishing boat... maybe it's some kind of clandestine operation going on. 😂
People on steam complaining that the airforce in this game isnt very effective....but from this series, I'm just not seeing it. :D
Wolfpack never disappoints!
never under estimate a british aircraft carrier especially with their armoured flight deck, the can literally take a kamikaze direct to flight deck and be launching again within 10 to 20 minutes shit some even take part in ship vs ship engagement and even coastal bombardment
I do love this mod and this game. But it always breaks my immersion when the AI ships don’t even try to turn to dodge torpedos/ bombs.
Didn’t the prince of wales dodge something like 15 bombs before she sunk with Repulse? I wish they could code it so ships would zigzag or try and form up in a tighter formation during air attack
I'm surprised you didn't let the crew finish the repairs on Indomitable before leaving combat. I was under the impression that the module health wouldn't go up unless it was repaired before leaving combat?
I love your videos! Could you include a link to the previous video in the series in the description of future episodes?
The rapid switching between camera angles and screens make it really hard to follow the action.
The odd-looking 'troop transport' is actually a landing craft depot ship named Shinshu Maru. She had an eventful life, sinking TWICE. Her first sinking was during the Battle of the Sunda Strait on 27 February 1942, when she was inadvertently hit by torpedoes fired from Mogami. She sank in shallow water, forcing the Commander of 16th Army (LTG Imamura Hitoshi) to take a swim. She was refloated in September 1942 and was under repair until November 1943. Her second sinking was after being torpedoed by submarine USS Aspro (SS-309) and then finished off by aircraft from Task Force 38.
15:20 Lord of War moment.
with all the duds, I wonder if the british started using historically accurate american torpedoes lol
Who gave the Royal Navy a batch of Mark 14's?
Would you want one of Combat Pilot's first expansion to be british navy planes like the albacore and sea hurricane and fulmare?
It’s better to lose Indomitable for 30 days than permanently, I say… but honestly, I know how much you love surface combat and feel the subs are OP, but you should still have a couple scouting out behind the enemy’s lines, especially if you end up perma-losing a carrier… even if you cap yourself to only use them when they are attacked by ASW.
Would love to buy the game if they simplified the MOD install process and cleaned it up some. Love the series..
Great video!
Just finished watching best episode yet!
Great play!
I feel like if they take a certain amount of damage or damage in certain places a carrier shouldn't be able to launch planes