Attack on a HUGE convoy. Silent Hunter 5 - The Wolves of Steel Campaign Gameplay Part 3

Please excuse the black borders on the sides. I´m playing this in a 16:10 resolution and the editing adds the black borders to make it fit a 16:9 full screen.
This is an random encounter with a transatlantic convoy during my career, which I then proceed to attack. We are now witnessing the third attack.
Part1:
• Attack on a HUGE convo...
Part 2:
• Attack on a HUGE convo...
The game is played with the amazing Wolves of Steel Mod that fixes most of the issues this game had and adds a ton of realistic features.
Get it here:
www.subsim.com/...
Stay tuned for more tutorials.

[@nealboswell8786]

Thanks for lightening up the night time portion...much more interesting to be able to see, and simulate darkness experience.

[@zachwilson2564]

Hey Tonci, I just wanna say that although this game genre isn't the most popular, these videos are gems for anyone who enjoys these types of games. The long form, very realistic and immersive way you have of playing these games is very entertaining. Your calm calculated demeanour is also really relaxing and enjoyable to listen to. Keep it up man.

[@Tonci87]

Thank you, that is a very nice comment :)

[@strykr4582]

Part 3 !!! Great job with the series. I'm still on SHIII.......but I"m still learning from you. Its like movie night ! Lol Thank you.

[@cyphi474]

You should fire at more distant targets first, so they have less time to avoid when first torpedo hits. G7a has 5/7.5/12.5km range(F/M/S), you can use that aswell.

[@mastema44]

Its like watching "Das Boot" but with detail explanation why they are doing what they are doing. And a little bit more realistic. Good content!

[@scottgarvey5779]

Mate, that was a target rich environment, I understand your happiness at finding it. I'll bet you wish you had a full compliment of torpedoes. Still 3 very well planned and executed attacks. I learnt alot watching that so thank you very much for sharing it. I will be watching more, cheers :)

[@Tonci87]

Thank you very much, that is a nice comment :)

[@rerun3283]

More videos, please! I like the way you narrate these videos.

[@F-o-s-s-e]

Great video series thanks

[@Coinkidoink]

i love your silent hunter 5 vids, so suspenseful :) hope you make more! and maybe more tutorials too? the four bearings method for instance if you use it, i always mess it up even with the documentation for it infront of me, but make whatever you want, i'll watch it :)

[@Coinkidoink]

just saw your vid about the 4 bearings vid being in the works, sweet :)

[@kevinsue4766]

Thanks for the great vids. I haven’t played TWoS for a while so I really enjoying your content. Regarding “Decks Awash”, you can adjust the decks awash level in the Options File Editor Viewer (OFEV). Setting it a meter deeper gets rid of the bow spray and makes you more stealthy. You can also use the OFEV to use the option to mouse in/out the HUD, torpedo controls and TDC dials. Keeps the view clear until you need them which is handy in low vis conditions. There is also a fantastic voice control mod on Subsim that adds a whole new dimension to the game.

[@Tonci87]

I'll have a look, thanks

[@chucktowne]

Does changing decks awash depth make you be able to be heard on hydrophones? Also, does it make you use batteries or do you keep using diesel?

[@jarekk81]

Well, I'm glad you are still alive :) Thought for a moment that some of those destroyers caught you. Anyway, great series as always. Still looking forward to that four bearings video you had mentioned before :) Stay safe :)

[@Tonci87]

That should be the next video I make. I already had it recorded once and then later discovered that the microphone was not plugged in. That was a lesson to always check the audio equipment beforehand :D

[@jarekk81]

@@Tonci87 you are joking? aren`t you :) hahaha lesson to be learned :) I think that 4 bearings and your plotting tutorial should be sticky at subsim. That would help a lot of guys. See you around :)

[@Loonsloon]

I'm amazed at how close you can get to the destroyer without being spotted. I don't remember being able to do this reliably in SH3 GWX; perhaps SH5 TWoS has better visual sensor modeling? I think this is probably more realistic..? Maybe it's the decks awash depth that allows it? Night time surface attack is supposed to be the bread and butter of the early war boats, but I can rarely get away with it in SH3... 28:00 those were extreme range shots- this is nearly all I do in late war - send them in from a safe distance at near max run length. It requires great TDC data.. Awesome scoring hits at that range - sorry about the tanker - never know - could have been a bad pistol.

[@Tonci87]

Yeah you can get pretty close as long as you keep them between yourself and the moon, use decks awash, and don´t present too much silhouette. Obviously it is much harder once they are alerted, as you could see when they started to shell me :D

[@johnpancoast3236]

Wolf pack would have been handy. Nice video.

[@Veronica-zz7bp]

Tonci, how do you go outside during decks awash? Everytime I go decks awash I can't go to the conning tower :/ is it some configuration?

[@Tonci87]

That is weird. There shouldn't be a problem. You can still teleport to the bridge.

[@luxman14]

Hi Tonci, I don't understand how you can tell at 11:09 that the convoy route is 140, rather than, say, 135 or 145.

[@Tonci87]

I see the ship at 265° with an AOB of 90°. The attack disc therefore shows me that the target is sailing a course of 140°

[@luxman14]

@@Tonci87 I saw that the attack disk indicated these positions, but the disk, when activated with the switch, shows only the direction of the sub. In the video, instead, the POV of the sub (265) and the course of the convoy (140) were already indicated by their respective pointers already positioned before activating the switch of the disk, so I wished to understand with which way you were able to discover the exact course of the convoy. I thought that you had found these parameters in one of the points not shown in the video, in fact at 10:48 starts the piece of video in which appears the attack disk with the pointers already positioned and the new course of your sub at 145 (the last indicated in the log was 167). It's a night chase, very dark as you mention at the beginning of the video, almost impossible to use the RAOBF, so I wondered how you found the exact data, maybe you just followed a ship for a while and found the course... Also, if the sub goes for 145 and the target for 140, it looks to me that you're looking at 95° instead of 90°. Believe me, I don't want to make any criticism or polemic, your videos are excellent, it's just to understand better.

[@Tonci87]

@@luxman14 I understand now. Basically I had cut out a part of the video where I make a first observation (you can hear me talking about verifying my observation at 10:58). With the videos being this long, I had to make some cuts here and there :D

[@Dusty7460]

I have watched all of your videos, can you please start a playthrough, I would love to see proper SH 5 gameplay while I am at work also I hope I can learn something too and test it when I have some spare time. Please do consider . Thank you for your efforts.

[@Tonci87]

Silent Hunter will return to the channel again :)

[@Dusty7460]

@@Tonci87 thank you, can't wait. and as a side note, post video from the new campaign when able don't stress yourself too much with it and enjoy !

[@nicolaiandersen1402]

Hey Tonci! Are you playing on a steam version or non-steam version? And for anyone out there, do you guys know how to install this on a steam version? It is a nightmare to figure out for me

[@Tonci87]

I´m playing on a non steam version. It should be possible to install TWOS on a steam version as well. There are tutorials on subsim.com

[@nicolaiandersen1402]

@@Tonci87 I've tried it a couple of times with different tutorials, nobe of them seem to work for me. I don't know why

[@Tonci87]

@@nicolaiandersen1402 I´d love to help, but I do not have any experience with the steam install.

[@nicolaiandersen1402]

@@Tonci87 Do you have a physical dvd copy, or where did you download it from? I'm thinking of re-buying it, because the Steam version is beyond screwed and I really don't have the technical expertise to fix it. Plus it's not that expensive, so it's fine :)

[@Tonci87]

@@nicolaiandersen1402 DVD

[@luizengrazia5169]

Did you really eyeballed the distance?

[@Tonci87]

Yes, with some experience it becomes possible. Also it is not that bad if you get the distance a bit wrong

[@jamesmaverick9553]

What mod did you use

[@Tonci87]

The wolves of steel

[@johnpancoast3236]

How fast were you going at decks awash ? Seems very fast.

[@Tonci87]

At what time in the video?

[@johnpancoast3236]

@@Tonci87 Anytime you were. At times, it seemed you were going flank speed at decks awash ?

[@Tonci87]

@@johnpancoast3236 Oh yes, absolutely

[@johnpancoast3236]

@@Tonci87 No point in being awash at that speed. Defeats it's purpose anyway. Surface and use the extra speed to your advantage.

[@Tonci87]

@@johnpancoast3236 The point is that I present a smaller and lower silhouette. It helps.