IL-2 1946: Arctic Convoy Battle

[@smigoltime]

I think this is by far your best video when it comes to camera work and scenario... really. Freaking love it.

[@smigoltime]

Damn the camera work in this one is incredible

[@Fishyyy]

Thx

[@omarb10legends99]

Those twin-barreled MG-81s wrecked havoc on that Wildcat. Brrrrrrr lol

[@Fishyyy]

I was not happy with the final look of the original video, so I rerendered the 1080p 30 fps footage in 4k 60 fps. This should mean that YT allows a higher bitrate for the video and that it should look cleaner. Anyone feel like buying me a 4k monitor? :D Original video for comparison: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6LJaHumhZKVebc

[@maddog5395]

Good work!

[@bentilbury2002]

Agreed, it was excellent work. Very exciting and well edited.

[@M4rcom44]

yes, definitely better

[@timonsolus]

If you saved up your Patreon income, for several years (decades?) you could buy a 4K monitor... ;)

[@timeandnourishment1961]

20:59 - Tomato Heinz. Ouch! Much better version than original. Thanks 😊!

[@DarkenedFantasies]

[High Quality Comment]

[@jmccallion2394]

That F4F pilot deserves a CMO for dogged determination in pressing home these attacks!

[@vladovu]

Damn, those rear gunners on Stukas and bomber gunners were just deadly, weren't they? 🤣🤣🤣

[@tennesseeridgerunner5992]

Some of your best work. I love seeing Wildcats in The Atlantic.

[@jameslongstreet9259]

22:35 Battle of Britain music intensifies

[@scotty6346]

Oleg Maddox and his team were brilliant!

[@evelynkondrusik5404]

Cool 'cinematography' - well put together clip! Those He111s were on a total suicide run without fighter cover...

[@jmccallion2394]

22 min looks like someone forgot to put the blender lid on while making that raspberry smoothie in the upper middle turret!!!

[@eli_7295]

These naval battles always are an absolute blast!

[@CheckSix]

Great shooting by Marcom

[@jekylthorn8969]

Those later Stukas had a real sting in their tail!!

[@commieswine]

I love the style of this video! Feels much more viceral

[@elliotjoseph6093]

Graphics is getting better in the game.

[@LowSparkofHighHeeledBoys]

I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Fantastic views. Immersed me right in the battle. 👍🏻

[@georgea.567]

I love anything with the Fleet Air Arm in it, Unsung heroes of WW2.

[@timonsolus]

Those were American FM-2's, not British Martlet Mk. VI's, I believe.

[@georgea.567]

@@timonsolus I don't know of any time American carriers escorted an arctic convoy though.

[@sargesacker2599]

@@timonsolus Those look like F4F-4’s since they have six .50 cals.

[@daveharringbone8512]

In the water = dead fast

[@olafweerts7653]

Ha! Like watching a war movie (a great one)!

[@robgraham5697]

Every time I see someone go into the water I think, "They're dead." Frozen to death within five minutes.

[@kevinjohnson8220]

If you're hitting the water at 250mph you don't have to worry about hypothermia

[@Moostic]

I am here on the personal request of Fishyyy to comment on this video so we can break through the KZbin blockade. *you should too.*

[@Fishyyy]

Exactly!

[@JamesLaursen-h3j]

To your knowledge, did Stuka pilots ever attempt "skip bombing?" Techniques?

[@EttoreB93]

Man I remember playing the shit out of1946 modded, it still has cool details like cockpit damage that other sims don't have, so cool I want to reinstall it

[@cmanningdeal6228]

LOl...and it just HAD to be Wildcat number 13...

[@GTOAviator]

20:54 RIP

[@frankgaletzka8477]

FW 190 one of the best fighter planes in WW 2.

[@adiconsdaple2285]

There was no Focke-Wulf.

[@danikoo582]

​@@adiconsdaple2285 any proof?

[@LeDeux11]

gaijin thinks this video is unrealistic and that the stukas turn too fast

[@jg7Momo]

Awesome man 😎 I wanna see some Battle of Britain again

[@Matheus61O9]

I was on the deck of the boat and held a 400gk bomb in one hand and 2 250gk bombs in the other and threw the 3 bombs into the sea😤🥶

[@raymondyee2008]

Getting to Murmansk was risky business. Wonder where were the Hurricats.

[@derapixela]

A MA Z I NG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@hectorbustamante2844]

B

[@s-Yori_]

Thks for your movies. Very nice Good job!

[@Pablo-xf8oh]

Did a battle like this accrue? And where there arctic hellcats?? This is to cool I’m completely nerded out

[@Fishyyy]

Yeah. The Hellcats took of from a US carrier. Some of them were on convoy duty in the atlantic.

[@jonredcorn862]

Marcom my dude youre still flying! Where you at these days I am back on the sticks!

[@Fishyyy]

He's with me :)

[@jonredcorn862]

@@Fishyyy Glad to see you guys still enjoying 1946!

[@M4rcom44]

@@jonredcorn862 always in service let's f...g Gooo!!

[@cricket-lt8nc]

19:14 That actually made me jump lol. Nice video!

[@jmurkz]

outstanding!

[@linoantoniosaavedra9522]

amazing!!

[@kg_sroberth2238]

Gegen den Algorithmus!

[@kevinjohnson8220]

Utter carnage. I loved it.

[@neyazalzahwi6919]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@UltorCXXVIII]

Beautiful editing!

[@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu]

Need a Haunebu mod.

[@Welther47]

The video is great and entertaining. But it also highlights how insane and wasteful this kind of fighting really was.

[@Fishyyy]

"There are no winners, only victors and vanquished." - John Luckadoo, B-17 crew member

[@Welther47]

@@Fishyyy I was thinking more of all the metal and oil going into the sea.

[@Fishyyy]

I think that is the least important part of the story, to be honest. I mean, the stuff that was supposed to be sent is meaningful. The people who were on those ships over rule any other thought anyway. One human life > all the stuff in the world.

[@Welther47]

@@Fishyyy "One human life > all the stuff in the world" - I don't agree with that statement.

[@Fishyyy]

I actually have to agree, cause the German first amendmet says so, and I do. "Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar" - human dignity is untouchable. Means, one human life is worth as much as all of them and endlessly much.

[@vincentbaretti3114]

I'm impressed that there is a Swastika on the tail of the Stukas, and it wasn't whited out because it might be offensive to someone. I recently began a patrol in career mode for Silent Hunter 3 and while leaving Wilhelmshaven I noticed the Swastika was whited out on the Kriegsmarine flag that was flying from a German destroyer and schnellboote. The powers that be should realize the people that are into these types of games are also well versed in history, military history, some like myself are veterans, and we all have a thick enough skin that we're not offended at the sight of a Swastika! Be historically accurate and leave these games alone!

[@Fishyyy]

YT does not seem to care about them, so I display them. It's not an issue apparently :)

[@2bidfilmsguy]

@@Fishyyy it is if you want your video monetized, youtube has a bad track record with de-monitizing anything that could even remotely be offensive to anyone so they dont offend advertisers, you know like demonitizing gun channels like TFB TV but then still showing me youtube ads for guns, holsters, scopes, training etc before said video, honestly I feel like they just do it to cheat creators out of ad revenue

[@adiconsdaple2285]

👍🏻😍👍🏻❤️

[@jagcop8357]

What an epic battle, brave mens on both side.

[@danikoo582]

That's not epic

[@Bigforehead.]

This mission looks familiar tho

[@tradventure]

What kind of ordinance for the Ju 88s dropping?

[@Fishyyy]

Italian parachute torpedoes that drive around in circles. Very handy torpedo armament, but sadly we didn't hit anything with it, although it was really close a few times. That shot of the DD shows two torps missing it by 100m.

[@jekylthorn8969]

Does this mod have blood spatter effects for dead gunners etc? Thought I saw some in the bombers?

[@Fishyyy]

He-111s having gore effects is a vanilla thing. was introduced in 2007 or so.

[@jekylthorn8969]

@@Fishyyy Oh, ok! Didn't know that as I haven't played this game for a long time! Many thanks for the awesome videos!

[@Sublogics]

Ich bin gespannt wie lange es dauern wird bis 1C einen ähnlichen Umfang an Inhalt bei IL-2 Great Battles erreichen wird. Das kann ja noch Jahre dauern...

[@spinnenbein1]

Nice!

[@shahrookhshroff3018]

Is there really any reason why Luftwaffe aircraft are shot down by MG - wielding Hellcats, but the Hellcats just get holes in their cockpit glasshouses when the former shoot at them?

[@Fishyyy]

Why don't you mention the time we shot down the Wildcat?

[@shahrookhshroff3018]

@@Fishyyy How many Hellcats actually shot down versus those with holes in their cockpits? This is the moot question!

[@Fishyyy]

Well, you know that American fighters are usually armored, right? The front of a Wildcat can withstand 7.92 fire pretty well. No aircraft is .50 cal proof, some heavy bombers can resist a bunch of it, but none of the german twins could. By the way, should probably not misidentify an aircraft, before you engage in a technical discussion about it.

[@shahrookhshroff3018]

@@Fishyyy Point explained clearly and taken well ...apparently the "wild" cats got a taste of "hell" ... 😼🙀

[@SAarumDoK]

That battle was a blast to watch. But i am wondering what were theses bombs with the white parachutes that the Ju88's dropped ? Wake-homing torpedoes or mines ?

[@Fishyyy]

Electric torpedoes that drive in circles.

[@u.nforcesalx9892]

Just wondering but what skins did you use for the stukas

[@Громозвёзд]

Wait a second: why the Ju-87D-3 Stuka's engaging the F4F wildcat? Because the tactic of german pilots was "Drop the bomb, reverse and climb into the clouds" (Oh, sorry for my english, I am from Ukraine)

[@Fishyyy]

What were we supposed to do? Not fight back?

[@Громозвёзд]

@@Fishyyy , they must escape and defend themselwes with tailgunners

[@Громозвёзд]

And guy, I am sorry for critiquism)

[@Fishyyy]

Climbing back into a cloud, when you just dropped your bombs in the middle of a convoy is a bad idea and pretty much impossible. Staying low makes you a tough target for ship gunners, while climbing in the middle of the ships is suicide. Getting back to cloud level takes multiple minutes. The fighter engaged us immediately after we had gotten out of the convoy, there was no time to get anywhere near any cloud. Relying on the rear gunners is way worse then actively fighting back. It's just logical that you would rather be behind the Hellcat, then in front of it. It can't shoot backwards. I guess you read about that tactic you mentioned somewhere and want to apply is to every situation? The one we were in clearly doesn't fit for it.

[@Громозвёзд]

@@Fishyyy Thank you for the discusion, comrade! Again, sorry for critiquism bro. Bye! (That's not Hellcat, that's Wildcat)

[@cerahjoselet7423]

what are those things the ju 88's are dropping? radio beacons?

[@Fishyyy]

Electric circling torpedoes. Unfortunately they don't really create a torpedo wake and are pretty invisible. Good for a torpedo, bad for their dramatic effect in a video.

[@epicforger12345]

How did you use the static camera on the stuka

[@Pandacat80]

what do those parachute bombs do?

[@Fishyyy]

They are circling electric torpedoes.

[@migmadmarine]

@@Fishyyy did they ever hit anything?

[@IvanB-w9w]

Guys, can anyone post links with downloadable patches? Mission4Today is not transparent reference anymore, with plenty of dead and non-functional links. I'm stuck with the proper installations, because there is no proper English version of IL-2 1946 4.13.1 m patch.

[@AnthropoidOne]

I’m scared

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

what were the para dropped bombs supposed too do ?

[@Fishyyy]

Those are electric torpedoes that circle in an area. They hit ships and sink them.

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

@@Fishyyy thought they might have been mine's or homing torps , thanks for the information

[@robotspark363]

BUT I CAN'T SEE THE TRACERS

[@robotspark363]

THE WAR ENDED IN 1945

[@Fishyyy]

We only attack unarmed ships, where would we be if they shot back?!

[@robotspark363]

THOSE AREN'T IL-2S THEY'RE JU 87B-2S

[@robotspark363]

WHAT'S A REUP

[@rasterop9838]

@@robotspark363 yes, that's the name of the game. ;-)

[@ВиталийКирейко-д1э]

Не видно противодействия судов конвоя! На КАЖДОМ ,,корыте" стояло МИНИМУМ 4 зенитки, не считая огневой мощи кораблей прикрытия. А так- игра в одни ворота! как на полигоне!

[@Fishyyy]

The sheer level of incompetence, ignorance and stupidity of this comment is utterly shocking. My faith in humanity has been crumbling for a long while now, but this tops everything. Unbelievable. Please never watch any of my videos ever again.

[@Fishyyy]

Did you buy some glasses yet? Or a working monitor?

[@rachelabrantegil662]

sweeet video❤😍

[@kurtman752]

Pft usa wildcats never fought in europe

[@Fishyyy]

yes, they did.

[@kurtman752]

@@Fishyyy us navy wildcats?proof of it maybe the faa martlets but I can't find any info about that either ,

[@Fishyyy]

i mean, this is somewhere in the arctic part of the atlantic. no idea why i should proof wildcats in europe, when we talk about a completely different part of the world. Also, it's a game and i can use what i want, where i want and when i want. wasp and or ranger did escort duty, so i didn't care when DF chose the wildcats.