Close In Naval Skirmish With Royal Navy Corvettes | Wolfpack

[@tonybaker55]

My Dad was on RN Destroyers at the start of WWII and then transferred to a Flower Class Corvette in 1943. The corvettes carried 70 depth charges, but also has anti-submarine "Hedgehog", which are forward firing 178mm shells. They could be used during sonar operation, unlike depth charges. Looks like you were lucky to not be sunk.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Hedgehog was introduced in 1942, I think Wolfpack can only be set to either 39 or 40 currently. Quite something to be aware of in other subsims though when they become available...

[@ChucknDeuces1]

I’m a big fan of all the GR videos, but oddly enough, the Carrier Command and Wolfpack series might be my favorites. Thanks for the videos!

[@5Andysalive]

i really like how you actually hear the others do stuff in the background. Like Damp furiously working his levers and wheels when diving. Gives it some nice immersive realism, even if the footage is almost only periscope. Not sure even Silent hunter 3 or 4 represented the crews actual actions visually and audibly like that. Of course the decades in between the games might make a difference. Uboat doesn't but the focus of that is a bit different.

[@Ecrocken]

I absolutely LOVE the Wolfpack videos! Great crew but Kortana is the most BA member!

[@mamarine81]

I lost it when Damp asked Cap if he wanted a Snickers. Fantastic video. Love the action and the humor.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

I lost it already when he wanted to give them oranges to prevent them from getting scurvy... :D Not gonna lie, he's basically GR's Pinkie Pie... :D

[@Mobius118]

Quite incredible they’ve programmed it such that if you talk too loud it could allow the enemy to hear you! I still think damp opening and slamming all the doors made the enemy corvette come around again to depth charge you right before the end

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Definately a good idea to just leave the doors open...

[@RuralSurvivalLLC]

I love "rig for red". So relaxing at 500' and four knots to nowhere.

[@cylindricalbobcat5701]

Big sorry on spooking the convoy Cap, will be more disciplined next time. Flowers was charging us directly 0 degree angle on bow, went for a submerged aft tube snapshot, but they broke off pursuit right after the fish hit the water. Want to try some coordinated target plots next time, got some ideas.

[@Kron161]

I love submarines and with very few exceptions, i think i've played all the sub sims since silent hunter 1. A pro tip: move ahead of the convoy on the surface, then dive and let them come to you. Do not use ballast tanks to change the depth. Set neutral buoyancy and rise/dive with dive planes.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Totally agree on the tips. Basically just leave the trim tanks as is, just use the negative tank (fill it before diving and blow it once submerged, may be used to get deep quicker when being hunted as well, but the deeper you are, the more air it takes to blow it) and do the rest with diveplanes, unless you're trying to sit dead in the water engines off.

[@w3bbyman]

Crew now need to whisper so that they can't hear you - also Damp - moving through all of the squeaky bulkhead doors to get a piece of candy!

[@carlousmagus5387]

Sorry you aren't feeling well Cap, praying 🙏🏿 for your restoration.

[@jeremyharris9648]

Such a fun video, I love Wolfpack an subs in general. Pro tip when the destroyer starts using his Asdic to ping you turn your sub an put him either directly off your bow or stern to give him the least silhouette as possible. when he gets over you get ready to knuckle left or knuckle right to avoid his depth charges. It’s a tense moment in the game! Would love to join you for a session of Wolfpack sometime

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Great advices! Also, just firewall it once the pinging stops, add in a depth change while pushing it and get silent immediately after those barrels went up.

[@rubiconnn]

Just so you know when you guys are yelling and stomping around and slamming doors in the sub while submerged it makes it super easy for the enemy ships to locate you. You need to remain silent and reduce all noise when possible.

[@andrewjvaughan]

But it makes for far better youtubes!

[@pokeybit]

Get the WD40 modpack installed.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

@@pokeybit Got fricken torpedoes for a few hundred thousand RM each, but no fricken WD40 for 5 Mark... :D

[@jgischer]

@@andrewjvaughan I dunno, I think the Reapers can be entertaining while whispering...

[@kurthummitzsch9948]

Great job by both boats. About Asdic, if looking from the side it pings in a triangular shape with the point of the triangle from the escort to the wide base. Theoretically you could slip under the cone of the ping if at proper depth and close to the escort. From the top its a similar shape with the point at the bow and the base away from the ship. Its possible to get out of the cone, but very difficult. Once they pass over you they lose contact. Keep in mind with hydrophones if your propeller is pointed at the escort they will detect your engine noise easier. You are correct, it is a cat and mouse with subs and escorts.

[@RLD_Media]

Something tells me to trust this guy Chap..

[@grimreapers]

thxx

[@Davros-vi4qg]

Oh, U Boat vs Corvette, with a seasick CAP!

[@davidconnellan6875]

S.O.P. for Corvette crews.

[@yeoshenghong4802]

I thought modern submarine doesn't need to come to sea level to locate target and fire anti ship torpedo

[@Davros-vi4qg]

It’s a historic game, simulating World War 2 convoy attacks.

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @Grim Reapers! Can't wait for the next video of Wolfpack or DCS man! The Flower-class Corvettes only had a Top Speed of 16 knots (18.4 mph) which is usually that of the Transports as well. The River-class Frigates that were coming out in 1942 did 20 knots (23 mph) or, in the case of those with Turbines, 20.5 knots (23.575 mph). If you wanted an Allied Escort Vessel faster than either of them, then look no further than the American Buckley-class Destroyer Escorts with their Top Speed of 24 knots (27.6 mph), though some ships could do 26-27 Knots (29.9-31.05 mph). The British Royal Navy got 46 of these under Lend-Lease and used them as part of the Captain-class Frigates, along with 32 Ships of the Preceeding Evarts-class Destroyer Escorts. If you guys are even worse with your Luck, you could end up Finding a Hunter-Killer Group with 4 Destroyer Escorts and an Escort Carrier with up to 16 Fighter-Bombers and 12 Multirole Torpedo Bombers like a Bogue-class Escort Carrier which were in 2 Batches (the First having 11 Ships Retained for U.S. Service while the Remaining 11 were transferred to the Royal Navy and all 23 Ships of the Second Batch were Transferred to the Royal Navy as well, all to become known as the Attacker, Ruler (Ameer) and Prince William-class Aircraft Carriers) or 1 of 50 Casablanca-class Escort Carriers. I don't think I need to have you imagine getting Attacked by FM-2 Wildcats, Seafires, TBF/TBM Avengers or Swordfish with Depth Charges, Rockets or Guns. Now, if you're really Luck and Don't encounter any other Ship aside from a Flower or Two, you might have a Smorgasbord of Transport Ships including the Famed Liberty and Victory Ships, The T2 Tankers and even the C1, C2, C3 and possibly even the C4 Type Ships all in one Massive Convoy. Now, Bear in mind that the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy had two completely different approaches to their Hunter-Killer Groups. The British would have theirs act as a Distant Escort covering the Convoy while the U.S. Navy would patrol the Routes where the Convoys would be Traveling to look for and Sink any U-boats they came across, granted this worked when the Submarine was Surfaced for the Carrier Aircraft or just as the Sub was diving for the Destroyer Escorts.

[@davidconnellan6875]

Wow cool, my Grandfather served aboard a RCN Corvette during the war doing convoy runs out of Halifax to points south and east.

[@A_Haunted_Pancake]

"HEY CAP ! YOU WANT A SNICKERS ?!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@8wayspeed505]

I guess the oranges didn't work

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

I'd imagine he'd take a cup of tea if the mission time is set correctly...

[@MattyJ55046]

Cortana is a freaking badass.

[@BarbosaUral]

This is the third episode where cap surfaces near an enemy warship. I think Kortana should be captain.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Weird thing is the Flower was chasing the other sub already, but immediately switched over when they surfaced. As per debrief, the other team did exactly the same just a moment later and was very successful. Seems like the AI might hunt down the host boat first... wouldn't be the first game that does such things.

[@vec306]

Anytime a command is given it should be repeated by the person who is receiving the command. Retired Submariner speaking. This will stop the confusion. This has to be mandatory. Once it becomes second nature your team will fly (joke) through theses combat scenarios. Just a suggestion.

[@grimreapers]

Thanks VC

[@vec306]

@@grimreapers You and your team earn my respect.

[@KortanaDCS]

@@grimreapers I'd definitely second this. It would clear up the confusion we seem to get between helm and nav.

[@timblack6422]

Outstanding! Given the hand you were dealt

[@intosound913]

thanks for pushing through the dizzy spells super cap! love the content!

[@rubiconnn]

Trigonometry: the game.

[@grimreapers]

lol

[@CMDRSweeper]

Nuclear Submarines aren't boring, you have more capable weapons yes... But sonar and TMA is king! (True Motion Analysis) as you can never dare to poke your head up to look with radars specifically built to hunt periscopes and masts. It is a totally different type of warfare, even if you were taking a convoy like this.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

Cold waters is a chill low sim that nonetheless absolutely punishes you for poking above water. Best only done after you have dealt with escorts so you can harpoon the merchantlikes.

[@CMDRSweeper]

@@trazyntheinfinite9895 Old school Dangerous Waters is even more hardcore... You may be traveling the seas, looking at nothing, listening intently to find that contact and then start playing the maths game to find who, where and what they are and then plan a firing solution as well as an escape solution.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

@@CMDRSweeper i know. Thats why i used the term lowsim. Dangrrous waters was a bit too real for me. I wanna act being the capn and sonar man.... not study how to actually do it XD

[@dr.ryttmastarecctm6595]

I think your diving officer was using compressed air, not diving planes, to adjust the "coarse" depth. Training time.

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

"LI, genaue Tiefe halten!" :D

[@caldosan5823]

Valued Humanoids.. Don your Pirate Outfits

[@emmata98]

1:00:53 I agree with Kortana...

[@jamison884]

Damp, you have my permission to go deeper. Then warm up all of the torps, go around on the fat-back, re-laminate the button, rotate the meat racks, curl back the meat flaps, and initiate the minuteman II protocol. You will know your job is done when Cap lets out a giggle and indicates he's "spent" while speaking "British."

[@grimreapers]

lols

[@heatmyzer9]

Appreciate the content….you guys do a great job. Slight typo on the thumbnail banner.

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@ryansoto7093]

Cap as the CAP? Word 🤙🏼

[@jonskowitz]

I'm trying to figure out how that merchantman was still steaming at 7 knots with two torpedoes in it's engine rooms

[@CMarkem]

Appreciate the content! Love the subs! Go Navy!

[@RichDoes..]

5 minutes in and I'm expecting Jack Lemmon to appear... love your war bird videos though 🤣

[@BK45AUS]

Instead of trying to plot sub 2 enroute, why not get initial fix at start then send bearing and distance from grid intersections for ambush site and let them worry about getting there on time and undetected? would be easy to update as mission develops and you'd know where to expect them, as long as you get initial fix and a confirming fix before firing.

[@grimreapers]

Problem is Sub 2/3 is usually a noob sub so they need looking after.

[@BK45AUS]

@@grimreapers that why I thought a "preset" location might work.

[@ecbst6]

I hope Wolfgang Petersen is watching 🙂

[@emmata98]

The dev that watched the stream?

[@wolfecanada6726]

@@emmata98 Movie director......Das Boot

[@emmata98]

@@wolfecanada6726 ah

[@ecbst6]

@@emmata98 Just passed away on the 12th, I think.

[@emmata98]

@@ecbst6 then he can't watch

[@skeeterd5150]

This game really shows you what they had to do to destroy merchants. Silent hunter is an arcade game compared to this. I always wondered when I played that game how they actually plotted base courses without updating maps. Well this shows it. Reading out distances and headings one can plot it

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

SH still has the whole navigation thing taken over by AI (perfectly), you'd just have to take ranges and bearings manually at FR. I've dumped 2-3 torpedoes into SH3/4 tankers or larger merchants as well without sinking them, more often than not. But if you manage to hit the right spot, a single one literally breaks it. Haven't seen those weak spots in WP yet, at least not as pronounced.

[@montys420-]

Cap you guys have to try to get inside the convoy, get out in front by a few km then get right on there track submerge and destroy the convoy from the inside out, it will be the last place the flower's will look, and if you've got a 2nd sub if there attacking from outside the convoy with a flank ambush they'll probably recieve the flowers attention while no 1 boat can reek havoc!

[@mallyuk1]

Love it thanks for the good content am loving it But when on surface why have the scopes just have the Capitan on the UZO reading out readings and some body with Binos keeping watch when dived use your planes more soundsman keeping watch on DD chasing you. and rig for silent running love it love sub games keep it up cheers to you all

[@absolutezero6423]

During silent running you may want to practice lowered voices and keeping mic. chatter to a min. Opening/closing doors and other crew noise should be avoided . Lol. Damp is going to get everyone killed.☠🤣

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Why do you look like BIGNEWY? :D

[@Ecthaelyon]

More please... :)

[@JulianQ]

Hello Cap, I had a question and wasn't sure were to ask it so here I go, I am currently learning the FA18c and I am having trouble in A2G mode with low level clouds, since the TPOT cant see trough, are there any tips or tricks you know off to get around this?

[@grimreapers]

This is indeed a real problem. If the target is completely obscured the only solution I know is to have a ground JTAC call/guide weapons in.

[@JulianQ]

@@grimreapers Alright, I understand

[@wulfenii64]

Well done all!

[@montys420-]

Also cap are water columns modeled in game? Cause if so you could hide from the sonar under the thermal layer of water and not waste batteries and air.

[@KortanaDCS]

Not yet, but I think thermoclines are a planned feature

[@stupidassol]

Am I the only one that cannot see what the hell they're looking at for the first half of the video?

[@grimreapers]

lol yeh you gotta have really good eyes to make out the shapes.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Me being like: I can't see $#!p and they manage to ID them? Wha' in tarnation? They're hard to see at range as the sim has similar "foggy" haze as DCS, but YT compression doesn't exactly help making it better for the valued viewer. Oh, and twitch neither, think that's even worse.

[@lelouchjoestar1008]

46:20 NOH!.

[@tomkat7323]

i'm afraid i must urge the crew to mutiny against their captain, for poor decision making, reckless actions and most probably poor personal hygine! feed him to the sharks!

[@ryansoto7093]

Reapers

[@greylensman2834]

So Cap, When do you get the "Welcome Aboard" tattoo ?

[@grimreapers]

Will ask wife...

[@stretchka111]

Kortana and sock back wooooo

[@ryansoto7093]

Love

[@No1sonuk]

Maybe a snapshot at the corvette could have scored a hit?

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

They definately had a good chance... but they need to alter their tube loadout in the beginning to actually utilize such a rare possibility properly. Take out all the T1 from the rear compartment, they're useless there, T2 only. Front 2 tubes T1, 2 TII, take all T1s that are available and fill the rest with T2s. Try using T2 first, especially on escorts, then finish hit targets off with the T1s.

[@nicksGLI]

Scuttle Damp

[@coreymoyers]

Did anyone ever realize there were bubbles around the u boat when barely submerged?

[@ecke-hr1lo]

nice video, but how do i raise the front leading flaps on the J-11A

[@grimreapers]

Automatic with speed

[@RichDoes..]

I don't think rude thoughts every time I hear Cortana speaking... Gepetto stuff etc

[@ryansoto7093]

Because

[@seanpreston3653]

Miss Kartanna not sure how you spell your name. I'd follow you instruction in a U Boat np👊👊🍻

[@timbaskett6299]

Sock, take a shower, and use Lava soap!!! 😄I'm a bit of a math geek, and a sub plotting target range, bearing and targeting information is interesting to me.

[@patrickbruhn3483]

All Torpedoes have been fluffed?

[@seanmataya2290]

I can't find the Netflix show cap mentioned last episode. I'm in America is it UK only?

[@grimreapers]

Das Boot. I thought it was on Netflix?

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Just get the original full length movie (sometimes called TV episodes), it's still the best.

[@mgplaying8435]

Why don´t you kill the Flower first Cap? Wouldn´t it make things much easier this way?

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

You should play cold waters

[@stretchka111]

Lol missed sock

[@XanderDorn]

You got a typo in your title - "FIGTHTING"

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@fabricebarbon5886]

Interesting

[@andrewmitchell402]

pmsl, "how do you get motor oil off your genitals" thee question should be, Noooooooooooooo i do not want to know

[@tiadiad]

Royal Navy? AAAHHAHAHAAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAAHHAHAHHAAHHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAAHAHAAHHAHAHAAAAHHAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAHHAAAHHHAAHAHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAHHAHAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHHHAHAAHHAHA

[@RichDoes..]

whpo said "nice calm sea" across Biscay? I call b.s. on that lol

[@vec306]

Stop walking around and opening and closing hatches.

[@8wayspeed505]

Very important to hand out the oranges and snickers quietly

[@paulybassman7311]

Check Thumbnail spelling, supercap👍

[@grimreapers]

thx

[@scottr9900]

The caption. Oucth.

[@rodbey9318]

Can you get close enough for Cap to use his Luger/flare gun? He is a madman with those things

[@grimreapers]

lols

[@Zemiak72]

Can you test out R77 on 80 km flying at 40000 feet very fast? I saw video of ukrainian ace being shot down this way.

[@RichDoes..]

I was a minute man ... then watched 30 seconds of a tantric sex video by sting... I'm fkn celibate now

[@aibusatlas2643]

Can you do again the imperial navy vs usn 7th fleet carrier battle group with main airwing as 48 super hornet on carrier and f35 bs on lhd

[@resurgam_b7]

18:20 Uh, could you not give us Sock 🙄 I came to watch some top tier Wolfpack gameplay, not to listen to Damp making crass jokes about genitals 😒 Aside from that, a stellar video! You all got close enough to start throwing hand grenades onto the deck of that one merchant. You do still need to work on not being spotted 😁 but great job on taking out the ships you needed and mostly surviving. It's too bad that the game bugged out and you couldn't finish escaping.

[@grimreapers]

Agree, Damp is very crass.

[@resurgam_b7]

@@grimreapers I don't mind banter and jokes in the down time, but it is highly annoying when he (or anyone else for that matter) interrupts the flow of communication relevant to gameplay to talk about dicks. That, and I just don't enjoy gross jokes 🤨

[@8wayspeed505]

Cap using dead reckoning, nice work. I think?

[@grimreapers]

I'm also confused.

[@ryansoto7093]

Grim

[@RichDoes..]

lmao @ the citrus fruit

[@seanpreston3653]

LOOOOOOOOOSSSSE

[@pompeytid1970]

Good video but the bad language was out of hand in places. Could you beep it out post prod please so can watch with my kids who enjoy your flying sims?

[@ryansoto7093]

Spamming

[@ryansoto7093]

Comments

[@seanpreston3653]

Your

[@ryansoto7093]

The

[@Seandude05]

Whoever is shouting and coughing in the mic needs to learn how to use MUTE

[@Mjones8383]

The guy talking over cap and cortania with terrible not funny jokes is very annoying. Wish he'd just shut up until he's asked a question

[@gavinjupp5302]

Enough with the shouting !!!!!!!!!

[@brandonturientine4705]

Was I first ?

[@grimreapers]

Yup x

[@hawkertyphoon4537]

I am Shocked. This Cortana - that is the first Woman i have ever heard being competent at an Uboat Simulation game. Maybe that sounds Seggsist , or maybe i am on drugs by the male Hormones on the GR Channel... But this is the Kind of Woman i would love to navigate life with. Not even joking. Whoever she is spending her time with is one lucky bastage. This Lady seems to Rock das Boot!

[@warbuzzard7167]

Dude, it's KORTANA. She was born competent. Probably the first thing she did when she hit kindergarten was to square away every other little tyke with lunches and daily assignments. She's like a human-powered AI mutant!

[@bearandthebees4325]

Weirdly thirsty there mate...

[@Netbug]

Posts like these can only ever be sad and creepy... get a hold of yourself, man. And no, not like that.

[@KortanaDCS]

I'll be sure to remind my fiancée of how lucky she is 😅

[@hawkertyphoon4537]

Thirsty? Weird? Just honest, there was nothing sexual about it - at least not in my mind. Yours?

[@ryansoto7093]

The