Silent Hunter 4: Ep 02

[@rickcoona]

love the history elements, and keep it going!

[@strykr4582]

Just found this series after doing a SH4 search on KZbin, which I do periodically. Glad I did !!! Great presentation of the game, and learning history at the same time. Thank you.

[@devinhorner2358]

Thanks! I'm glad you found it. Life is slowing my production schedule at the moment, but I'm excited to make more of these soon

[@ronaldwatson1951]

Great mission and as always I always enjoy your history lessons on military equipment or procedures. I also went to the sub base in Connecticut, if it wasn't for my security clearance, I couldn't have stepped foot on that base. Good 👍 video

[@haydenc2742]

Started my binge watch of SHIV...love it!

[@JTelli786]

Hey broski, you planning to continue this series? Out of all the sub series over the last several years I've seen this one hits the mark as I love the fact that you point out some history as well. Would love to see it continue, anyway best wishes!

[@devinhorner2358]

Yeah, man, for sure!. I just started going back to school full time so these last few weeks have been crazy figuring out how all that works. My plan is to start getting back into my various series once my routine settles down.

[@JTelli786]

@@devinhorner2358 Sounds good man, school is tough but I of all people somehow made it so anyone can lol

[@2ndchancenomad212]

I've watched many but you so far have the best series. Need more. Great job.

[@ditzy_neko3362]

You sir, and Wolfpack have me playing S-Boats again in SH-4 and i have forgotten how much fun it was. With you two to watch as i play my game it feels like swapping sub stories at the galley on the Tender.

[@JTelli786]

Can't wait for you to show off the other boats in SHIV, personally excited for the Salmon class, something about it is so aesthetically pleasing.

[@MrRixy1974]

Fun Fact: Blue and white lighting on submarines were used to regulate sleep patterns as blue light didn't interfere with those sleeping like a white light would. Red lighting was still used for night vision.

[@lastcartridge]

I did not set out to spend 3 hours (I started this little binge with the first ep) rapt to the tv, but your style kept me watching. Superior work.

[@devinhorner2358]

Well, thanks for sticking with it. I try to keep 'em to around an hour but sometimes there's not a good place to break them up so they go long!

[@lastcartridge]

@@devinhorner2358 no complaints here!!

[@AlanTheBest97]

Ohh my god your videos just hits that spot for me. I swear I could watch these forever.

[@russellhall1756]

Hey mate, I watched Wolfpack345's new Sh3 type 21 career and was reminded of this series, hoping you continue it soon!

[@skeeterd5150]

Funny, I watched a WW2 in color and it said only one type 21 was deployed and wasn't very effective. Wolfpack's is extremely effective, haha. This video was awesome in such a different way.

[@DietrichMikowski]

How brilliant is this!!! So thechical and full of suspension. This has to continue!

[@IrishAmerican17]

@10:18 "raise the attack scope" - still doing flank speed, throwing off a rooster tail. :(

[@richgweil]

That moment when you see a Devin Horner Silent Hunter 4 video pop up in your KZbin... "Awesome!".. the moment you realize it's an old episode.."God damnit, Devin!". :)

[@stokerboiler]

That was one hellaciously escorted convoy. I even saw a Kagero DD. The IJN liked to use Kageros to escort CV TFs. For all that escorting, they were not particularly effective.

[@TheSDB13]

Awesome series so far! I've always wanted to do a Silent Hunter career since it's not so eye reliant like flight sims but I don't have the time :(

[@videomaniac108]

Thanks Devin for these extremely interesting and informative videos. I've been inspired to pick up SH3 and SH4 again and to start getting familiar with them again. I wish I could get my Steam version of SH 5 to work on my Windows 10 laptop. I am playing the Epic mod version of Coldwaters and like it a lot. I was an early enthusiast of Sub Command and its successor Dangerous Waters long ago.

[@sickk0073]

Amazing video, its better then watching submarine movies. Love the historical facts, your a great narrator and an outstanding sub skipper! Im hooked, great job!

[@reserviordog6366]

Great video man! Highly recommended voicebot for you! Made game play for silent hunter awesome. 👍

[@nikbear]

Coming late to this, but glad I've found it, just excellent missions, immersive and your knowledge really shines through, making this real quality 👍

[@becketmariner]

The quad launchers of S boats look like those old pepper box quad pistols.

[@matthewspindler2665]

New to the channel but this is my favorite game and i totally suck at it so the extra knowledge definetly will help me love it

[@flaviusbelisarius3240]

Game seems easier than Silent Service II.. the escorts are not aggressive and do not seem to find you quickly. In Silent Service II you had seconds to shoot before you were spotted and escorts were on you fast. I wish the new MicroProse would revisit that old gem.

[@skeeterd5150]

I subbed for these two videos. These are Wolfpack345(forgive me for the comparison) good, but different in the best way. Please continue the series. I love the historical flair you bring to these LPs.

[@patricklenigan4309]

and the Japanese survivors will forever speak of the Grey Wolf. A sub they detected, but could not find, causing a great damage for their failure.

[@DieterVanHolder]

Best series of this kind hands down!

[@josephpotipco5312]

Loved the History you included playing the game

[@spartanalex9006]

Well, with the early Mk.14s you actually do need to hit off 90 to detonate. The navy found that 45 degrees was the optimum impact angle for usage of the early Mk.14 detonators. Just and FYI for when you get to a fleet boat.

[@devinhorner2358]

That's true, now that you say that I remember reading that 90 degree hits collapsed the mk14 detonator wrong and they wouldnt go off.

[@spartanalex9006]

@@devinhorner2358 Yeah, there's a great video on YT about the many failures on the Mk.14 by a British Naval Historian. Just put Drachinifel Mk14 into the search bar.

[@devinhorner2358]

@@spartanalex9006 sweet! Thanks, I'll definitely take a look

[@IrishAmerican17]

@54:11 - "I wonder if lookouts saw our periscope?" - again, doing flank speed, throwing up a rooster tail.

[@jameswilliams1085]

More.....please....!!! Excelent!!! Loved It!!!

[@rentacowisgoogle]

Hope everything is good. Looking forward to the next episode!

[@devinhorner2358]

Hello! Me too, I need to re-prioritize my time to start making videos again. I miss it.

[@TarnishUK]

I've just plugged you on the Subsim Facebook group mate. :o)

[@devinhorner2358]

Thanks, man, you're always a good promoter lol

[@scabbbloxxie4100]

I didnt get a notification for this... it was a nice surprise to find it, but wtf yt?!

[@devinhorner2358]

Haha Cause its still unlisted and isn't supposed to be out yet XD How did you find it? From the playlist maybe?

[@scabbbloxxie4100]

@@devinhorner2358 yes! i was looking for a playlist to sleep by and i thought to myself, wait a seccy, i dont recall seeing a second episode... lol

[@leobieker9631]

You should do more episodes these are really well done!

[@stokerboiler]

Could we have some more, sir? Outstanding work!

[@jamesgraalman6220]

Great Video ! Chief :) ;:

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

Just an idea but you might wanna use this for your next patrol. A mod I made to mix up the skins of the tankers, freighters and transports. Did it about 4 years ago when I was seriously into SH4. On Subsim I went by the name max-peck. Anyway just a suggestion ;-)

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=226160 www.subsim.com/radioroom//downloads.php?do=file&id=4956

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

By the way - I cannot find any documentation to prove my point, but I am pretty sure at 33mins in you are suffering from battery drain.At full battery you can get 9 knots submerged, but at 50% battery power you lose a couple of knots. If anyone here knows better please correct me :-)

[@devinhorner2358]

@@DavidKing-ph8or hell yeah that would be great! Would you happen to have a link to that? Also I find modding this game is sometimes tricky. I know that real subs suffered from battery drain speed loss but I hadn't noticed if the game models it. That would be super cool if it did

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

I am pretty sure it does - I remember doing high speed runs and watching my speed drop from 9kt to 6kt as my battery drains. This is the merchant skin mod I made. www.subsim.com/radioroom//downloads.php?do=file&id=4956

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

At the start of the war it is a mix of civillian and gray, after a while the grey merchants start to show dazzle patterns, and near the end of the war it goes to the green and buff upper decks, also with dazzle. see here www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=226160

[@jasonthomas9596]

You know I watch this episode A couple of times. And after reading a couple of books on the convoys in the Atlantic. I have a theory on this but the first question I have to ask myself is is something that they put into the mod? Or was it something in the base game because this would be exactly what a convoying area would do if they got in contact they would break contact try to move away reposition himself to go in another run. In real life there's no way that a convoy wouldn't have taken the opportunity to reposition themselves before taking another run at it. They'd have wanted to try and lose you and make sure they lost you first it sounds like to me dumb luck on the games part it went a random direction or a couple random directions and just happened to run smack dab into you again. Because cowboys do that sometimes they go back and forth on course and they may have simply bumped back into you because they're repositioning.

[@devinhorner2358]

Sometimes the convoy commanders would make odd decisions and turn right back toward the attack boat. Often this was because they believed they were under attack by multiple subs, even when there was only one. In the confusion they might think that staying on the planned zig-zag might be safer, or its just bad luck that they turn towards the sub because they don't know where it fired from.

[@jasonthomas9596]

@@devinhorner2358 all in all it's still a good hunt.

[@Jukebocks]

This was an experience. Thank you.

[@shibiwowsawesomegaming4783]

How do you get the AOB so quickly? I just started playin this. That's what seems to be giving me the most trouble, I watched a little how to, but still very hard to understand. One tutorial said "easy" and it was filled with math formulas. I know it's a sim, which I love, just want to know maybe if there is an easier way to calculate it in game.

[@devinhorner2358]

Honestly I'm eyeballing it because I've done it for long enough I have a sense of where the ship is pointing. The recognition manual gives you the views for 90 and 45 degrees, so based on that I look at where the ship is and that narrows down it course to a range of less than 45 degrees. Sometimes I'll set AOB at 45 and wait for the ship to sail into the angle. Otherwise I give it a good guess, then back it up by doing the calculations after. EDIT: Oh, I also rely a lot on the navigator. Keep taking range calculations to give him a lot of data and he usually gives you pretty good course and speed. That's his job, let HIM do the math. Like I say, a captain's job isn't to turn every knob on the boat.

[@shibiwowsawesomegaming4783]

​@@devinhorner2358 So lets say for example, lets say im heading 010 and the ship is heading 090, a good AOB would be about 35 degree's ish?

[@devinhorner2358]

@@shibiwowsawesomegaming4783 yes that sounds about right. The main thing is using angle to determine the enemy ship's course, though, so if you have already figured out the course, enter that in the torpedo computer

[@devinhorner2358]

@@shibiwowsawesomegaming4783 Yes, i think that sounds about right. I actually just found this in passing that seems pretty easy to calculate a lead angle as well, if you're interested: www.couscouscrabcakes.com/okane.html

[@videogenics86]

Your boys might be tired, but they are also probably feeling very good cause they were in on some of the first bit of revenge against the Japanese after Pearl.

[@devinhorner2358]

Yes, I have to imagine morale is through the roof right now!

[@jtphr33ky]

More please!!!

[@doxierottenbreath5773]

Making a second video at night is even worse - come on Devin, give us something we can see!

[@roberts1938]

Great mission! 🏴‍☠

[@novazoid1717]

Curious, will you be playing permanent death if destroyed or play until end of war whether you get destroyed or not? I just found your channel and subscribed, love it! Unfortunate that it will take some time to upload due to schooling but as long as you do a general recap each episode, worth the wait! Best series out there!

[@devinhorner2358]

My main goal is always storytelling, so really it would depend on the situation. If I die because of an unrealistic circumstance or me doing something half-assed because its a video game, you probably won't ever see it. But if its a heroic death and is emotionally engaging, then it'll be time to invent a new captain and pick up where the old one left off. I want to reach the end of the war, but I don't really know how we'll get there.

[@novazoid1717]

@@devinhorner2358 That's exactly what I was hoping to hear! Thank You! Keep up the good work!

[@josephthesupertramp6947]

I love this one!

[@novazoid1717]

Any updates on the next episode? Would love to watch this series continue!

[@devinhorner2358]

Yes, episode 3 already has some parts filmed, and I would like to do some more later this week, so maybe have something out in the next week or two (depending on how much research I end up doing).

[@dovpauzner5093]

Amazing !

[@Badger8th]

Has anyone else been attempting this mod setup? Tried it myself yesterday but must have screwed something up because my crew weren’t rotating on watches and they all ended up at 0 fatigue.

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

I am willing to help you - Are you familiar with JSGME? Is that how you enabled the mods? Plus Most importantly, are you running the 1.5 version of the game? IIRC RFB and RSRD do not run in 1.4?

[@Badger8th]

David King thanks! Yes I have the retail gold disc so I’m on 1.5 and I’m using JGSME. Only mods I downloaded/Installed were RFB 2.0 RFB patch RFB IJN Troopships RSRDC

[@devinhorner2358]

Thanks, David. I've been busy and haven't been keeping up with comments. SH4 modding can be tricky sometimes, I don't understand it half the time myself lol

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

First thing I would suggest, load just RFB 2.0 and the RFB Patch, run only those 2 mods, try a new career for a few days and see if the crew rotation works in it. Let's try and narrow it down ;-) Sorry for the delay Ben - real life got in the way

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

Plus one other thing - make sure you don't call Battlestations and then forget to turn it off! This keeps all 3 watches awake until they literally drop from exhaustion. Done that a few times myself!!

[@Murat807]

Great run, thank you.

[@becketmariner]

Heheh you're in a alternate dimension where the s-38 totally ninja-ed all the IJN ships. Those ocean liners you sank didn't make it to the invasion, so in that reality it was much more harder for the Japanese to conquest the Philipines, less resources to gank the Chinese, and Vietnamese.. You saved lots of lives. The Japanese still won, but it was much much harder to do so. Then Ho and Kim, and Mao, and, Sukarno, Chang had easier time.

[@matthewspindler2665]

I think id have went in close finished it off with deck gun

[@fredi1608]

hey, I really enjoyed the first 2 episodes, will you be continuing this series?

[@devinhorner2358]

Yes I've been editing episode 3 for the past few days

[@Jessica-si5wo]

Can someone please help me? is it normal there are no voices when you select man the deck gun for example? I hear voices when i change speed or course but when i select man the deck gun it stays silent? Is this normal? Thx in advance

[@theannihilator7989]

Could you do the blues Brothers in BMG DRIVE

[@SanderCokart]

my god I want a part 3 xD

[@pabloojeda3750]

Saludos desde Argentina.

[@naudiatf2791]

23:32 LMFAO

[@Jukebocks]

12:56 WHAT NINE THOUSAND??

[@Conn30Mtenor]

I miss this game. So. Much. The steam version is rubbish.

[@ryankeyes4068]

Can you do more of your RAF or North Vietnamese campaign a lot of let’s players do Silent Hunter but no one does Strike Fighters not that I don’t like your Silent Hunter videos

[@TarnishUK]

I'm simply enjoying them all. :o)

[@lintwy8164]

did not think they said CRASH DIVE,????