Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific | USS Salmon

Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific | USS Salmon | Ep.13 - Sub Hunter!

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@wylandnares8642 8 ай бұрын

"Sighted three Enemy Submarines. Sank two of the same with deck gun. One Escaped. Apologies for Job Unfinished." -Taken from the Radio report of Captain Buck O'Hare, October 13, 1942. Your sub's 3 inch gun would definitely have a Higher rate of fire compared to the larger 5.5 inch guns of the Japanese Sub, Even more so with how experienced your crew are! All those trawlers and Junks made for excellent target practice for your crew, and made them extremely good shots and fast loaders. Quite an exciting Battle, and looking forward to more of USS Salmon's exploits! Oh, and remember to put on an Air radar and a better AA gun once your patrol is done, it'll save you a lot of grief against enemy Aircraft.

@Scarletlord 8 ай бұрын

Doing a campaign in that big white Japanese submarine would be sick.

@mikkojk83 8 ай бұрын

Something the game doesn't tell you: When you get a new boat during the career, it's given in it's default state which in this case meant that you lost the 20mm Oerlikon and the SJ Radar and you need to buy them again. Also, since the different boats have slightly different crew layouts, game in your case accidentally misplaced some of the crew. Result of this is empty 1st and 3rd Deck watch which is one reason for lack of spotting callouts and some of the crew are in wrong compartments of the boat. Short guide to crew management: Icon on picture is specialization, green bar on the left is skill level of the shift (1,2,3), top green bar is for skill level of the on-duty/battle stations crew. And like someone mentioned, check if the SD radar in on, game might have turned it off.

@Fish40able 8 ай бұрын

Looks like the SD radar mast is not raised. Should be almost as high as a raised periscope when extended.

@malkymac7258 8 ай бұрын

Taff, do you have your SD Air Warning Radar switched on? When it is on, it picks up planes at about 10-13 miles out. You should be able to get to periscope depth long before they get to you. It also appears you didn't pick up the SJ Surface Search Radar for the new boat. It should be available for free from about June 1942.

@roberts1938 8 ай бұрын

I wonder if you have radar warning of planes? You should avoid swimming near the surface on sunny days. It is better to move on the surface at night. Although the Japanese didn't get away with it. A very interesting episode. I have never seen such a charge against two other submarines. Who invented this anyway - AI?

@kristianfischer9814 8 ай бұрын

The small craft you sank at the start must have been carrying napalm by how much they burned.

@arifnasfi801 8 ай бұрын

Try to storm the brunei port, you may get a huge jackpot like Musashi/Yamato in there...

@benjaminburt8725 8 ай бұрын

Not to mention all the Tankers, Brunei is rich in oil

@arifnasfi801 8 ай бұрын

@@benjaminburt8725 Yeah, that's a nice target too...

@stephenmoon6644 8 ай бұрын

Played a game in the 1980s called Silent Service, very similar to this. Still have it and the floppy discs for the Atari.

@Ayns.L14A 8 ай бұрын

Loved that game then there was 688 attack sub

@EggnogTheNog 8 ай бұрын

My first sub sim was Silent Service II on MS-DOS.

@thebrewingsailor9172 8 ай бұрын

@@Ayns.L14A Jane's 688i Hunter Killer.

@neptunenavalmods4420 8 ай бұрын

Used to play Sub Battle on an old 486SX .... talk about old lol

@scullystie4389 8 ай бұрын

I remember renting Silent Service for the NES and having no clue what I was doing lol

@jesuschristhomeslice9492 8 ай бұрын

This game was one of my favorites as a kid, the nostalgia is immense

@AL-commander-and-SCP-Scientist 8 ай бұрын

If a crewman from salmon ate salmon, would that be cannibalism

@papasmurf5925 8 ай бұрын

😳

@hantubelaung 8 ай бұрын

Don't worry, we as humans cannibalized each other back then as survival method or shock therapy

@chrisstopher2277 8 ай бұрын

Salmonism?

@-PanzerRabbit- 8 ай бұрын

Salmanila ?

@hans_pixel-me5mx 8 ай бұрын

What the hell man destroying commercial non-combatant ships it's called a war crime! What exact evidence did you have that they were doing anything other than fishing to give substance to their families?

@kristianfischer9814 8 ай бұрын

I still can't get over how well the Mk 14s have treated you.

@papasmurf5925 8 ай бұрын

Agree 💯. 😂

@timonsolus 8 ай бұрын

Maybe the boat's chief is making successful (but unauthorised!) modifications to his Mk 14's? Often, it's the low ranking petty officers who know how to make balky equipment work, but they can't ask for official permission to make the necessary modifications, because shore based senior officers behind their desks either refuse to consider it because the idea came from 'the lower decks', or get butthurt that their shore based teams didn't come up with the idea themselves.

@papasmurf5925 8 ай бұрын

@@timonsolus As a US Navy veteran, it's called the E-4 mafia!

@neptunenavalmods4420 8 ай бұрын

13:32 Poor Everett Edge!! I like how the game makes injured crewmen clutch their wounds .... nice touch.

@bulldogbryant5909 8 ай бұрын

Never gets old watching your videos

@forpointsix4.678 8 ай бұрын

2:40 quote from Taff "were still in friendly water, Pearl Harbor is right over there." Ya, because no one will ever attack Pearl Harbor. LoL

@LawrenceSeetoh 8 ай бұрын

Thank you Taff, that was a brilliant episode, talk about the epitome of manning the deck guns! wow

@gvii 8 ай бұрын

Well, the MK 10's were actually quite reliable. It was the MK 14 that ran too deep, circle ran, blew up too early due to the magnetic influence fuse, or refused to blow up at all. All of these problems together is what made for the roughly 76% failure rate. It also didn't help that the Navy's quartermaster at the time had a stake in those torpedoes since one of the components(I think the impact fuse, but not positive on that at the moment.) was under his patent. There's also the fact that this was at a time when the US government actually cared about budgets(I know, what a crazy concept to try to stick to your budget.). That ten thousand dollars per torpedo price tag made the Navy very hesitant to do much in the way of proper testing. So the few test launches they got was with a buoyant dummy warhead to make sure they could easily recover the torpedoes and get them back into service. Sometime after the dummy testing they changed over to a larger warhead that changed the hydrodynamics and created a low pressure zone right on the depth control port. That resulted in the torp running about 11 feet lower than the set depth. The MK14 was just a disaster all the way around and most of the major issues didn't get fixed until late into the war. I can't believe that I-201 class sub went toe to toe with you on the surface. Those things submerged are nearly as fast as your boat is on the surface. I really do wish they had a sim with playable Japanese subs, they had a number really interesting designs. Plus, their torpedoes were fast as heck and carried a huge payload.

@mozofoz 8 ай бұрын

sub v sub action in the pacific ... nice. And that empty port, full of surprises episode.

@chrisstopher2277 8 ай бұрын

5:11 I was waiting for that dude to respond back.

@SergeiMosin 8 ай бұрын

I wish they would've continued the Silent Hunter series with Japanese I series subs... the mechanic of being able to launch and recover seaplanes with them would be absolutely phenomenal.

@GrumpyGamerGuy 8 ай бұрын

oh my, never seen a sub on sub duel... I need to reinstall AGAIN to try to make this happen. I may have installed this game a few times in my history...... Any of the Silent Hunters really, classics.. Thanks for doing thing, gives me something to watch and enjoy.

@arthurcrego8297 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic mission, i have never in this game seen two subs sunk by another Promotions are in order

@colindouglas7769 8 ай бұрын

I seem to remember Taff sinking a British sub with a torpedo during a series he did either with Uboat or SH5, can't remember which one it was, but it definitely did happen.

@hawks1ish 8 ай бұрын

That was a sentaka die-fast class sub

@joeaustin4472 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic episode taff, the USS Salmon.. the name means nothing.. the submarine is still as lethal as all other US subs on the hunt. Close calls with Enemy aircraft buzzing around, just be grateful they don't carry bombs, mind you strafeing alone is carrying hazards in it's own right.. still.. USS Salmon shrugs it off no problem. Great job in sinking those sail boats, destroying pickets and crippling enemy food supplies at the same time.. Two with one stone as it we're. The war in the Pacific is going to get tougher and tougher as we go along so.. best brace ourselves, mind you torpedoes will improve at the same time so that's something that we can grateful for. Sinking enemy submarines, a sweet moment in the series, fantastic.. just fantastic.. keep it up mate, well done mate, victory and happy hunting mate 👏 👏 👍

@Andrew-315zz 8 ай бұрын

Huzzah! A new video!

@EggnogTheNog 8 ай бұрын

I’ve been re-reading “One of Our Submarines” by Edward Young, who was commander of HMS Storm, during WWII. He was based out of Trincomalee on Sri Lanka, so he was mostly patrolling a fair bit further west than than Taff is, but it’s a great example of what submarine warfare in the SE Asia Theatre was like IRL.

@fathead0078 8 ай бұрын

A up chat them zeros are a pain in the arse

@Mellotronaic 4 ай бұрын

A new Pacific sub game with a Japanese campaign would be very interesting

@ethanmcdowell9677 8 ай бұрын

You had enough renown to get an Air Search Radar and possibly a 40mm Bofors AA gun....

@Holydude 8 ай бұрын

love these silent hunter 4 vids you are doing. very good play by play on all you have been sinking. so far you haven't got a flat top i think? hopefully you can add that eventually

@joshuacaudillo3466 8 ай бұрын

Right admiring the recognition Manuel ey 🤣

@barbarossa1234 8 ай бұрын

I love the music.

@Bingo551 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the Sunday sub..lol

@RemusKingOfRome 8 ай бұрын

"dueling Subs" who would have thunk it ! ?? NOT ME! dive and put 2 torps in each was the order of the day .. what were ya thinking ?..

@markstott6689 8 ай бұрын

On your way home attack Rabaul. 😊

@anthonysmith3593 8 ай бұрын

The slammin salmon

@tacticalcalebgaming7264 8 ай бұрын

Dive during day time because it does help to not gave your position plus don’t mind those sailboats because that is like til end of war

@scottboyer8450 8 ай бұрын

To learn more about just how bad the Mk. 14 torpedo was read "Iron Men and Tin Fish: The Race to Build a Better Torpedo During World War II" - by Anthony Newpower. The faults with that torpedo cost the lives of many sailors and it took until 1943 before they started to get it sorted out, thanks to Adm. Lockwood. If you study the patrol reports of that time between 1943 and 1944, the successful attack and tonnage numbers skyrocket.

@neptunenavalmods4420 8 ай бұрын

I read about how the USS Tinosa fired almost all her Mk14's at a huge whale factory ship (19,500 tons) - nearly every one was a dud and it got away. Such a frustratingly bad weapon for the Americans....maybe the war would have ended earlier if it had worked properly

@nerd1000ify 8 ай бұрын

Early war German torpedoes were nearly as bad, the U-boats failed to sink many important Allied ships because of them. In fact it seems that it was only really the Japanese and the Brits who had their torpedoes in good order at the onset of hostilities.

@scottboyer8450 8 ай бұрын

@@nerd1000ify Yeah but the difference is, German high command held their ordinance division accountable and the issues were sorted out very quickly. I suppose getting shot or reassigned to the eastern front has a way of motivating people.

@timonsolus 8 ай бұрын

@@nerd1000ify : And the Italians. (Italian submarines performed very poorly in WW2, but the torpedoes weren't the reason why.)

@maxomat4319 8 ай бұрын

12:46 you definitely should get the air radar as soon as possible.

@knightvisiongoggles7934 8 ай бұрын

Ahhh.........the Jawa Sea!😂 If you know, you know! At this point, I'd be ready to fire my AA gunner and radarman. I'd also discipline my watch crew with PT and potato peeling while back at base for their R&R. And NO ICECREAM PRIVILEGES!!!😂😂😂

@peteraffm 8 ай бұрын

@32min ff shelling a U-boat. You need to send your artillerie team head to a training! He too often shot too far! He didn't even "fork in" the target.

@ZZCheetahZZ 7 ай бұрын

Great videos, I just love watching them. Maybe a noob question, but how can you walk inside the sub?

@MIKE-se8ye 8 ай бұрын

Good Stuff

@theberbster7179 8 ай бұрын

The default setting for air search radar is Off and the icon does does not light when swithced on so always needs to be activated on each new patrol, with this switched on you should have enough warning to crash dive before being attacked.

@jyralnadreth4442 8 ай бұрын

Just to put it out there Taff, there are 9000 ton Hospital Ships in the game 🤣 also 80,000 ton troopships for the British

@vipertwenty249 8 ай бұрын

So what casualties did you take?

@creatorsfreedom6734 8 ай бұрын

you might be able to install the mod - living quarter's for sh 4

@Nangleator22 8 ай бұрын

I liked this game until I tried to play it. Continuous air attacks. Impossible air attacks. I had Bettys jumping me within sight of Midway, just weeks after Pearl Harbor. I had big bombers attack while I was deep underwater. The bombers DOVE INTO THE OCEAN to get at me, and exploded after they reached my depth! Impossible to play this game.

@cmsxcb 8 ай бұрын

The Sentaka-Dai boats were not launched until 1944 and not operational until early 1945. Only 3 were completed and none were sunk before war's end. Not only that, but a single shell through the pressure hull would have been more than enough to destroy one. In these aspects, the game is historically and physically inaccurate.

@bigmac60 8 ай бұрын

That’s a first 😂

@Veloxyll 8 ай бұрын

The problem with fighting a submarine with guns is you can’t tell if they’re sinking or just diving

@colindouglas7769 8 ай бұрын

Did you not see the gaping holes in the hull of that second sub? Of course it was sinking!

@danhubert-hx4ss 8 ай бұрын

Hi Taff, link to a playlist of this campaign please.

@idv1328 8 ай бұрын

Really don’t understand the lookouts not spotting the inbound planes?

@colindouglas7769 8 ай бұрын

Erm, unless Skipper Taff has had them registered "blind", just for a laugh!

@robertsistrunk6631 8 ай бұрын

Apparently someone doesn't use the SD radar

@ijnfleetadmiral 6 ай бұрын

37:47 - "I don't like this at all" - Well, whose fault was it for making a needlessly STUPID decision to engage enemy submarines with your deck gun when you could've just as easily submerged and blasted them to smithereens with torpedoes without endangering your crew? Only have yourself to blame for that one! And again, the game puts ships that were YEARS from entering service in the game early. The Type C3 I can possibly excuse, as - despite the first boat of the C3 Type not entering service until late December 1943 - the earlier Type C1s were commissioned starting in late March 1940. The Sen Taka boat, on the other hand, that's absolute BS. The first of them weren't commissioned until February 1945, and they never left Japanese waters!

@Galantus1964 8 ай бұрын

The amount of shells needed to sink both the small vessels and the subs is just stupid...

@Daras89 8 ай бұрын

Do you play SH5?

@Lowkeh 8 ай бұрын

Indeed he does. Dieter (crew member) has kinda become the star/meme of this channel with his _"Maan the deck gaans!!",_ incessant shuffling/broom sweeping sounds while trying to listen to the hydrophone, inopportunely yelling straight into the ear of the captain 2 inches away, and of course, _"I hear loud noises!"_

@andrewbranch4075 8 ай бұрын

With those 2 subs, why didn't you just submurge and take them by stealth. You could have calculated and sent a spread and just slipped away.🤨🤔😯😕??!!!!