Uboat | U-552 | Cruising down to the Southern Routes

Hello and welcome to a new video on Uboat. In this video, we get command of our first uboat designated U-552 as we take her on a new mission to sink enemy shipping in what is known as the Happy Times
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UBOAT
UBOAT is a simulator of a submarine from WWII era, yet different than all you have seen so far. It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of German sailors. The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any time.
In UBOAT you control the crew in order to control the boat. You look after their physical and mental health, because if the sailors are hungry, tired and their spirit is low, there’s no chance of winning even a skirmish.
Survival
The extensive damage system is a foundation of the game's survival elements. Unprecedented situations are bound to happen as the effect of received damage, testing player's creativity and ability to stay calm. You can try to save the whole crew or leave someone behind, to save the others.
While your ship travels through the open seas, you will often find yourself being on your own. Use your management skills to spend resources taken on the trip optimally and in special cases try to recover them on the sea, by asking your allies for the help... or by looting wreckages of enemy ships.
Disable unnecessary devices, to keep your accumulators running for longer.
Tell your crew to stay in their bunks to preserve oxygen.
If crew's morale is low - play with them a session of Skat or play music from nearby radio stations, to fortify their hearts.
Kriegsmarine career
During the playthrough you will receive assignments from the Kriegsmarine headquarters. They are never linear and you may receive additional orders during them or face unexpected problems.
Brave completion of assignments from the headquarters is rewarded with additional budget for the unit under your command and with acceptance of your growing reputation as an u-boat's skipper. You will need that, to upgrade your ship and keep up with enemy's technological advances.
Upgrade your boat for the rewarded funds.
Receive additional permissions for the reputation points.
Buy new equipment - new torpedo types, sonar decoys, CO2 absorbers and much more.
Send your officers on special tasks in the headquarters to, among other things, speed up a research of new technologies.
Accurate simulation
Game's simulation elements are very realistic, but that never comes at a cost of gameplay quality. Despite extensive simulation elements, UBOAT can be played like a regular game and complex matters can be learned later to become a better skipper for the commanded unit.
Even small things like the influence of ballast in each compartment on the ship's trim (tilt) or Earth's curvature are faithfully reproduced in the game.
Perfection can be achieved in many ways. Prove your management skills and swiftly assign work to your officers to speed things up. If, on the other hand, you think that if something needs to be done, it's better to do that on your own - sit behind the periscope, hydrophone or 88 mm deck gun and take matters in your own hands!
Music:
Music by:
Decline - Kevin MacLeod.
Shamanistic - Kevin Macleod - Filmmusic
Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license: creativecommons.... Download link: incompetech.co...
Shamanistic - Kevin Macleod - Filmmusic

[@vergofmadness3527]

I can't believe no one's mentioned this yet: HMS Dorsetshire was the ship that delivered the killing blow to the Bismarck. U-552 has avenged the Bismarck. Now if THAT doesn't earn the crew a MUCH-deserved vacation, I don't know what will!!

[@johnsullivan6843]

The New Year is off to a good start Captain! That sure was some combustible tea. 🤔

[@jameslanning8405]

Maybe refresh the crew in the front loading torpedos. It might speed up the process...

[@raleighthomas3079]

Great episode Taff! Happy Times indeed! Made my afternoon, thanks!

[@arthurcrego8297]

Lovly sinkings Taft

[@Fitch93]

18:43 dude casually swabbing the deck while she goes down.

[@craigwoodward7638]

For clarity cruisers were designated light or heavy based on the size of their guns rather than displacement. (Nice and confusing!) Generally 6 inch guns=light 8 inch=heavy. Most "light" cruisers built during the war displaced more than the counties.

[@richardvaldes3959]

That cruiser had nearly 1000 men on board😅

[@joeaustin4472]

Great episode taff, looks like the new hunting grounds will provide you with a bounty of Great victories to enjoy. Another Warship added to your tally along with more merchants, if this was real you'd be a tonnage king by now.. or at least close to it. Excellent episode and series, keep it up mate.

[@LawrenceSeetoh]

What a nice sortie, thank you Taff. Fun episode

[@Kobaneko2005]

They're really getting their millage outta the name "A B Hammond".

[@justbrowsing8482]

Love this series so much I’ve just bought the game 😊

[@Lowlander-ci7is]

Yeah me as well, it's on sale for £9.99 atm

[@Kobaneko2005]

Beware, the tutorial is garbage.

[@honkvollpfosten]

First comment! I'm looking very forward to this new episode.

[@bigmac60]

Great episode Taff. Thanks

[@truesurvivor5767]

Really enjoying this series!

[@jameslanning8405]

Okay! Medical supplies and other things sunk is acceptable. But TEA! Yiou had to sink a boat load of tea!!? You bastage!!

[@ivepeters]

👍

[@CATASTEROID934]

Making the world's biggest cuppa for the crabs and eels to enjoy

[@wot779]

Loved this episode! :)

[@colindouglas7769]

HMS Dorsetshire had a main armament of eight 8-inch guns, Taff, so she was a heavy cruiser.

[@markwaynewindle5848]

Calculations have been done in regards to the Dorsetshire's typical full load displacement of 13,640 tons. Ships sunk: 70 Tonnage sunk: 486,464

[@markwaynewindle5848]

But ironically, the Dorsetshire, in the real world, was sunk in April of 1942 by the Japanese, so U-552 beat the Imperial Japanese Air Force to her.

[@colindouglas7769]

@@markwaynewindle5848 I believe it was a couple of torpedoes from the Dorsetshire that also delivered the coup-de-grace to Bismarck on 27th May 1941, so a bit of revenge achieved by U-552!

[@Cybernaut76]

What??? No way the escorts could possibly be THAT clueless about where you must approximately be in SH3 or IRL 80 years ago...

[@ethanmcdowell9677]

It's a shame that the game parameters doesn't take into account military tonnage sunk. You'd probably be touching 500k tons by now.

[@altfyren432]

I find that i only need 1 torp to sink even the boggest cargo ships. Just do magneto det and 5.5 to 6.5 meter and they sink like a stone.

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

If you keep cleaning up RN capital ships, maybe the surface units of the KM can have some fun.

[@DietrichMikowski]

What are the two guys doing, who sit next to each other, both constanty turning large wheels in alternate directions??

[@Shovel328]

I keep wondering, do ships actually sink that fast after a torpedo hit? I always thought they would take atleast 10 minutes to fully go under

[@chrissobiech2677]

As the Game ist now you get better results with sinking Ships If you use contact fuse with deep run, half Meter higher as ship deep, as with magnetic fuse below the ship. But it has to run deep.

[@soupwizard]

46:36 Wait a minute, the Baxter was exporting tea from England to Sierra Leone? Wouldn't that actually be the other way around in real life?

[@rodjefdam]

Question, how is this game nowadays, i played it long ago and it was quite bugy and lacking features, how it is right now?

[@user-jr2vc7wn1w]

Question how do you bring up the actual targeting computer in the conning tower? Every time I do a torpedo attack I don't seem to have that option?

[@davidwilliams1097]

There is a mod for the TDC.

[@user-jr2vc7wn1w]

@@davidwilliams1097 thank you

[@xe2594]

what can do you do with money in the game?

[@zach-p120]

What is the music at the start of the video?

[@barbarossa1234]

What a horrible waste war is.

[@lknanml]

LMAO.. It's been all quiet tones as if they could hear you talking then COME ON TUBE FOUR WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Back to the hush tones......... LOL

[@fatmike5038]

I just saw for the first time they are doing a nuclear submarine version