War on the Sea - Dutch East Indies Campaign || Ep.20 - Fortress Java

[@Wolfpack345]

Reuplaoded due to an editing error. Sorry about that!

[@benhale7787]

What was the error as i watched the whole thing. Also why the music for the bombing run? You are one of the best surface tacticians I watch on youtube,a pleasure to watch. keep up the great content.

[@TGirl_Kelley]

lol I was watching it at work and had to leave and when I couldn't find it here at home I thought I was going insane. . . 😂

[@stephenfarthing3819]

Don't worry about it! I am looking forward to seeing this part.

[@davidspencer8373]

Like video

[@Shinzon23]

I was wondering what was going on... I was writing a comment and it kept saying this is not allowed so a quick refresh and saw the video went private and I was like "what"

[@CommonSwindler]

I think you might be selecting the “bomb the water right beside the ship” option.

[@AtomickPhoenix]

If so then those are some veteran bombardiers on those aircraft!

[@jeffreyestahl]

I've noticed that in the mod, level bombing seems to release early pretty regularly. I think the lead percentage for bombing setting in options is too high. (I'd have to look it up again to know for certain) Wolf's had a lot more luck when bombing from a leading vector than a trailing vector, given current settings.

[@TheSquidPro]

It is said that bombing in WWII was quite dismal in it's success rate compared to straight up Kamikaze'ing targets.

[@papasmurfette007]

@@TheSquidPro Reading some honest accounts of crews, many were so scared of the flak that they just dropped short or wide and got the hell out of there. Far from everybody was a crazy hero (and no criticism is intended at all)...

[@dylandarnell3657]

@@TheSquidPro Kamikaze pilots also had a very poor hit rate. Mainly because their training was so bare-bones they didn't know how to maneuver in a dive.

[@andrewcarter1599]

I’m not sure how this happened, but these episode drops are a highlight of my week

[@SCP-4999]

I also really look forward to them to the point they’re a weekly highlight!

[@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz]

I’m sorry.

[@MegaDobieDog]

Oh it's pretty simple. They're that good.

[@matthews8238]

I tend to forget about them until I see them come out, then I’m strangely excited

[@jefferynelson]

it happened to me too

[@gunnervine]

i haven't confirmed this but my experience is that if you change speed during an attack run the planes dont recalculate the drop time and that's why all your bombs were short. you have to hit the attack button again after changing speed to recalculate it.

[@danhaas9730]

Those magazine explosions really highlight the value of light cruisers. Those 5.9" and 6" guns were designed to blow big holes in DDs, and they really made the difference in this battle.

[@ertanax2382]

Wolfpack, if you adjust your speed after starting an attack run without hitting 'attack' again, the Bombers will drop according to their old Bombsight information. That's why your bombers are consistently missing.

[@jeffreyestahl]

Don't forget that once a target is selected, you can press the f key to swing your view around to point at it. Makes things a lot easier when in binocular/periscope mode. It's easier to unstick friendly ships if you deselect collision avoidance. They stay stuck because they're both trying to 'avoid' a collision which invariably involves trying to dodge in the same direction. Also, you can select an entire air squadron by clicking the color flag on the leader. Makes handling larger formations a bit easier.

[@saundersroe656]

I dont know if he controlled their rudders himself but that way the ships were pushing their stern into each other.. Would have helped to straighten the rudder out once they slightly face away from each other. When you drive backwards with your car next to a wall and want to steer away from it without ramming, you dont fully turn your steeringwheel either

[@jeffreyestahl]

@@saundersroe656 He kept trying to control their rudders. The problem with the AI autoavoidance is that no matter what you try to do, the AI is going to do what it thinks it needs to do. That's why I said, for those 2 ships, it would have been easier to turn off collision avoidance. E.g. I always turn off avoidance during ASW operations, especially under adverse sea/weather conditions. The best way to do ASW is to use at least 2 DDs: 1 to spot and keep tabs on the sub, and 1 to depth charge. This is because once your attacking DD is over the sub, it'll fall into the DD's blind spot (i.e. baffles), which makes it a lot harder to actually kill the sub and causes you to use a lot more depth charges than you otherwise would. In adverse conditions, your subs will be very close to one another (with about 300 yds/270m) You'll spend more time trying to keep the DDs in line (often losing the sub's position) than hunting the sub. BTW, I'm not criticizing Wolf's gameplay. I'm just a person who's been reverse engineering algorithms for 40 years, so I find a bit of fun in it.

[@AtomickPhoenix]

One Hudson decides to give the other a hug Wolfpack: *The immersion* Just loved that bit, thought it was funny in the vid

[@chrissbasement169]

6:31 and that kids is how light cruisers are made

[@meilinchan7314]

Not possible, since we known both of them were female :P

[@OtherWorldExplorers]

I really like these long formats. Allows me to relax and enjoy my dinner.

[@restestsest1929]

Oh boy, I can't believe I'm doing this. Good job mate, you just made me inclined to write a whole alternate history naval battle based on this series. Welp, here goes nothing.

[@kamitorrorga4568]

Good luck!

[@juanjo55lol]

Do keep us updated!

[@ijnfleetadmiral]

If you need any help with Japanese officers (ship commanders, admirals, etc.), say so. I'll be glad to help out.

[@TheHeavenlyGoddess]

Incredible, although I am beginning to doubt the prowess of your pilots.. the formations I've found to be hit or miss, man that was so nail biting! Incredible series Wolfpack

[@razorback20]

Yeah, planes used to be more proficient back in the days. Not sure if it comes from the game's latest updates, but these dudes would have missed a whale stuck in a corridor. Pathetic and frustrating. 😑

[@brairag5744]

The issue is that he's hitting to attack, then adjusting speed. And unless you hit to attack the target again, to adjust the measures, then the attack will release at the distance appropriate for the old speed and not the new speed.

[@Cod3nameHurricane]

This guy is a little underated, how is there less than a million subscribers for an amazing youtuber

[@meilinchan7314]

The rest are just several shades of Nasim Aghdam.

[@hansm_0161]

welp if I got to experience the same great intro again then you shall receive double the praise! Greatest, most cinematic intro ever that you've ever pulled off! Absolute magnificent and I'm sure it's going to keep getting even greater as time goes on. Great editing, looking forward for more! Keep up the great work:D

[@TheMouseMasterYT]

38:07 That's a great action shot of a destroyer passing by with it's stern so high I don't think it's screws are in the water. Hydrofoiling maybe?

[@dylandarnell3657]

What I'm getting from 6:15: Electra & Sumatra sneaking off to kiss in the back of the bus. Tromp is the lazy kid who keeps lagging behind.

[@Boslandschap1]

The AI sure doesn't pull his punches, the challenge is real. These episodes are outright riveting.

[@patrickhamilton9242]

That was pretty cheap when he left the battle while still getting bracketed. That absolutely should have been an entire task force lost. It seemed cheap.

[@Alpha_627]

That Minekaze 19 minutes in after all his comrades are sinking: *chuckles* I’m in danger

[@parliamentlite]

This is undeniably my favorite current ngaming series on KZbin and I love it when these videos pop up. This may be the best gaming series I've ever watched on here. Easily top 3. I find myself hanging on every action while I watch the videos and wondering what will happen next during random times of the day when I'm not. Thanks for the awesome work.

[@jayshockin2305]

Was that a kitty I heard wanting to be apart of the battle?! 9:30 and 9:40

[@Wolfpack345]

Unfortanutly not, it is just the soundtrack :(

[@jacobdearancibia9436]

An amazing episode by the best youtuber !

[@Wolfpack345]

Thanks!

[@douglasmodesto168]

23:52 "have been quite a feeeeeeeewwwww" You can feel the OOF in that line

[@bronzerepublic3995]

This is my most anticipated episode series. Also, I am glad the music level is fixed from the original video.

[@jackfredricks6223]

The music, while cinematic, *was* a bit too loud, nice stealth fix. 😉 Granted the choice and timing of the music with the bombs falling short was spot on! 😃 The AI is *terrible* at making bombing runs for the player. When you press the attack button, either the flight leader (if making a formation attack) or the whole flight (if attacking individually) all pick a spot on or near the target and attack that spot. But you can *tell* when they are off and it is super frustrating. If you insist on not bombing with manual control, my suggestion is to double check their attack run. Use the chase camera (don't turn with the mouse when doing this!) and the up and down arrow keys to check their ingress vector. If you line up the formation astern and press attack, if they shift left or right, *they are going to miss!* You can press attack again and they will pick a new "spot" to hit. Just make sure it looks good from the chase camera view (Hint: the pip that marks your compass heading makes a great bomb sight with chase camera. Just use the up and down arrow keys to bring it to the correct angle) Once you are happy with the approach vector, then you can allow the AI to pick when to drop. Another time saving suggestion I can give you (since you don't pause when controlling hundreds of men) is to select the entire flight by clicking the flight leader on the color identifier on the left side. That selects the whole flight with the primary unit being the actual one you click. That makes changing formation a lot easier! (down to two clicks once the formation is set). Additionally, you can change some settings in your files to make it so that the default number and formation per flight is what you like (which appears to be four in diamond formation). This is per aircraft type. I would just say that doing this is a huge time saver and is basically saying that you are changing the SOP for that theater. Loved the much improved damage control you are doing compared to early in this series! Look at how much it is saving you with those ships that were looking quite rough, vs how they ended the engagement. Well done. Thank you for the entertaining series. 👍

[@jamesmacnamara8174]

Absolutely loving this series! Getting well and truly treated with the regularity of episode drops.

[@stephenfarthing3819]

Possibly Perth's first few full salvos probably clobbered the Myoko in the boilers or engine room! She was then reduced to 7 knots. Your luck there - wasn't too bad.

[@heatherhoward4197]

Phone broke been following for years though since the wolfpack sub series like 4 years ago I was hooked solid work. On my mothers phone to bring these since I totally forgot to to check your chanMel lately since its been a crazy and bad year but glad I found u in my suggestions and if was like noOo I forgot and now i have this whole series to binge .

[@SDJW2016]

You should give O-19 a Friend.

[@Vatsyayana87]

Im not sure if its just by preference, but so you know, if you Shift Click it will select all vehicles between the first selected and the shift clicked one. So if you select the first plane and shift click the tenth it will select all 10 at once.

[@icarus372]

Best series by far

[@Jawanaka]

That tired fatherly “what is going on back here” when the ships collide really make this episode

[@devrossik]

The large number of magazine explosions wasn't just luck. The developers of the ABDACOM mod significantly increased the percentage of both secondary and magazine explosions. Remember, that cuts both ways.

[@quigonfishin]

War on the sea has gotta be my favorite series by you yet, you deserve way more attention brother. Can’t wait for the next one.

[@eduardoanzolch6078]

"The enemy Heavy cruiser Takao was a fool,he sacrifice himself Rather than Leading his Ships to a Dignifing Defeat!"

[@tylerjerabek5204]

This is quickly becoming my favorite series which given the quality of SH, is saying something The Pacific mod looks challenging, maybe after the current SH Med…

[@sangay9361]

I'm absolutely loving this!! I'm a big fan of all your war on the sea videos

[@jbeckley6849]

Wolfpack showered with chef kisses this episode.

[@DanielAngenendtOAO]

Thanks for exciting episode i really enjoyed it. ;-)

[@MercuryKnight5]

Good to see the Houston again, and the Marblehead! US Asiatic Fleet represent!

[@SukacitaYeremia]

Sumatra goes: "That's for Palembang you Yamamoto bootlickers!"

[@phoenixcompanygaming9336]

buh-tey-vee-uh Batavia :) Sorry Wolf its been bothering me all Campaign :)

[@stephenfarthing3819]

I'm very much looking forward to your next part. And three ships joining Battlegroup Basilisk.

[@polaris6644]

I've seen in your gameplay once or twice that you'll have issues with bomber accuracy, or torpedo bombers putting fish in too early/late. In all my experience it seems like the game throws a hissy fit if you try an attack run with a speed different from the starting aircraft speed, so make sure for whatever aircraft you're using you return it to it's original speed before commencing attack

[@doubleskulls]

One other thing most of the torpedo bombers you have available (Fokkers and Catalinas) are big slow beasts. If you've crippled a ship you can use them for the coup de grace but they will take losses. Even against stationary targets at maximum range (~1700m) they are so slow they'll get shot down before making an escape. Catalinas (from Denpasar) are marginally better than the Fokkers. Generally I just use both for level bombing from altitude, and only torpedoes in extremis.

[@PhoenixT70]

I feel like we're getting a lesson on why dive bombing, while suicidal, racked up the kills in World War II.

[@mato5758]

Good video as always. You mention that Tromp is too slow, and you`ll transfer her out. When I build my ship formations, I put them in order of fastest to slowest...for example, You wouldn`t have Warspite or Adelaide leading the formation, as every ship would be limited to their top speed of 25 knots. Having said that, my fastest ships at front of formation would have the more number of guns, to chase and hit the enemy ships and slow them for my slower ships to start hitting them....example, my faster front ships would have 2 or 4 forward guns, rather than 1 or 2 each. Weight of fire is important early, to swamp the enemy. Something I`ve noticed previously, Wolfy has O class submarine....My Java version doesn`t, and Wolfy`s minimum distance between planes is 50m, mine is 25. Is there a more modern update somewhere?

[@schuttrostig5729]

You are slowly getting there. thats an insanely hard campaign.

[@evanbondonno5209]

Hey I have a tip for bombing, maybe why your bombs missed: in my experience attack speed helps determine aim. The most clear results come from torpedo bombers: if you attack at full speed you will over-lead the target; too slow and you lag behind. I think by slowing down your bomber formation they dropped early, missing short. Now I'm not 100% on this theory but I've certainly had some consistent experiences in my gameplay.

[@stephenfarthing3819]

I can imagine the colourful language between the Dutch Cruiser and the Destroyer Captains. Particularly ripe terms - possible from the Destroyer Captain if an Australian! Anything like Captain Griffin or Captain Beaumont. Those two would be difficult enough. ! The Destroyer Captain if an Australian, would be bad enough!

[@B61Mod12]

04:15 Lol your ships are already way more than 100m apart...

[@Shinzon23]

Hey wolf you know that you can put up a targeting reticule for where the bombs will land, and completely manual aim? Was watching another guy playing this mod and he was getting reliable hits at 5000 feet manually aiming and dropping

[@berserkerpride]

In a previous series he used that a lot, but it always seemed way too easy. The enemy AI doesn't try to make evasive maneuvers at all.

[@Shinzon23]

​​@Berserker But isn't the entire thing about this mod that you're eventually just going to drown in a wave of Japanese warships though? Doesn't really matter if it's a bit cheaty if no matter what the enemy will win

[@berserkerpride]

@@Shinzon23 Well the enemy does have finite limits on warship types. So eventually they run out of heavy cruisers, cruisers, and I think even destroyers after a long time. Yeah the enemy is spammy, but even so his fleet keeps getting larger.

[@YorT-G]

Some impressive surface engagement action, nice work 👍

[@ningen1980]

For a hot second my hibernating stoner side heard "good solid bong hit".

[@billycaufield1135]

Between the torpedo dodging and the missed bombs this cpu is tenacious

[@darklordojeda]

It cheats just like every other RTS game.

[@Abubble1234]

Flyboys are incompetent, surface engagements are incredibly costly. Time to bust out the champ again. O-19 going to do what the rest of her branch can't!

[@pilotedavion6716]

You should keep your plane turning around the ennemy formation, this should help to build your solution, and sometime distract the secondary

[@adamtruong1759]

37:48 My gosh, it just ran out of fuel, that is so sad to watch!

[@BellaZuikaku4785]

Hey Wolfpack345! Is there a War on the Sea Mod for the battle of the Atlantic? I would love to see the Hood Vs Bismarck, Sharnhorst vs Duke of York etc

[@magnum6763]

there isn't, but theres mods that add those ships. specifically in the discord theres the Kreigsmarine ships mod and the Royal Navy shipmod. Just follow the install directions and youll be good (the mods are combined about 5x larger than the game itself btw)

[@DL541]

Another great episode

[@SukacitaYeremia]

Wonder if we'll ever get Task Force Viper, Keelback, or Krait at one point...

[@papasmurfette007]

Krait? I can't see how that would fit within the game play for this game. However, an RPG/RTS mix type game of such operations would be brilliant!...

[@SukacitaYeremia]

@@papasmurfette007 It's a type of common snake in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. The most common species here have D-Day invasion stripes for camouflage

[@papasmurfette007]

@@SukacitaYeremia I was referring to the boat used by Australian & British special forces in Operation Jaywick against Japanese shipping in occupied Singapore. I thought that's what you were referring to as well. It wouldn't fit into an operational scale wargame like War on the Sea, but would be excellent subject matter for a role-playing strategy type game...

[@mathewkelly9968]

Australian ships getting used as human shields by our "allies" is historically accurate

[@darkfox2076]

Great series so far. The Dutch East Indies seems alot tougher campaign.

[@alexmonk]

Please, add this video to the playlist.

[@stephenfarthing3819]

Perth packs 6 inch guns. Just heavy enough to do some serious damage to the Myoko heavy cruiser.

[@amogussus8138]

If you stay in the battle afterwards the crew of the ships can repair all damage except blacked out ompartnments!

[@mysteriesaboutlife4986]

The fires/flooding can also get worse so its 50/50

[@stephenfarthing3819]

Bumpsie daisy! It's enough to make you weep !

[@Saberjet1950]

when doing high alt bomb runs you should only be bombing front to back or back to front, coming from the sides should only be done with skip bombing or torpedo bombing.

[@akarinnnnnn]

I think it's safe to say at this point that this campaign has single handedly cost Japan the war just by the sheer amount of cruisers and destroyers they've lost.

[@diegokevin3824]

those were some brave fokkers (pun intended)

[@terryhsiao1745]

love it all the misses from bombing..LOL

[@Greg5711999]

Yay! Go Wolfpack!

[@buu_huu_01]

The Video is back online, whuuu

[@jesseterrell2109]

And that’s how baby ships are made.

[@bjorntrollgesicht1144]

Hey, I've had one beer to resolute IJN removal, now I get to have two. Cheers! Edit: remember to like this one too!

[@arthurcrego8297]

Another great one.

[@BorisstalmN]

Fortress britan of the indies

[@necrontyr5258]

horary it's back! was watching the original upload (bad audio mix - music too loud I think) when it got yanked and made unavailable.

[@Bacardibatman]

Iv'e got massive deja vu feeling, just the matrix changing something right?

[@gregjohnson4193]

Thanks again

[@markstott6689]

It feels like Bombing accuracy has gone from one extreme to another. It seems virtually impossible to land direct hits anymore. Or am just imagining it?

[@conservativedemocracyenjoyer]

Level Bombing is historically the worst way to attack ships.

[@fhlostonparaphrase]

@@conservativedemocracyenjoyer Yup, B-17s at Midway springs to mind...

[@stephenfarthing3819]

Perth and Jupiter took damage - And this is going to force these ships to dodge either left or right.. By the look of it. You are going to sink the Myoko class heavy cruiser.

[@fredschildkamp7256]

Would love to see you go head to head with something other than the AI. Love the videos you are putting out.

[@luukvst1032]

ANOTHER VIDEO HOLY MOLY

[@Lowkeh]

I miss the old Wolfpack345. The REAL OG Wolfpack345 I knew woulda been blastin' Silent Hunter battle music turned up to eleven at around the 3-minute mark. This is why I'm moving on to different pastures-to a way better, humble little youtuber by the name of Wolfpack678. #MakeWolfpack345GreatAgain

[@KarolGrom92]

Another great video. Any chance youll bring back silent hunter?

[@Kallermatsch37]

Hello there, it seems episodes 20 and 21 are missing in the Playlist for this campaign.

[@jondough76]

5:14 You'd love a good solid bong hit? I'll be the first put my vote in for a cannabis-infused live stream..

[@nealboswell8786]

Enjoyed.

[@ericvogt7123]

"Please and thank you"

[@JeovahLovesYou]

I don't know how those planes missed man, they literally had the best scenario to not miss! Sucks that the AI planes are awful lol

[@fhlostonparaphrase]

To those who have actually played this mod (for a bit), is worth losing 14 planes for 1 heavy cruiser? Essentially, can the planes be replaced (in due order)? Realistically, I would guess not, but game mechanics isn't necessarily that...

[@doubleskulls]

In general, not at all. In this mod, at balanced difficulty each plane is 1 eng, 1 fuel and 10 supplies to replace. You get 60 eng & fuel, and 600 supplies per week. Resources are very tight as your ports/airfields consume about 45 fuel/eng per week. So in effect that's basically all the spare fuel/eng for a whole week. 2 CPs is about 5~10% of your weekly CP gain. Unless you've got a specific threat you need to deal with (e.g. having your task force sunk if you don't intervene) then its not worth losing planes to sink ships.

[@fhlostonparaphrase]

@@doubleskulls Thanks. He seems very concerned about having his ports shelled by those cruisers, which I sort of get, but the deployment of air assets seems...foolhardy at times. But I don't know, I'm watching this series because I can't justifying putting the amount of time needed into the game myself and because I really like alt-history/underdog scenarios :)

[@7tp96]

Hmmmm, dejavu

[@Wolfpack345]

:p

[@dylandarnell3657]

I HAVE BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE

[@robertbakedalaskanfitzhugh3016]

First video i look for when i log in. Also play the game. hey wolf try some angled attacks with echelon right and left. 45-90 best angle in my opinion dive and skip bombing are awsome.

[@TheMicJoe]

How did that 5th destroyer sink?

[@mickeyd.6467]

Ugh frustration abound. Damn flyboys can't hit the side of a barn if they were 5 ft. from it.

[@Concernedvoter914]

Karma Sumatra Electra action

[@brianmcdonald5009]

Can you get Houston back to Australia for repairs and the ship's that are wounded.

[@snigie1]

Maybe target only a few targets at a time to get guns underwater vs spread damage.

[@guyrosinbaum7745]

I was wondering I was almost done when it went away

[@darklordojeda]

The Japanese ships are stupidly strong and the fact that the guns will be facing straight into the water but still landing hits at long range is just ridiculous. That's why I refuse to play RTS games. The AI is always ridiculously accurate and does some impossible things. Like shooting down every single plane you send at them and taking 6 torpedoes then just steam on as if nothing happened. Love this series.

[@christophero55]

At this point Japanese command has to be deeply concerned. They are absolutely BLEEDING tonnage. How many ships sunk in just the past two weeks? (in game)