War on the Sea || IJN Campaign || Ep.17 - Airstrikes With a Dash of ASW

[@cvonta]

Man i really love the way you add a story to otherwise "dry" simulators, it really adds up to the entertainment value of it all and something I bet we all do when we start a new campaign in sims.

[@Wolfpack345]

I am glad you like it! I play a lot of RPGs so I am just combining the best of both worlds :) Glad there is an audience for it.

[@themodernwarfarehistorian825]

Wolf: "please be a dud, please be a dud" (Mark 14 is a dud) Wolf: "Yeah, love the mark 14" Mark 14: "Yesss someone loves me!" Sub captain: "bruh"

[@Nightcrawlerfive]

Something Wolfpack never said when he was playing SH4.

[@inhibitedhat5959]

lol

[@themodernwarfarehistorian825]

@@Nightcrawlerfive True hahaha

[@Azivegu]

The Mk.14 was just criminally bad

[@mewXD-mn6ec]

Ahahahaah xD

[@SporksINTL]

Americans:Should we change our tactics the japanese are way better. American Navy:No spam destroyers and cruisers we will win eventually.

[@afhamzaki2588]

Well the USN does have a point. For every valuable IJN pilots lost, the Americans can pump out more men, ships and aircrafts.

[@austinduong-van6071]

I guess the Americans watched too much anime and take bushido way too seriously now.

[@JustPeasant]

American 1: It is as our top military brass is compose of some really dumb machine with an intellect of a cockroach! American 2: That is beyond absurd. You're delusional! They know what they're doing...

[@austinduong-van6071]

@Jack the Gestapo unironically not the most inefficient way of winning a war quickly

[@lordjor96]

So basicly, what would happen if both sides swap tactics

[@Paroxsym-OX]

I was just wondering what to watch while I eat lunch. Perfect timing, Wolfpack.

[@srihartini1715]

SAME LMAOOOO

[@acer8123]

Nothing like a good coffee and asw in the morning

[@Perktube1]

Wolf: I love mark 14's. SH4: You never told ME that!

[@ultrawing5637]

Im glad I'm seeing more people atleast mention sh4 people only talk about 3 and 5 i grew up on 4 and still love it, i wish more people did videos on it

[@_R-R]

@@ultrawing5637 I don't play any of these games, but the ones I watch are SH3 and SH4. If I had my own PC, some games I would install would be WOTS, CW, and SH4.

[@MilitaryHistoryVisualized]

At 18:03 at the top behind the other ship, there is the "rest of the spread" or more likely another spread from a different sub. Not sure if this will come up later.

[@dutch1641]

Seems like its just large spread, maybe launched front first then stern

[@Wolfpack345]

Wow great catch! That has to be a spread from another sub. I got rather lucky with that one it would seem!

[@saltycoffee8106]

Ah, my daily dose of naval warfare

[@_R-R]

DDOI becomes DDONW.

[@etywrs4thur]

Poor Suzutsuki, has awful luck eating submarine torpedoes, all she can do here is thank BuOrd for the Mk. 14

[@Wolfpack345]

Haha indeed!

[@Gigi-ik3br]

I remember when we were talking about 5,000 followers and now you are at the verge of 60,000 followers. This is a terrific achievement and well deserved. I do so enjoy taking a break and watching one of your adventures. It would be nice if you could play Tortuga with him as the Americans and you as the Japanese.

[@Azivegu]

Multiplayer on this game would be amazing, but it may be to late to implement it. That is not an easy thing to achieve after the fact.

[@adamtruong1759]

And THG will command the Commonwealth forces.

[@papasmurfette007]

@@adamtruong1759 I think you mean THG will SINK the Commonwealth forces ;)...

[@adamtruong1759]

@@papasmurfette007 Nope. Lead them.

[@Wolfpack345]

Thanks for the kind words Gizmos! Thanks for sticking around too :) A multiplayer game would be quite fun for sure!

[@JessWLStuart]

Perhaps keeping the Cruiser's Jake closer to the carrier groups path would catch the subs before they catch you! LOL

[@togamid]

Well both of the attacs were during the night, so aircraft weren't available

[@IrishAmerican17]

@@togamid Actually, if you launch right before 1700, they are. Japanese had very good night attacks by floatplanes as well as bombers.

[@FerrowTheFox]

6:00 Suzutsuki channelling her inner Shigure it seems! Blessed be the Mk14 xD

[@adamtruong1759]

I went: Dang it! When it bounced.

[@Roddy229]

17:23 Good thing that you sent Shokaku out early, as the sub looked like it was chasing her

[@adamtruong1759]

A submarine as no hope of catching a 34 knot fast carrier.

[@bluestorm3628]

American merchant Salior: Oh no it’s a sideways bomb drop, it’s a kill drop. 💥 🔥🔥 Japanese pilot: 😎Like a Boss!

[@Wolfpack345]

They were just showing off!

[@drinci]

Just sunk the Yorktown with a sub! I encountered them 4 times but every time my torpedoes hit it cruiser's next to the carrier but once I encountered for 5th time the cruiser slowed down because I had already hit it 3 times and it opened up a gap to the carrier and then I fire 5 torpedoes into it and it sank! 90 command points for sinking a carrier, now I can buy a second carrier taskforce.

[@swordmonkey6635]

It's so strange to see the IJN starving the Allied troops on land by sinking transports at will because it was the exact opposite in reality: the Japanese lost tons and tons of cargo, supplies and troops on the way to Guadalcanal trying to reinforce their forces there. Cool alternate history stuff here.

[@TGoat5]

If you place an aircraft movement waypoint so that they would overfly their targets and keep going, and then place the attack order, maybe they would stop trying to turn back over the ships. It seems like theyre trying to return to the last waypoint after they finish their attack run.

[@Vipre-]

I thought the same but rewatching episodes where he's done that it doesn't work. They look to return to their last position where the attack order was given, this includes two groups with the same waypoint returning to two different ones. The devs need to fix that and have the planes continue on whatever course they are on when they drop their bombs.

[@XBlaster456]

@@Vipre- The Kates do that when their torpedoes are dropped, but why Vals and Zeroes dont is a mistery

[@cragnamorra]

The interesting thing is that the planes *do* continue onward if level-bombing...so the behavior is already programmed in for one type of weapon. KF doesn't need to invent anything new, per se. They just need to replicate that AI action for the other types of aerial attacks.

[@guilty_mulburry5903]

This series is amazing thank you for uploading these episodes so regularly

[@lupulul]

Imagine a "Convoy to Malta" campaign, with the Royal Navy versus Regia Marina of Italy. German planes & technologies can show up, along with the VIchy France & Free French forces. That would be a killer of a campaign.

[@Vipre-]

I'd love to see that. Feels like it's always Atlantic or Pacific campaigns, don't think I've ever seen a Med one.

[@TheAngelobarker]

Lol the only german technology that would show up would be the stukas. German torpedos sucked so hard they bought Italian ones. The motobomba fff would make convoy attacks a breeze. That being said I'd love to see littorio in action.

[@jonathancadavidvasquezmarq2435]

Nothing better than coffee with a new wolfpack video.

[@hoangho6781]

I know right

[@whyme943]

When you're shuttling troops off Guadalcanal, remember to use your destroyers! It might be more efficient than dispatching an entire convoy...

[@IrishAmerican17]

Destroyers hold 200, Lt. cruisers 250, or subs also can carry 60.

[@whiskeyhotel95]

I really want them to add the Philippines campaign so yamato and musashi can have their refits as well as the iowas so yamato and Iowa can square off

[@Wolfpack345]

I agree I would like to see the AI greatly improved before we start to see new campaigns/ DLC. However Yamato is in the game with her 1944 configuration so I think a late campaign is possible.

[@whiskeyhotel95]

@@Wolfpack345 yeah I agree with the ai but I really do want the better aa refit musashi and yamato cause to me they are better looking in those setups

[@hanz608]

I just wanted to start learning. Now I am stuck here. AWSOME !

[@rupben01]

Hahaha. My Birthday yesterday, and my woman said exactly your words. 'Let's bring it up the rear, one more time' 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jilthunder2276]

Your VALs` pilots gain experience as it seems =) What a great battle - so many new features to be seen here: anti-u-boat strikes, new weather conditions (rain), large-scale bomb attacks... and also your footage cutting was very nice: every strike was watchable from a good angle. Such a great series - thank you (again) for playing this!!!

[@stargazer79]

"Do I really want to send 4 Vals against a single DD?" Yes. Yes you do. There's no kill like overkill. ;3

[@paulborisiv519]

OMG Yesterday i discovered that you can do Kamikaze Attacks, i don't think they meant to have this implomented because you need to really micro it. The way i do it is: (With 4 Zeros) Form up in Line Ahead, Descend to 30 ft, and just head straight for the ship, once AA Fire opens up, press spacebar and pause, select each and every Zero and press their Machine Gun button (just for that extra damage, it lights some fires and secondary explosions), Unpause, AIM FOR THE BRIDGE/FUNNELS, since the zeros can only go as low as 30 ft, you must hit something 30 ft above water, normally the bridge or Funnels do a good target, Do not try this on destroyers as 90% of the time you either miss or some of them are simply too low for you to hit, this works on Merchant Vessels too, 4 Might not be enough to sink a ship but it can and will Cripple a Cruiser, then you will have an advantadge if you encounter it in open battle with your fleet, or you can throw another flight at it and hope it sinks, there was this one light cruiser that survived 12 Aircraft, but then a Heavy Cruiser sunk after only 8 of them had striked, it's mostly up to luck i guess, i manually guide the leader of the flight with A and D as i find it quite hard to navigate using the waypoint system, you can do this with mostly any plane but i only had an airbase lvl 1 and i was going to lose my fleet had i not started the kamikaze attacks because my fleet was running dry on ammo and was basically defenceless, so as the enemy fleet aproached, i sent strike after strike after strike, i managed to widdle down a TF of 2 DDs, 2 CLs and 2 CAs down to only 2 DDs and a CL, my beautiful Tone finished off the CL whilst the Destroyers Fled :D

[@adamtruong1759]

Dive bombing sideways is actually very accurate! Might try that technique.

[@joebuchanan9563]

Thank you Wolfpack345 for another GREAT narration and video. You make an otherwise dry game play fun to watch. I think the reason you loose so many aircraft is that the AI is programed to take into account the non-self-sealing fuel tanks of the Japanese aircraft. Keep up the great job man, you're the best on the TUBE!

[@peterlewerin4213]

Now the enemy ships really are going down after being hit. I was used from earlier episodes to seeing (after attack and minor hit, ship sailing confidently, some smudges along the side) Wolf: "Yeah, she pretty much done for."

[@thomasgreen1816]

Outstanding. Can't wait to see this mission!

[@ancillary9683]

This series is awesome.

[@MushaverPasha]

Also, could I suggest a little reorganization of your taskforces? I think, joining the two kongos together with three or four CA's and a few destroyers would give a pretty hard hitting fast surface group. Then, if you could get the Musashi, her, Yamato, again three or four CAs and destroyer escorts, would provide you a main battle line to slog it out with US BBs in case they show up.

[@johnp9402]

These videos are super entertaining I don't even have to buy a computer to play

[@ijnfleetadmiral]

08:00: "Coming right up her rear..." (George Takei voice) Oh myyyy! 🤣🤣🤣

[@brianriphagen9074]

26:20 geez that bombing run was the best we have seen yet i think

[@tuckerswooshswooshstab6022]

21:31 "That's gotta huwt" I f e l t that on another level man. Rhotacism gang

[@juengere]

I love this IJN series! Can't wait for an American series after this one.

[@crusader318]

Probably not going to happen

[@ridetheapex]

Oh.....it's happening....

[@romakrelian]

25:39 "If you're from a carrier I care about you." Oh so that's why it's called a care-ier.

[@vedranseretin8633]

Love the vids and keep up the great work and i had an observation, if you look at the first Val strike in the video you might notice that the Vals that where bombing the freighter from the front/back in the line that the freighter was sailing got better and more bomb hits. Test it out and it might net you more sunken ships in the long run. Cheers

[@tinchorb1340]

I love the history you give to them When a sim like il 2 jist become a simulator game whit a incredible history of a t34 crew, the panzer 4 one and the biggest ace on the battle of moscow

[@OriginalWarwood]

Enjoying the series. Greatly appreciated, as I am still watching to see how they developers move forward with improvements and changes. There are some series concerns I have before I'll buy the game, but it is awesome to be able to see the changes and status through the series out there like this one. For example, they really need to improve the flight path after attacking; your having to micro them so they don't turn back into the AA is foolish.

[@bleyse1916]

I'd seriously reccomend doing airstrikes with the Kates equipped with the single 800kg bomb load. It is absolutely glorious if they hit, and you can always manually level bomb for maximum profit

[@magni5648]

BuOrd, truly the IJN's greatest ally.

[@chrisb6196]

Send subs with 60 troops each to capture all those open control points. Do not leave tactical battles until all enemy ships have either extinguished fires or sunk. Having one squadron at a time attack with each val targeting a separate ship is much more efficient, could have wiped out that entire convoy on the first pass no problem with that many vals in the area.

[@howiestillgamez5326]

24:51 I think since the vals came in sideways, all the bombs which are usually dropped next to each other just stacked

[@Vipre-]

30:38 Now that's just a fantastic visual.

[@altair3232]

11:15 to high impact angle of that torpedo. Got "eated" by additionally angled prow.

[@makeitcraz6342]

It would be amazing to see a Royal Navy campaign after this one !

[@willynthepoorboys2]

Mayhem, death, and destruction...the advisory wrings hands in delight!

[@lupulul]

In latest beta the AI is behaving way better, especially when it comes to CV warfare. Get the mod "The Tokyo Express" if you want a real challenge in the campaign. The AI does not necessarily make wiser decisions, but the parameters have been tweaked for much more aggressive stances and the AI doesn't suicide anymore like crazy.

[@davebowman9000]

Another amazing delivery! You can't bring these out fast enough!

[@Ghost75654]

I will give you a hint for torpedo bombers, drop manually at an alt of 130, if you let the bot do it, they will drop to early, so its always better to do it yourself.

[@theupsidedownhuntingcat]

wolf: I would consider that good. me: bro everything planes do in this campaign is good they are a++ pilots.

[@benjaminv6039]

Try bombing length ways of the ship rather than width. You will gaurentee hits usually and can reduce the AA exposure by target leading the rear of the column.

[@_R-R]

The Mark 14 torpedo. Love/Hate relationship.

[@swordmonkey6635]

Drinking game: Every time Wolfpack says "Yeah. That should just about do it. That ship is done." And the ship survives, take a shot. Result: Alcohol poisoning. lol

[@kennethblak6940]

Love following this campaign. Hope we'll see some Bettys soon.

[@JustPeasant]

Commandeering more submersibles might be a good thing, Wolfpack. I doubt you'll be able to confront the top notch US battleships with Yamato and Carrier only! Although, Musashi should be available at some point, but subs are the backbone. Edit: Battleships and Heavy cruisers are helpless against the submarines! You are good with subs and know how to use them :-)

[@skeeferguson5783]

Cant get enough of this series

[@sanguma]

love the series! looking forward to double carrier group!

[@justismcclain8131]

This is my favorite episode.

[@Routerproblem]

I found out that the best way of killing Task forces with muliple Large ships are Wolfpacks of 2-3 Subs. either kill all DDs first or manage to land all torps at the same time on all big targets.

[@TheArmise]

A word to resume to last episode, overkill.

[@Strato5]

This game could really do with an opposing force ramp up difficulty modifer that you can set. Wouldn't necessarily be historic for certain nations, but it would help keep things difficult as the game progresses.

[@jondough76]

8:00 My favorite pastime..

[@PapaBear816]

The need to increase the AI honestly. To many times the AI just went beyond stupid.

[@MushaverPasha]

A RN campaign by Wolfpack?? HELL YEAH!

[@jamessweet5341]

The air power of a task group varies with the square of the number of CVs. So two are four times as powerful as 1. I have to agree the AI sucks with those CVs. Neither launched a CAP or offensive strike despite being chased for hours.

[@gamerbeast670]

I’ve been waiting for so long for this episode

[@madkyngehenry4401]

Great to see your ASW game is improving nicely - must feel a little weird to be on the *other* side of the coin, however. All in all, you're making solid progress towards an Imperial victory in the Pacific. Unless the U.S. AI improves drastically, I don't think much can stop you. Any possibility that you might try to make an attempt on Port Morseby down the road? Good work, Wolfpack! Cheers!

[@MagusSartori]

16:23 Phrasing!

[@drewhartwell2559]

yeah man it gets worse. I’m up to 310 ships sunk. I’m looking for 2 more Cleveland class light cruisers and a handful of heavy cruisers. Beyond that grinding thru all 176 fletchers and 70ish Gatos.

[@Spitfire_1940]

I wonder if they plan on making the campaigns dynamic. Like let's say when you win this campaign they had a 2nd battle of midway campaign.

[@muhammedenestopcu2406]

at this rate, wolfpack will sink the entire US Navy during his campaign. In the future, the only thing left for the US would be to surrender

[@zuikakuzk0229]

The Shoukaku class carriers actually were supposed to have a top speed of 36kn, makeing them the fastest carriers in the world at the time

[@imamage]

Suzutsuki stuck by dub torp, the same name ship iRL also survived WW2 (which is consider lucky)

[@thiagonadaf4182]

can`t you take fuel from other bases and send to guadacanal to upgrade the airbase to unlock bety`s since those have better paylod and range than vals

[@WelderTiriba]

I love this series!

[@venomkg9723]

Great as always keep them coming

[@JungleJimAB9AB]

Thanks for posting another exciting episode of this great game. Re your "Joystick" conflict comment: Please show your current setup. Is it different for ships vs planes?

[@bruhx1250]

Just like the battle of Moscow vid another great one!!!

[@zacharygatt7935]

Have you ever thought that the cargo ships are heading to the island opposite Guatal Canal

[@thecouncilofthirteen2943]

9:30 sad Kriegsmarine noises

[@jacobktan]

Thanks for another episode!

[@marcusmelander6087]

Great work man

[@3tacoman]

Can you launch planes from the carrier well in the tactical mode ? Thank you

[@daveb.4383]

At the very start and only defensive planes not attack planes

[@heirofrohan7865]

Can carriers launch aircraft in the tactical map view?

[@mercator79]

Mark 14... 14% chance of not being a dud

[@TheAngelobarker]

Fun fact after italy changed sides the admiral minisini of the Italian ordinance dept was secretly rushed to the United States with the designs for the motobomba fff and the italian torpdo pistol and other italian torpedos in an effort to fix the mk14. He was the designer of the 100/47 minisini dual mount cannons found on italian capital ships.

[@oskareriksson267]

Wouldn't be a wolfpack video without him saying "rudder and midships" every 30 seconds

[@mediocrefunkybeat]

Rudder Amidships. An iconic command.

[@Gigi-ik3br]

It's better than"Go straight!" 😉

[@stephanb.3342]

Well done commander!

[@blueraptorrr]

Finally a long vid

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

Way better gameplay then Tortuga.

[@Isaiah_6_8]

great to see the domination at your hand although wish there was more fight in the A.I. in tactics. those two carrier fleets did nothing for the US.

[@tinchorb1340]

24:55 Ouch

[@markp4451]

Can you launch a float plane to sub search while in combat?

[@jefferynelson]

Game creators, sponsor the Wolfpack !!

[@davidgliga3250]

I love soo much this searies I am so exaitet to see what is next

[@Heldermaior]

You might want to consider a restart of this campaign. I will still watch it but after sinking two american carriers and with no reinforcements in sight, the US would probably pull the plug on future operations in the Aera until they could assemble a bigger striking force. Start a new campaign with all the new goodies instead :)

[@Dillysdilly1912]

Have been watching and loving your videos for years Wolfpack. Keep it up! Only small thing, Milne Bay isn't pronounced as you are saying it. I forsee this series moving towards there in the future. Just so you know :)

[@paulwilson4369]

5:25 Shit. This might not go well. LMAO

[@daccbeatbox1390]

Instead of running after a drop, make the Vals gunrun the ships. The risk is more than worth the reward.

[@daveb.4383]

Maybe with the land base ones but the carrier ones once they die they are gone till you get to port to replenish them!

[@daccbeatbox1390]

@@daveb.4383 even though the carrier based ones are only replenished by RTB, it is still a more viable option than having dozens of extra enemies in the theater of war. A tactical overview of the strategy is, trade up x number of planes for the exponentially more valuable ships they take out. The way that he chose is just making no tactical sense, even if going for "realism" in the playthrough, Vals would have been ordered to Kamikaze in the event that the enemy ship was a target of military value. Real IJN aerial warfare strategy gave any military vessel a strafe, drop tactics approach and if the ship survives, ram. Exceptions are cargo and tanker ships as well as Hospitalships. In those cases it was strafe, drop tactics for cargo and tanker, but Hospitalships were not destroyed in open sea.