War on the Sea || IJN Campaign || Ep.25 - Yamato & Musashi.

[@fun_police8011]

Sending two of the largest battleships ever constructed to kill 2 destroyers and their freighters is like grabbing an RPG to deal with a spider.

[@TR0X3N]

Yes but it’s satisfying

[@ledzik1893]

When dealing with spiders nothing is overkill

[@joshanmarcusyuanregencia345]

@@ledzik1893 Amen to that brother

[@filipsepesi5944]

Even the largest battleships need target practice.

[@ericjustice5742]

RPG's still aren't enough. Need MOAB's or JDAM's for spiders.

[@matthewdelval8078]

This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them! -US Navy, circa 1942

[@Wolfpack345]

Lol

[@RichieGonzales_28]

The negotiations were short

[@saturn12002]

A nice feature to add would be field rearmament. Being able to load your cargo ships with ammunition, and have them meet up with task forces to rearm them, rather than having to send your task forces all the way back to base.

[@acheronstark7149]

the best way to deal with the ammo issues in this game is to build a lvl 3dock as a FOB. Shortland islands is a good one to start, as it has a lvl 2 dock from the start of the game, so its only 3k supplies, 300 eng and 300 fuel. I usually build one on Guadalcanal after that.

[@Iymarra]

Captain of the Benson being all 'man we're really under some withering fire from those guns' and Wolfpack is all 'hold my beer, release the 18 inchers'

[@snailboi6902]

Benson: the fucking *what*

[@MilitaryHistoryVisualized]

00:43 back to another episode of rofl-stomping with the IJN :)

[@thecobra1143]

Wasn’t expecting for YOU to be here! Nice to know :)

[@loler1565v2]

How do the ship ram mechanics work in this game. Just wondering if for the first sub u sunk there if u just parked ur ship over it and let it hit on its way up what would have happened and if it would cause less dmg to your ship then getting shot. Also how does ship accuracy differ in this game vs firing solution on ships, is it like base accuracy x solution= actual accuracy?

[@galdavin]

@@loler1565v2 I've sunk another sub by getting under it and e-blowing. Was so much fun.

[@MilitaryHistoryVisualized]

@@thecobra1143 sürprise ;)

[@rohanthandi4903]

what up bro cheers

[@snailboi6902]

Imagine being in a freighter group escorted by 2 destroyers, then a whole fleet consisting of Yamato, Musashi, Mogami, Takao, Fubuki, Chokai, Atago, Kongo and Kumano start opening fire.

[@OregonYeti]

Just a few of the deadliest vessels to ever sail the pacific nothing to sweat 😂😂

[@Commander_35]

It happened tho. Instead of cargo ships you got baby carriers.

[@Roddy229]

"The Americans have brought a lot of subs into the theater" Well yeah, you've rofl stomped a lot of their surface fleet already 🤣

[@kot1pelto]

Wolf, this is THE BEST series in your channel. Look at the numbers. We love how you're handling it, keep at it.

[@matejgregor1019]

i've been waiting for this episode for so long

[@joshanmarcusyuanregencia345]

Same here dawg

[@ferday11111]

Agree

[@kot1pelto]

He better do a USN campaign after this or keep playing the game in whatever mode! He makes it WAYYYY better than tortuga power.

[@inhibitedhat5959]

@@kot1pelto He actually has a US Campaign on his Twitch channel.

[@inhibitedhat5959]

Its really good

[@thecobra1143]

We got bombed, then we got the door kicked in... -Chester Nimitz 1885-1943

[@_tyrannus]

6:35 If you look on the map, the Jake wasn't shot down, it probably just crashed into terrain on its own. :D

[@michaelbillingham5580]

This guy deserves so many more views and subs. It's just such good gameplay and commentary I can only wish good upon him

[@dancingcow8640]

imagine you are on a little destroyer, and the fucking yamato, and musashi show up, along with a entire battlegroup, honestly I would just jump over the side

[@untruewalrus1323]

I think it would be a cool idea if contacts on the map initially appeared as a question mark rather than tellling you what the group consists of so you would then have to use your spotters/subs to actually identify the group's makeup. It would also make enemy subs more threatening because you wouldn't immediately know if you are being engaged by a sub specifically.

[@TrangleC]

You are asking for a lot of realism from a game where you can hover over your enemies like a all seeing ghost and spot their torpedoes as soon as they launch them, even though you have no ship or aircraft near them.

[@gunnervine]

​@@TrangleC there is a 'unlimited camera' option that you would think would be like in silent hunter and restrict you from shifting to the enemy pov but it doesnt seem to do anything.

[@keylacerros8122]

No three cause I think that tf also has kongo

[@rodrigogoncalves6165]

War on the sea: my favorite Wolfpack videos. That and the silent Hunter ones

[@anjaerdmann4578]

The Gang is back together!!!!!

[@blownaway9187]

07:48 ahh yes the world famous Yamato class and Kongo class DESTROYERS!

[@tmwarthunder1016]

Only when you mentioned this I noticed it 😂

[@anthonystejan8492]

25:42 Wolfpack: You're not gonna get away this time Gato-class submarine: You don't say...

[@thesaint5870]

19:50 Those 5 inch shots coming off those merchant ships are just going *BOING*

[@keylacerros8122]

They be going ding boing

[@christophervanoster]

‘That one didn’t go through!’

[@LiamDennehy]

Soooo nice to see the flights take a reasonable escape route - as in keep flying straight.

[@Wolfpack345]

For sure!

[@pedrotetsujiinoue4520]

youtube algorithm is bombarding your videos with commercials for me. I had five commercials (not counting the banners at the bottom of the screen) by the time I got to the middle of the video. You are doing something right. Thumbs up for you!

[@Wolfpack345]

Odd. I will check it out. Sorry about that.

[@pedrotetsujiinoue4520]

@@Wolfpack345 naw, not a problem. You shouldn't be sorry for a machine noticing that I will watch your full videos! I still watched the whole thing... twice!

[@Uli_Krosse]

Ha, finally! Been biting my nails for a new episode! \o/

[@e.kent.d9561]

Love the way you are showing all the action parts of the day's activities.

[@georgecoventry8441]

Another great video! Now, some comments about pronunciation. Unlike in English, the Japanese language does not emphasize the middle syllable in a 3 syllable word. Hence, though English speakers always want to say "Ya-MA-to", the Japanese say "YA-ma-to". And "MU-sa-shi". And "SHI-na-no". And "AH-ta-go"...etc. Chokai is still CHO-kai. Haruna is HA-roon-a. And the other thing is the Gato class submarines. I'm pretty sure it's pronounced like the Spanish word for cat (gato): GAH-to. Not GAY-to. Anyway, thanks for another great episode!

[@Wolfpack345]

Gato is not pronounced like the Spanish word for cat. It is in fact pronounced Gay-toe. It is how the USN pronounces it.

[@georgecoventry8441]

@@Wolfpack345 - Okay, I was wondering about that. I tried to look up the pronunciation of the fish name for the gato shark, which I think the class was named after, but I could not find it.

[@MrOzCDN]

I bought this game based on this series. I am almost done the US side of this same fight. The IJN only has 3 destroyers left and won't send them out ... I have scout planes over Rubal all the time. As an aside. When you are doing ASW you talk about the time setting in your pattern. I believe that time setting is the fuse on the depth charges. I have sat above a stopped sub and done single drops over the target and the time seems to determine the depth of explosion.

[@jimgagne4484]

about time,, this is the only series I love to watch

[@gremfive4246]

29:47 Lots of submarines in the area says the commander that has the New Hebrides blanketed in Imperial subs =p When I started the game I didnt look and realize there was Imperial destroyers with no asw abilities as I had made and deployed 2 hunter killer groups with them. What a noob mistake on my part. I realized my mistake the 1st time I tried hunting down a sub.

[@RichieGonzales_28]

These episodes are so good they need to be an hour long

[@thesaint5870]

OH GOD

[@thesaint5870]

Well in that case wolfpack might take a bit to edit that

[@breadandree1114]

well there are 30 episodes now and if each is one hour thats lots of wolfpack worth it tho

[@johnp9402]

I don't have a computer or play video games but for some reason I really like watching wolfpack

[@byronperry8931]

Same

[@Mrwownut12]

For some reason this is hypnotic to me

[@kacperq1987]

37:47 Wait a second... that's a big US battleteam!!!

[@Wolfpack345]

Indeed!

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

Saw that, huh? ;-)

[@stephenmiller195]

2 battleships against 2 destroyers lol, ouch now that's a bad day , loving the play through, thank you

[@JessWLStuart]

The secondary turrets on the Yamato class were originally the main turrets on the Mogami class. The Mogami class were all originally built with 6 inch guns to comply with naval treaties. When Japan abandoned the treaties, the Mogami class were up-gunned to 8 inch guns as depicted in the game. So, in a way the Mogami was attacking the USN ships twice! Also: "There are a lot more subs in the area!" says the gamer who is sinking most of the Allied surface fleet! LOL!

[@Galantus1964]

The cinematic " sail by" watching the cruisers fire was pure epicness...

[@bjorntrollgesicht1144]

Well, now you have shown those savages the might of the Imper... err, Empire!

[@KyleJohnson-ny7uu]

Learned this on my playthrough, you can skip bombs off the surface of the water to hit their broadside if you set your bombers altitude to 200 ft, I'd like to see you try this wolf

[@Galantus1964]

he knows

[@breadandree1114]

He tried it against subs in one of his earlier episodes

[@acer8123]

Captain: Open fire at the enemy benson! Main gun crew: Kaboom? Captain: No, not you. Main gun crew: aww :( Captain: ... okay maybe one kaboom Main gun crew: Yaaay :D

[@mateoberkhout4111]

Even the intro had me exited and the episode definitely exegesis my expectations

[@markstott6689]

Most enjoyable. Total control of the seas cannot be far away. It might be time to build more ASW forces considering the shear number of subs available to the US. Would it be better to have 3 or 4 DD's per group so that they can stay at sea longer before having to return to port for re-arming with depth charges?

[@augustosolari7721]

LOSSES SO FAR Empire of Japan Fighter aircraft: 30 Dive Bombers: 99 Torpedo Bombers: 24 Medium Bombers: 4 Seaplanes: 5 Submarines: 4 DD:1 USA Fighter aircraft: 23 Dive bombers: 10 Torpedo Bombers: 4 Seaplanes: 8 Submarines: 15 Merchants: 64 DD: 43 CL: 10 CA: 24 BB: 1 CV:2

[@danielross7983]

Is that a new function when launching scout planes... the little dial with location points around the fleet, to keep them on station I suppose?

[@Strothy2]

in the real world: The sisters finally united to show their might against the US.... **US-Carrier fleet chuckles** "hold my beer.... and watch this.... "

[@TR0X3N]

Would they have enough AirPower to deal with them in 42?

[@Dv087]

I think it would be a great addition to the game if a ships' accuracy increased based on gunnery practice. And considering that you can see individual pilots' records that they would getting in skill based on the number of missions they flew.

[@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078]

People always look at the aircraft carriers and the battleships and cheer at them, but Jesus, your small hunter killer ships are doing a respectable job of keeping those waters clean of enemy submarines!

[@themacker894]

The game still has endless merchant ships. It hardly matters that you've killed six merchants, unfortunately. I sure wish it did matter, beside preventing them from landing troops. IMHO the game has a long, long, long way to go before it's a decent game with a reasonable challenge. Kudos to you for enduring endless ship fights.

[@quackie6640]

Best part of my day!!

[@stokerboiler]

5"/51s are wicked guns. Old BB secondaries. Slow firing but high velocity.

[@ANWRocketMan]

Recently found your videos, just bought the game. have a long weekend to get into it! I love more "believable" strategy games like this, also love Graviteam Tactics for ground warfare in the same period. Plays very differently to the run of the mill RTS games.

[@christophero55]

I really enjoyed the variety in this episode. Good stuff.

[@querpa]

Thank you for doing repetitive stuff off-screen! Only so many times I can watch a group of 4 Val's slowly peck a convoy to death, lol.

[@keylacerros8122]

They should add a battle of midway were you can play either side

[@bartstiers5669]

Look in Single battle s ingame

[@Pyxis10]

Maybe agaibst Submarines with Destroyers restrict yourself to finding the torps with binoculars? It woild make dodging them more difficult and maybe add some tension to things.

[@joebuchanan9563]

Another great video! I like the way you try to conserve fuel & ammo because your supply line is rather long.

[@MushaverPasha]

I am following the series from the very start and the game improved beyond recognition through successive patches. One of the biggest remaining problems is, as you said, the inventory of available ships. Several key ships which have to be present at the Guadalcanal campaign are missing, such as CVs Saratoga and Wasp on the US side and Hiyo and Junyo along with the CVL Ryujo on the Japanese side. Submarine inventory is probably the biggest problem: just as you said, Gatos which wre not yet even laid down are present while old S class "pig boats" which nevertheless played an important role early in the campaign (such as the S-44 which sank the CA Kako the day after Savo battle) are missing. Maybe you can urge the developers to issue major patch to rectify the inventory problem.

[@ronaldstephenson4380]

Hard to believe, but your videos are getting better. With today being the 103rd anniversary of the downing of Manfred von Richthofen, I think I will go watch some Flying Circus videos you did.

[@floydkershner6591]

The real IJN used die in their ammo so that they could determine which shot was falling where. It would be great to see that in this game as well.

[@Planefan1000]

I think you mean 'dye' like the powder?

[@glenjones5416]

No such thing as overkill. My Dad was on Hornet @ Pearl. Good commentary, as usual. ASW well done too. Keep up good work lad.

[@tinchorb1340]

32:08 what you dont know wolf, is what they are always on their deck guns

[@alec1984]

Hi Wolfpack. I suggest trying DDs and CAs use AP shells on a broadside target and HE if angled against DDs and Supply Ships. BB should use HE against DDs and Supplu Ships and AP ONLY on broadside CAs and BBs. The BB AP will simply punch through a DD and won't do much damage. These are the game mechanics in WOWS. One would hope they have something similar but its something to test. The RNG, that's the problem. This game is so RNG based.

[@stokerboiler]

Wolfpack goes baby seal clubbing

[@NO_Expectations]

The gameplay is fascinating to watch and the graphics are stunning especially around sunset, I'm a bit surprised the American AI is only sending out the 2 destroyers and 6 merchants time after time. I keep hoping the AI will send out a large fleet with air cover and really test you in a large naval engagement.

[@firestorm165]

4:40 well to be fair after pearl harbor the US navy became somewhat... obsessed with AA defense for some strange reason

[@JustPeasant]

All the AI (USN) can do at this point is send wave after wave of destroyers and light cruisers. It is shy about sending its heavy hitters (battleships). South pacific is flooded with submersibles. Easy target for 'em.

[@ijnfleetadmiral]

Shimakaze was damaged that badly so quickly because of her age. By the time WWII began, the Minekaze-class ships were beyond-obsolete and were mainly used solely as convoy escorts or as patrol ships around the home islands. Shimakaze herself had - by the start of hostilities - been converted into a patrol boat; she wasn't even destroyer-level anymore. The Minekazes would not have been used for hunter-killer groups in the Solomons...those would've been Fubuki-class ships or other, more modern vessels.

[@bluestorm3628]

I’d say that with the level of control and power you now possess. After fully securing graudelcannal, you should then either invade Port Moresby or one of the forward island by the American’s main base of operations. Either way I’d say you need a operation name for it. How about Operation MO-2 Electric Boogaloo!

[@christian_swjy]

you have enough resources at Guadalcanal to upgrade the port to level 2 btw

[@togamid]

Yeah, but as he needs to update the airfield to level 5 to win the campaign and it is goinga ges to get the resources as it is, I think he's going to focus on the airfield

[@colintrueman8360]

Absolutely love this series yay!

[@ArfiniGa]

6 minutes I'm so slow for my favourite serieof episodes.

[@CombatantBlog]

After lunch - check! Getting some wine - check! Start "War on the Sea" campaign from Wolfpack345 - check!

[@thesaint5870]

23:40 IJN crew: target practice!

[@jollyjohnzz]

Another cracking episode .

[@arteckjay6537]

You have 70 submarines left to sink

[@Scootershot409]

7:48 Yamato class is a destroyer confirmed

[@gremfive4246]

I just had a unique kill, I-19 had an engagement that said enemy aircraft so I began the engagement to find my sub at periscope depth already so I went to leave the engagement only to pickup a tambor class sub right in front of me at periscope depth as well. I targeted him and closed head on to 1200 yds with a 99% solution and figured I would take a torp shot at him even though I figured the torp would sail over the top of him at the surface. I ended up hitting him right in the conning tower and sinking him, glad I took the shot.

[@awhahoo]

Nice, maybe Ill try this in custom battle

[@daveb.4383]

WOW that is awesome!

[@adamtruong1759]

US BBs in War on the Sea are on two sides of "in between": North Carolina being on the lower side, and South Dakota being on the higher side. With IJN with its current BB/BCs, there's no such thing as "in between" or "mediocre": Kongo is at near enough the bottom, while Yamato is almost unmatched, second to none.

[@SporksINTL]

I just started watching your (Hunters Over the Yalu Campaign) and i will say you never dissapoint

[@Pagan20-08]

With Yamato and Musashi together you TF 1 should be more than enough should you encounter any of the remaining battlewagons. Would you be land on an island near the New Hebrides? Establish a port to allow your subs and fleets in the area a closer port to rearm closer to the action?

[@justthosecrafters]

Let’s Goooo another banger video!

[@samaeldesolado]

Hey Wolfie ! The Gaz AAA has been released on IL2 ;)

[@jameswilliams1085]

Great episode, love the ASW

[@TheFlyWahine]

Nice stuff.

[@richl4112]

Hey mate loving the war at sea series. I would like to see other campaigns in the future and maybe hamstring yourself a bit more like maybe do a campaign without using any spotting planes at all so stuff sort of creeps up on you and you have to deal with it as it comes

[@gkagara]

It will be even cooler if you cannot see torpedo unless it is detected by sonar or sighted by the crew, the way player can see torpedo wake as soon as it is launched kinda broken

[@probrothetenth_787]

Yay Musashi! Very very pog

[@stokerboiler]

Historically USN flak should be buffed about this time as VT fuzes started showing up for 5" guns.

[@djsatane]

this is what i been waiting for 4 days!

[@420BulletSponge]

Try dive bombing bow on with a line ahead formation, maybe? It might keep a few of the DD's AA coming to bear on your aircraft.

[@samdhoss]

Nice series. Air power is just amazing lol

[@SteepleJAck2]

Thanks for your content.... its really enjoyable.

[@maxxloki2110]

After this campaign ends we definitely need the American side campaign

[@Koshiku]

Subs got nerfed twice now. First time when dive bombers started entering battle at 900+ feet even when their only enemy is the sub (if there are no surface ships in the vicinity, a sub starts the battle surfaced, and does not have time to dive before it gets bombed, and even one hit is usually fatal), second time just today, when they started (in beta) showing torps on the minimap. Anyways, a flight of dive bombers seems like the best way to deal with annoying submarines, regardless of the side you play...

[@satulurisarathchandra6857]

Episode worth the wait 😍

[@jacobktan]

Another great episode.

[@Felix-wb9kt]

Nice vid again, I enjoy them all the time. Greetings from Germany :)

[@teakippy9186]

Hey! is it possible to make a small task force of fast supply ships that could carry loads of ammo, so then you could position it maybe halfway between guotal canal and rebaul, so your other main task forces could supply there and get back into action faster, or even have the supply tackforce go to the other task forces to supply?

[@Kritfayle]

Destroyers are like pawns. They might not appear to be a big threat but how many chess games end up with a single pawn being in one super annoying position causing all sorts of problems.

[@elsidsadiku2091]

Greate campaign with the IJN, because with the US is so easy, but you really need to play elite on campaign difficulty, the standart difficulty is not so much challanging. PS: Your gameplay is great, very fun to watch.

[@daveb.4383]

Not arguing with your tactics, you have obviously done well for the Imperial Navy and his Majesty, but I have to admit if I was in your battle shoes, I would have a dedicated quick moving battle fleet to handle these light destroyer's and cargo ships that take up little command points and can quickly head home to rearm and replace each other. Like a group of Destroyers and light cruisers together. This way here your large battle group can stay on station not using up precious ammo needed for real engagements with battle groups that are a threat.

[@mattsterbenz1392]

You should make a "If I do say so myself" shirt

[@anotherfriendlyshikikan6960]

Its nice to see ASW