Those sailors on that sinking destroyer's deck just casually walking around next to the HUGE inferno that is the ship's bridge. They just simply refused to give a fuck.

This series was my childhood, thanks for making it :)

In case you havn't found out yet: Grey area is visual range, yellow is passive sonar (just a guy listening for noise like ship propellers or other indication of a ship like metal clanking, through a headphone; the blind spot from behind is because of the destroyer's own propeller preventing the passive sonar to listen there) and orange is active sonar, meaning they ping out a noise (the one you hear) which reflects off the ship, a sensor detects that reflection and becomes a blip on their screen. with your exact location. Destroyers try to get contacts through visual or passive sonar, then in case of a submarine, they use active sonar to find out where to toss their depth charges. The best angle to attack is not the rear (because you have to be really close and submerged subs are slow) but the side. You want to ambush. Aproximate their course, wait right outside active sonar range, and point blank them with a torpedo. The best location to hit is a flat surface (unlike your first shot on the cargo ship) below the smoke stack (that's where the engines are, and it's always a weak spot). So if a ship lies deep in the water you can hit it lower (which reduces the risk of the torp being spotted), but you always want to hit a flat surface as it increases (internal) damage. Many ships can still limp back with a hole in them. I never used mods for this game and I loved it. I wish the sub genre was more popular, they could do so much more in this setting. :-) If you want artsy shots, shouldn't conserve ammo so strictly. I know it means more tonnage, but it's just awesome to hit a tanker with two torps in the same spot. How many ships have I split in half and watched sink like the titanic. Good times. Oh Good times.

This is my 3rd or 4th time watching this series through in about 8 years. I just enjoy watching this. Every now and then, i get a hankering to watch you sail around in this sandbox

Just found this as a veteran of Silent Hunter 1, 2 and 3 this is a great find for me! I've been looking for a solid Let's Play of the later games, perhaps as a way to entice me back to the series. I've enjoyed it so thoroughly that I have subscribed. Vorwärts!

Saw you hit the freighter at about 24:00. If you set your torpedo depth deeper, the torpedo will explode into the center("backbone") of the ship and, at least in real life the percussion will break in two!. This technique is not so important with small ships. But when attacking the heavies: warships and aircraft carriers.

You can only imagine how good this game would be if Ubisoft didn't race out their games,and autually fixed bugs, and added fun features so people didn't have to install mods. Oh well 😀

Why do the current warships in the Polish navy have glass bottoms? So they can see the old Polish navy. lol

This series was my childhood, hope you’re ok now man

30:40 That is the most brilliant tactic in the history of submarine tactics.

If you ever travel to Germany, visit Laboe just outside of Keil. They have a type 7c up on shore and you can see the interior of the u-boat is really accurate in SH5. Also nice let's play so far.

Great video mate! You deserve so much more views and subs.. Gonna watch the whole series now xD liked and subbed, keep it up!

so, there's a guy actually walking into the flames and relaxing there at 37:15 ? XD

that ship at around 23:00 looked more like a SV Medium Freighter than the one that you picked. so glad I found this channel, hope you go back to making Silent Hunter videos again, they're the only things that teach me this game & that have convinced me to save up for it. please, come back to youtube & making videos again!... :'( we miss you, brethren.

just look at you channel...really nice looking forward to watching more

It is actually accurate to the interior and exterior layout of a Type VII submarine

OMG THANK YOU UR THE ONLY ENGLISH GUY WHO PLAYS THIS AND DOESENT QUIT AFTER LIKE 3 VIDS IVE JUST SUBBED (;

The Dock and the Submarine remind me of Medal of Honor : Allied Assault...

Using the deck gun is always a fantastic way to take out a ship, at least individual ones. A convoy is a different story, although if you time your torpedo shots right and wait for the first explosions you can quickly surface and start bombarding the remaining targets from afar. Merchant vessels are virtually completely defenseless in this game

I remember watching this about 4 years ago 5th grade, now that I am finishing up 9th. That first Polish ship kill was noice.

Every single time he says "Silent Hunter",I keep hearing "Salad Hunter".

I've had this game on my Steam wishlist for several years and just never picked it up. I decided to watch a Let's Play on it and found this. The result, of course, was that Steam made $10 off of me, because after watching a few of these, I went and purchased the game. After modding it a little bit (to resolve a few bug issues), I've played for 20+ hours in two days. Amazingly fun. Thank you History Nerd.

It was a really nice introduction. Thank You !!!

Hey, your channel might not be big, but you sir are an amazing submarine(U-Boat) captain and I hope you continue making awesome videos.

I would imagine the hit on the destroyer would have done massive damage to the bridge, with the damage from that shockwave probably killing most of the ships command staff...

I need to rewatch season 1. It was the longest and the best season!

you' re real good at turning ships into unsurfaceable submarines in this game

Probably already figured this out, but the yellow-ish circle around a warship is their passive sonar, so if you enter that, they'll hear your engines running, and the size varies depending on how fast you're going, while the orange-ish half circle is their active sonar, which will pick you up the second you enter it with that 'ping' sound you always hear in Hollywood.

I love this game so happy you played it and I'm just asking maybe for you to make a twitter or something so we can get more information about future videos man your doing a great job keep it up

i literly spent hours trying to find this video since I remember it extremely clearly since the day the video came out

At 19:24 when you're looking for the sonar (and as a sharp response to Deebz270 ), there was a fixed, passive sonar on WWII German u-boats, and it's below the waterline, like a sonar should be. It is a type of hull array called gruppenhorchgerät, and represents (in my mind) some really astounding early electrical engineering! It used an LC ladder as a "line delay" circuit to allow omnidirectional beamforming from a distribution of fixed hydrophones. ( @Deebz270 , earn your dolphins, mate! )

I loved this video. Likes and subscribed!

A lesson in nautical [specifically submarine] terminology.,,, First of all, you never call a submarine a SHIP!... It is a 'boat'. The front of a submarine, like any vessel is the bow, but internally, the 'front torpedo room' is called the forward torpedo room' and is regarded by [British] submariners as the 'fore ends'. Conversely, the arse end of a vessel is the 'stern' and internally, on this class of sub, constitutes the 'Aft Torpedo room'. There is no such thing as a 'kitchen' on ANY sea going vessel, the place where meals are prepared is called a 'Galley'. There are no walls, the term is 'bulkheads'. The 'ceiling' is a 'deck head', 'up top' is called 'aloft, or 'topside'... The most common error, is to call the 'superstructure' the 'conning tower'... It is always called the 'Fin' or for you Americans... the 'Sail'... Though on U-boats, this would be 'the bridge' [which also applies to the surfaced conning position on all modern subs]. On U-Boats, the 'conning tower' was the compartment placed above the control room and beneath the superstructure/Fin/Sail. This is where the smaller 'Attack Periscope' was situated and was only used when performing a submerged attack. There are no such things as 'maps' onboard a vessel... Vessels navigate using 'Charts'. On leaving port, the 'green buoy' is called the starboard hand light and the 'red buoy' is the 'port hand light'.. U-boats were never fitted with SONAR, which was a post war invention based upon 'hydrophones' and [...the British invention]... ASDIC. U-Boats of the Kriegsmarine had equivalent technology, though they never developed ASDIC [...'active (pinging...) sonar']. Acquisition of bearing of 'targets' was crude, using rotational hydrophones that were rotated by hand, by the Radio Operator [Funkmatrosen]. Wherever the sound of the target was at maximum amplitude, usually [...though not always] indicated the approximate bearing relative to the listening vessel [...this system, though considerably improved, is still the principle means by which modern submarines 'see' underwater... Using 'passive' transducers in a fixed 'array' over the bow and various sections of the 'casing' of the sub... Also, on modern Hunter Killer Subs, a long cable, fitted with these transducers can be deployed, these are called a 'towed array']. Also, targets could be sought using various forms of Radio Direction Finding [RDF] On later U-Boats, rotational radar receivers were employed, that would pick up the RF pulses of allied RADAR. [Now still utilised and called Electronic Support Measures or ESM receivers]. Having regaled/bored you all with nerdish nautical sludgemariner speil... The description of the game was good. I was somewhat of a veteran on SH-3, and admit, with some guilt to being the holder of the 'Knights' cross [..with 'oak leaves'], for a tally of over 300,000 tons of allied shipping sunk Bestowed upon me by non other than Doenitz himself... Not bad, considering that I was only an RO/AB[SM] during the 'Cold War'... BTW, in answer to a question here, on SH-3, one could set the game interaction so that the crew members would sprechen sie Deutsche, with the translation appearing as the written commands/replies in English... That was cool... It helped with my German too, though admittedly only with regard to being a U-Boat 'Kaleunt' or 'matrossen'....

Hey this was a great video good job

You just earned a sub! Get it Sub, submarine? Oh screw it.

The interior of the Type VIIC is exactly as predicted in this video.

How i felt after i took a sea mine... Very very sad.. i lost good people..

Nice video mate 😉

37:19 The ship crew is like "Bollocks, they got us. Well, better just walk around then."

The rotary periscope is a polish invention.

Yellow circle is Hydrophone range, Smaller orange semicircle is Sonar rage

great video i love this game!

Does anyone remember silent hunter 1? I really loved it and I still have the disk but sadly it doesn't work with my current PC.

I tick every box exept the manual target mode. I still have to think about where things are and how to move but I don't have to calculate shots and miss because of bad math.

Love this I have subscribed! I am tempted to buy this game.

early type vii u boats had 2 sonar units mounted on the sides they couldnt be adjusted and could only hear on the sides

when they drop depth charges the screen should be shaking like crazy, you should hear people screaming and vents would break and lights would pop

I keep dying during time compression. Last time i collided with an enemy destroyer out of the blue

35:35 Having a ship with undamaged depth charge ability to go right over you is the last thing anyone would want on a submarine.

this is pretty close to what the interior of a uboat looks like they actually did a good job

So I just got the game and am still feeling around , what happens if you break the lock in a ship after you fire the torpedo?

can you show us how you plot your intercept cousese??

This is amazing

I own Silent Hunter IV: Wolves of the Pacific and love it. It's the best sub sim I've played, by far. I just bought Silent Hunter 5 and will get it tomorrow. The graphics in SH4 are superb, but those in SH5 seem to be even a bit better. One thing I noticed in this video is that the destroyer you torpedoed should have sunk almost immediately and would certainly not have kept steaming along and would have not been able to drop depth charges on you. That's not realistic at all. I hope all of the combat isn't as inaccurate as that.

Can ships drop depth charges or launch and sub planes?

Okay, so these graphics have me wanting to finally play something newer than SH3 (SH4 had bad lag while in time compression which made me give up on it). A question to anyone who plays it, has SH5 been patched sufficiently to make it worthwhile? Are there some good mods which fix the gameplay. All I heard about in reviews were the crippling bugs and DRM.

That submarine in this game does it tell you when it switches to diesel or to batteries?

I remember trying to play this game. But never made it through the first mission, because firstly it never counted in any ships I sank, although I did it in the designated area, and it happened way too often that the torpedoes I launched just frose and stopped in the water close to the sub. So full of bugs...

Got the DVD Version here...it ran once on Vista, but won´t run on my win 7 anymore

great vid thanks for sharing

I think that destroyer you sank was a Blyskawika-class destroyer...

I have Silent Hunter 3 on DVD and I cannot install it on Windows 10. I've looked at the subsim forums and their instructions won't work at all. Is there an alternate site with instructions on how to perform a first time install of SH3 on Windows 10?? I miss playing the game and I just can't. =(

Ah, I remember the first time trying to play this game, it ran at 10 FPS at the lowest settings XD

thanks for this :D

Subbing for this awesome series.

One day i had such a great game on Silent Hunter 3, so much tonnage sunk, but when getting away a destroyer didn't let me go he pass on top of me endlessly, i had no torpedo to fight back, i went down silent ruining all quiet with anti-sonar coating all upgrades i couldn't escape, is not the same when you are playing on quick battle than when you go and find the big fleet, it feels so good, i still have my old windows XP computer an old Athlon 64, because my new computer can't play this game, silent hunter 3 is somehow the best undefeated it has a soul, and like you said the wolfs of the pacific i don't like pacific here on Europe the boats are easier to find, quicker, SH3 the voice of the man who yells to the crew the voice the acting, great, is like command and conquer Tiberius wars and age of empires 2, the new games couldn't do better, victory games they were smart to retire, someday hopefully they will be back to remake the game like on age of empires 2; supreme commander the new game they didnt like it, they puss strategy further i really liked, retreating is important, the requirements are high for a computer to play it i thing is an important reason why it didn't sold as it should, it was a game for not much stratgly people they change audience.

You are the best!

bro, can you tell me how to install mod on SH5 Steam Version?

where is your time compression keybind? sounds like it is on mouse. How can you change keybinds?

nice vid i think i will buy that game too

Just wanted to say that I FINALLY got past all the PC issues and can actually play this game myself. I'm looking forward to it. BTW... the quote on the loading screen in this episode is attributed to Grace Murray Hopper. I don't think it was actually her that said it but she IS the U.S. Navy woman credited with being instrumental in the development of COBOL and she did coin a term after finding a moth in a circuit board in an early computer... Yes, she was the first to institute the practice of referring to program malfunctions as "bugs." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper Figured that a "History Nerd" would want to know that...

Awesome!

I imagine the inner circle is the range of the deck guns.

Do I recive points and exp if i didnt chose the mission???I just go out to sink ships towards Danzig!!!pls anwser me!!!

Nice man u got a New subscriber

Good playlists fella, another subby :-)

Well done.

In SH4 the crew went along casually, unless You directly hit the area where they were standing, and then they might fall down.

it looks great.

wow moving around.....'back in my day..... was just stations lol.....

the ship looks about 90% or more like it´s real counter part...if you watched " Das Boot " then you will notice all the details :D btw. nice let´s play

I got this game on a disk and steam, and for both versions the game does not even launch, it crashes on launch. But I want to play the game really badly. Is there a fix for that?

Just started this series (a bit late, it would seem). That destroyer got absolutely sucker punched in the head-on pass, and nothing to show for it! If the captain made it out, i'm sure he'll be tearing his hair out over that...

holy shit this video sold me the game. next time it's on sale, I'll be buying it. I'm craving for games that require a bit of map-reading, and maybe some calculations on the side. but pray tell, these games, you only play as u-boats?

I enjoyed your commentary. Thanks for your efforts! I haven't bought 5 yet, I will now. BTW, I share many of your viewpoints and opinions, so you're not such a bad guy. And us good guys are sooooo hard to find. lol

Wait you need to drive the sub or if you draw course it will go that way?

I feel like that sonar ping intro failed my combat earplugs

i was a huge silent hunter 2 & 3 then sh3 grey wolves mod player. if i bought a computer is this modded or vanilla?

nosed dived like the titanic

Nice vid

Just for info there are only 2 spots on any ship that are a sure one hit kill. The ammunition storage and the engine room. Quite cool when you hit either of them. Quite obvious when you hit the ammunition bay. BOOOM. But every other spot is survivable and take day's for the ship to sink. And you will quickly notice when you hit the engine room. White steam coming out of the smoke stack followed with secondary explosions. Try aiming for direct under the smoke stack or behind it to get the engine room. Ammunition bay is different on every ship. And not every ship has them below sea line. Oh then again you aren't aiming yourself you are using the arcady shooty thingy =). Let me tell you it is nothing as satisfying doing all the calculations fire the torpedo watch your stopwatch and hearing the explosion right at the second you calculated and you check out the ship for damage and you hit the spot you want to hit.

You got a new sub from me :)

You got a new sub:)

the control icons are so much easier to understand then SH3 OR 4

Do you use a flood/sink mod here? I ask because I sometimes need like 4 torpedos to sink one ship. And all of the torpedos do actually hit the boat. But your ships sink by only one torpedo.

Hehe, Chips of the old block!

If I remember correctly, after D-Day, the U-Boats' commander, Dönitz' career pretty much ended, wich meant the Reich didn't use submarines THAT MUCH. Probably they still used these, but I'm very sure they didn't earn any success. The enemy absolutely overwhelmed the German submarines. So I think that's why the original game doesn't have 1945 scenarios.

I wish I had a soothing nerdy voice. : - )

May i ask how your map looks normal? Cause when i got Open Horizons ll i got a new kinda map who dosent show the enemy countries.

Hey, just found your Lets Play and have to tell that it is really cool :) I am from Germany myselfe and don't really like german Lets Plays. Also I got a question, why do some english people say Submarine and some Uboots? Subscribed to you :)