War on the Sea || Defense of the East || Ep.2 -Defending Ceylon

Japanese Command in disbelief at losing a Carrier, a Sub, two Light Cruisers, a Heavy Cruiser, two Torpedo Boats and four Freighters whereas the RN have only lost a single Destroyer.

Honestly my favorite content from Wolfpack. Such a unique and fun game

"HMS Scout, who scored first blood, settled low, but upright to the end and the eternal patrol of Neptune's realm."--RN dispatch to London, via Bombay

Wow, the armed merchant cruiser solo-carried the rest of that Japanese fleet

4:14 : "And that's going to speed up the sub's dive time for sure" 🤣 Epic

1) A light cruiser and a heavy cruiser and you gripe about losing five planes? Dude, that's a fine tradeoff in my book! 2) The Aikoku Maru class was probably the largest of the IJN's merchant cruisers. They were originally passenger-cargo liners built for the Japan-South America run, and were large, beautifully-proportioned ships. Aikoku Maru and Hokoku Maru (sisters) were the terrors of the Indian Ocean during the long raiding cruise they conducted...until they encountered the Dutch tanker Ondina, which decided to fight back. As Hokoku Maru pressed the attack, Ondina scored a lucky hit on Hokoku Maru's torpedo mount in the stern, blowing the ship apart. Aikoku Maru fired a few shots in fury at the destruction of her younger sister, picked up Hokoku Maru's survivors, and then beat a retreat. She survived until February 1944, when a TBF Avenger put a 1,000-lb. bomb directly into her forward cargo hold during the raid on Truk. The forward cargo hold was filled with ammunition, and the entire forward half of the ship was literally vaporized. The last ship of the class, Gokoku Maru, never got to serve as a merchant cruiser, completed much later in the war. She was torpedoed and sunk while serving as a transport in late 1944.

"Some secondary explosions" shows explosion half the size of the torpedo boat keep up the good work, I watch you just for the war on the sea content and would LOVE to see more

Excuse me Rear Admiral. If you are roleplaying as the Royal Navy I humbly request that you spell the word 'defense' with a 'c', i.e. 'defence' in the genuine British fashion. This is a brilliant series so far, thank you!

Just FYI, Wolf: That sub that you 'assisted with accelerated diving maneuvers' was, apparently, primarily a minelaying sub - Not sure if that has any in-game repercussions, but if you end up inexplicably losing ships along the west coast of India outside of an engagement or something... I guess now you'll know why 💩🙃

It is pretty frustrating when you give your ships a target and they ignore the order ater firing two salvos. Recommend disabling fire at will when you want your ships to attack a specific target. Just don't forget to give them a new target when they've sunk their previous one.

One thing I noticed is that, if you tell a ship to fire at a specific target but don’t turn off “fire at will”, they will just go back to their original target the moment you aren’t looking. Thats why they kept engaging that freighter and not the Sendai.

"Let's Respectfully Say That, HMS Scout Decided to Paths Seldom Trod..."

2nd episode in and we've already got our first Allied casualty, at least HMS scout gave the Japanese hell before going down. Gotta give props to the captain of that Armed Merchant Cruiser, she certainly put up a hell of a fight. All in all, a good engagement, a formation with that many large merchant vessels would have almost certainly been an invasion force destined for Ceylon

Merchant cruiser Yamato was not taking shit from anyone

The Fulmar was basically an enlarged Hurricane... and the Navigators in the Med used to go up with Thompson submachine guns in an attempt at boosting morale... but it does have 8 Brownings on the pointy end... for what the RN needed it was a little on the outdated side as the RN high command thought that navigating and flying the aircraft was too much for one man...

I feel like the AA guns need to be buffed on both sides. Kind of crazy how a single, slow, low flying seaplane can get through an entire task force of AA guns firing solely at it. I think it also just plays into the “meta” of using aircraft to sink entire task forces.

This promises to be another very interesting campaign of War on the Sea

There’s overkill, then there’s sinking the Toni.

Hi Wolfpack, love the War on the Sea videos! Just a heads up, in my experience ships will just ignore your attack orders a few seconds later if they have fire at will turned on. You can see this pretty clearly during the 24:46 engagement where everyone starts shooting the nearest merchant ship for no reason. Messes up solutions and is very annoying to keep track of during a long battle :)

Typically, when a friendly air group is intercepted by fighters, the AI CV group is within 25nm of the intercept. The only time it's farther out is if you're intercepted multiple times and escape and end up being chased. Also, the presence of that Jake means a Myoko, Takao, Mogami, or Tone class somewhere. (EDIT: on 2nd thought, the Jake may have come from the Sendai)