Tiller game called Wolfpack

[lecrop]

I have opened a website where I will be publishing scenarios for this fantastic game, I hope you find it interesting.

At the moment there is only one, the attack on Convoy BD-5, but more to come.

https://sites.google.com/view/ubootewargaming

[budd]

Been working my way through the scenarios,i'll give yours a try, thanks for sharing.

[lecrop]

A second scenario added, The Wrath of Wotan: the attack of the wolfpack Wotan on convoy SC-104 on october 1942.

https://sites.google.com/view/ubootewargaming

[RyanCrierie]

Is the Type XXI and XXIII in it? [&:]

[lecrop]

ORIGINAL: RyanCrierie

Is the Type XXI and XXIII in it? [&:]

Yes. These are the ships and aircraft included:

[wodin]

Named pilots and U Boat commanders?

Crew casualties?

[stolypin]

ORIGINAL: lecrop

I have opened a website where I will be publishing scenarios for this fantastic game, I hope you find it interesting.

At the moment there is only one, the attack on Convoy BD-5, but more to come.

https://sites.google.com/view/ubootewargaming

Just bookmarked your site and look forward to playing your scenarios.

[IslandInland]

ORIGINAL: lecrop

I have opened a website where I will be publishing scenarios for this fantastic game, I hope you find it interesting.

At the moment there is only one, the attack on Convoy BD-5, but more to come.

https://sites.google.com/view/ubootewargaming

Wow. Already new user made scenarios. Thank you very much.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: IslandInland

ORIGINAL: lecrop

I have opened a website where I will be publishing scenarios for this fantastic game, I hope you find it interesting.

At the moment there is only one, the attack on Convoy BD-5, but more to come.

https://sites.google.com/view/ubootewargaming

Wow. Already new user made scenarios. Thank you very much.

Reporting for duty!

[rahamy]

ORIGINAL: Delaware

After reading the "Getting started" I'm less sure if I will enjoy it.

"But how do I shoot? With your u-boat selected press and hold the Ctrl key and then right click where
you want your torpedo to go. A “fish” will launch and begin it’s course. Remember, your target is
moving, so you don’t want to shoot where it is now, but rather where you believe it will be."
Hmm do you just "Kentucky windage" it and shoot via eyeball? Or does your crew come up with a firing solution via a %? Sure sounds like the former.

Started document updated...the intent of the file is to get guys up and running quickly - with a detailed reading of the documentation to follow. We gloss over a good bit of detail, but that's not to suggest the depth isn't there in the game. Link below to the updated file:

http://www.johntillersoftware.com/Naval ... tarted.pdf

[lecrop]

Third scenario added:

Attack on Convoy AT-46 - 18 May, 1942: The convoy AT-46 left Alexandria consisting of five merchant ships, escorted by four destroyers that formed an outer ring and two corvettes and two armed whalers as close screen. The convoy proceeded in three columns, but owing to heavy seas and a strong headwind at only 4 to 5 knots. The poor speed upset the carefully arranged routing and brought the convoy to positions where there was the greatest danger from U-boats during dark hours instead of daylight. At 19.11 hours on 20 May, U-431 (Kptlt. Dommes) spotted the ships about 65 miles east of Tobruk, submerged immediately, passed close to the leading escorts and dived deep after firing two torpedoes at the biggest of the five ships from within the convoy at 20.19 hours. One of the torpedoes struck the Eocene, the leading ship of the port column, which was immediately abandoned by her crew.

https://sites.google.com/view/ubootewargaming

[Delaware]

Thank you. I bought it and already my wife yelled down from the bedroom, “what is that noise?” Sonar darling. Sonar

[demyansk]

Does the game keep track of your kills at the end? Just curious on what it keeps track of, looks good

By the way, does it have a scenario of Prien in Scapa Flow?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günther_Prien

You know, a u boat, serving on one of these was a death sentence, forget it, you need quadruple pay to be in one of these iron coffins.

[RFalvo69]

ORIGINAL: lecrop

U-431 (Kptlt. Dommes) spotted the ships about 65 miles east of Tobruk, submerged immediately, passed close to the leading escorts and dived deep after firing two torpedoes

"Dived deep" in the Med??

[lecrop]

ORIGINAL: demyansk

Does the game keep track of your kills at the end? Just curious on what it keeps track of, looks good

By the way, does it have a scenario of Prien in Scapa Flow?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günther_Prien

You know, a u boat, serving on one of these was a death sentence, forget it, you need quadruple pay to be in one of these iron coffins.

You can see a Victory points screen after the end of the scenario, a list of sunken ships, and you can check the map and all ships without FoW.

You can download the manual here

There is a scenario for Prien's Scapa Flow and a two campaigns, one on the career of Prien, and the other highlighting the changes in the Battle of the Atlantic from 1940-45.

ORIGINAL: RFalvo69

ORIGINAL: lecrop

U-431 (Kptlt. Dommes) spotted the ships about 65 miles east of Tobruk, submerged immediately, passed close to the leading escorts and dived deep after firing two torpedoes

"Dived deep" in the Med??

Of course yes. An VIIC U-boat has a Test depth of 230 meters and a calculated crush depth of 250–295 meters, and mediterranean maximum depth is 5.267 meters.

[demyansk]

Thanks lecrop

[lecrop]

Fourth scenario added:

The sinking of the Avenger - 15 November, 1942: In preparation for the Operation Torch, the Convoy MKF-1Y reached Gibraltar Harbour on the morning of November 14th before sailing for the UK at 1800 hours. The convoy came under attack 45 nm south of Cape Santa Maria, Portugal. Shortly after 0305 on the morning of the 15th, the convoy escort commander ordering an immediate turn to starboard, detecting a U-Boat in the area; U-155, under the orders of KptLt. Adolf Cornelius Piening was at that moment preparing to fire torpedoes, and was forced to fire from a considerably longer distance that originally planned. Piening fired two torpedoes at this longer range, and a third shortly after as the range closed. The first ship hit was the USS Almaack, she was hit as she steadied on the new heading, and moments later a second ship, the HMS Ettrick. The third torpedo struck the escort carrier HMS Avenger port side amidships at 0320. This was a catastrophic hit and the resulting explosion ripped through her Bomb Room and ignited the munitions stored there; the ship literally had her guts torn out by the resulting secondary explosions. The centre section of the ship gone her bow and stern sections rose in the air as her back broke; HMS Avenger sunk in under 5 minutes with only 12 survivors. The Commanding Officer, 67 Officers and 446 ratings were lost.

https://sites.google.com/view/ubootewargaming

[lecrop]

Fifth (and last for now) scenario added:

Nightmare Convoy - 19 August, 1941: Convoy OG-71 was the 71st of the numbered OG convoys Outbound from the British Isles to Gibraltar. The convoy departed Liverpool on 13 August 1941 and was found on 17 August by a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor of Kampfgeschwader 40. Starting on August 19, it became the first convoy of the war to be attacked by a German wolfpack, when reached by 8 U-boats operating out of Brest. Ten ships comprising a total tonnage of 15,185 tons were sunk before the U-boats lost contact on 23 August. This convoy was known as "Nightmare Convoy". Eight merchant ships, two naval escorts and over 400 lives were lost, including 152 from the commodore's ship, Aguila. The Aguila losses included the 22 "lost Wrens" (members of the Women's Royal Naval Service, or WRNS) who had volunteered for duties at Gibraltar. After this, Wrens were never sent again on passenger liners in convoys, but transported on HM ships.

https://sites.google.com/view/ubootewargaming

[Titanwarrior89]

Is this game really that good?? ON the fence and wondering.