Soviet WW2 Submarines Simulation - Soviet Waterways Mod - Silent Hunter 4

[Kapitan]

Trying to get it to work been trying for nearly 3 weeks any tips on how to get the dam thing to work?

Using steam version of SH4

[DeepSixNiner]

For sure, you need to start with a clean install of SH4 1.5


Using the Generic Mod Enabler, install mods in this order :


Addon Soviet Waterway (v_111)
Russian_Voice_Crew_for_SH4
RussianRadio
Path SW v_112
RealMine_SW
Soviet Medals Mod
Arctic Sea
English_translation_LITE_SW110


Start SH4 and you should be good to go.


The mod "Path SW v_112" is version 112, an update to the campaign and a few fixes to game play.


Arctic Sea is a mod that comes with the Soviet Waterway addon, changing textures to more closely resemble the arctic conditions on the Kola Peninsula and northern Norway, where my current campaign takes place. There are two other texture mods (Baltic and Black Sea) which each give the simulation a different look.


The "Soviet Medals Mod" I found here at Subsim, and adds more realism and eye candy.


The "English Translation" mod was created for version 110 of the Soviet Waterways addon, but I have yet to have any issues using it on top of version 112. Although the translation isn't perfect, it's a very good start, and at least allows those of us not fluent in Russian to understand mission orders and radio messages.


A complete translation would be very welcome indeed, although I've looked into it myself, and it's no easy task.


Hope this helps. This mod has rejuvenated my interest in SH4, and given me a chance to play a sub sim in a genre I'm not very familiar with, allowing me to also do a great deal of reading about Soviet submarine operations in WWII.


My campaign in the Baltic did not go so well (struck a mine running from two Nazi torpedo boats at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga, and L-3 was lost with all hands. My appologies to Captain 3rd Rank Petr Grishchenko, who fared much better with L-3 in real life!)


For my second crack at a campaign, I've taken command of K-2, a big cruiser submarine assigned to the Northern Fleet at Polyarnyy. The weather up there alone is worth checking out!

[FireDragon76]

I've been playing this mod the past few weeks. I know some Russian, but the English translation is appreciated. Even as it is with substantial amounts translated, there's perhaps too much Russian in the game for somebody that can't at least read Cyrilic.



The north Atlantic is fun and not too hard, though there isn't alot of big tonnage there (mostly small cargo ships, rarely a tanker). Playing a Type M Malyuka "Baby" sub is really challenging, since it only has two torpedoes and the torpedoes are unguided (this was one of the most common Soviet subs of the war, that and the Type Shch (for Shchuka or "pike"). This is actually easier than learning to fire manually using uzo/TDC, since you just have to reckon the target's speed, then look it up on a torpedo table to get the lead angle, line up the ship with the target (preferably perpendicular), and fire a salvo of torpedoes, one right after the other to spread them out. Positively antique, but it works.



When I try the Baltic, my sub seems to randomly blow up. Perhaps realistic (I assume due to mines, but also perhaps due to a few nasty little torpedo boats I encounter), but potentially frustrating. My first impressions of the Baltic is that it's probably the most dangerous area I've encountered in any sub sim game. The water in some places in very shallow and there's lots of dangerous predators out to get you.

[Randomizer]

Soviet Waterways is probably my favourite SH4 mod if only because the situation is so completely different from TMO/RSRD, FOTRS, Darl Waters and We Dive at Dawn. If tonnage is your main thrill, you might want to stay away because shipping is comparatively rare.

I tend to succumb to aircraft or die from escorts in shallow waters in the Baltic but the minefields are pretty well marked on the chart. You need to stay out of them - or - make your depth about twenty or twenty-five metres and raise the periscope slightly (don't break the surface) to look for mines, mine-shadows and or cables. This means transiting minefields in real time, a tedious evolution but one that generally succeeds. No idea if this technique is reasonable or realistic but I recall reading of some US subs negotiating Japanese minefields doing this.

The ShSch Type V are my preferred mount in the Baltic but they are so slow to dive and it takes almost one-minute to make it to twenty metres. Once under though, they are very manoeuvrable and reasonably fast. I like the bigger L-Class in the Arctic but have not yet tried a career in the Black Sea.

-C

[uboot556]

I am the only one who has problems to download this mod?
eery link i tried is dead and i can not download it from everywhere

[Jeff-Groves]

Shouldn't this thread be in the SH4 Areas?

[Randomizer]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

Shouldn't this thread be in the SH4 Areas?

One might be forgiven for thinking that, yes.

-C

[OberstRaul]

Hey! Are there any working links for the 1.12 version/ most up to date version of this mod? Sadly the one in the video leads to an locked / lost soviet filehost
Would be awesome since I really wanted to play the soviet subs