New game announced - Destroyer - The U-boat Hunter

[iambecomelife]

Very interesting project; I found out about it a few weeks ago and gave them a shoutout on the Wolves of the Kaiser facebook page.

I REALLY REALLY love that they will include search and rescue functions!

One thing I never liked about the Silent Hunter series? Escorts not having to rescue survivors. In WWII this was always an agonizing decision for a destroyer commander. Whenever a ship was torpedoed - do we track down the submarine and leave the survivors to die? or do we rescue the survivors and maybe let the sub continue its attack? For all they knew, the same sub they let go could sink a battleship or troopship next time - costing thousands of lives.

I don't know much about US destroyer's interiors, but the pictures are quite lovely; I assume they must be highly accurate.

Also happy to hear about the "fog of war"/lack of omniscience. Too many games have up-to-date "radar screens" that give away exactly where each friendly or enemy is at all time. Although maybe something like that could be an option for beginners/low difficulty levels.

I hope there's a good roster of ships! To be honest I would really love to have seen a project focusing on British & Canadian units (I'm biased because my family comes from the[former] British Empire...lol. And the UK+Dominions escorts, of course, did the vast majority of Atlantic escort work, even after the US entered the war. Still, I'm glad to hear that other navies are a possibility in the future.

[Ashikaga]

Sounds interesting! Just hope it will not be like that movie with Tom Hanks.....

I pesonally would have preferred British destroyers but to play as a USN destroyer might also be nice for a change.

The British and Canadians took the brunt of convoy escort duties and most of the ASW technical discoveries and weapons were developed by the British.

OLtzS Ashikaga.

[Sonarman]

The first early gameplay trailer has now been been released, nice to see a very high level of detail and procedure here, the devs obviously learned a lot from their visit with the vets aboard USS Kidd ...https://www.facebook.com/11111841051...8894317072317/

[Artur Salwarowski]

Hi there!

We have just released the first gameplay trailer for the game. This is just a very short preview, but it should give you a rough idea of where this is going. Please don't forget to wishlist the game on Steam if you like what you see!

[Onkel Neal]

Wow, I really love the way they have set up the fire control and plot, looks very logical and useable.

This just became my #1 Steam Wishlist game.

[Texas Red]

This looks amazing!

I am pretty hyped for this game!

[trindade]

Added to my Steam wishlist.

[Kongo Otto]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

One thing I never liked about the Silent Hunter series? Escorts not having to rescue survivors. In WWII this was always an agonizing decision for a destroyer commander. Whenever a ship was torpedoed - do we track down the submarine and leave the survivors to die? or do we rescue the survivors and maybe let the sub continue its attack? For all they knew, the same sub they let go could sink a battleship or troopship next time - costing thousands of lives.

That's exactly the reasons why convoys had designated rescue ships for that task.
Convoy escorts where there exactly for one reason, protecting the convoy and attack U-Boats whenever possible.
When you rescue survivors with your escort you have to considerably slow down and therefore you become a target yourself.
Convoy rescue ships were equipped with all the stuff needed to acommodate survivors including a small surgery room, they were also armed with deck guns and AA guns and were not marked as red cross ships, therefore being legit targets themselves.
For more infos about rescue ships, feel free to read:
http://www.halcyon-class.co.uk/rescue_ships.htm
And how tragic it can end when Warships slow down to rescue survivors of a sunken ship you can read here:
Action_of_22_September_1914

Most famous of the WW2 convoy rescue ships were:

1. Perth 2258 tons, built 1915, in rescue service from 5 May 1941, sailed with 60 convoys, rescued 455 survivors.
2. Zamalek 1565 tons, Master Owen Charles Morris DSO, built 1921 as SS Halcyon, in rescue service from 26 February 1941, sailed with 68 convoys, including Convoy PQ 17 and Convoy SC 130, rescued 665 survivors
3. Stockport 1683 tons, built 1911, in rescue service from 22 October 1941, sailed with 16 convoys, rescued 413 survivors. Sunk by U-604 23 February 1943 while assigned to Convoy ON 166. There were no survivors from the crew of 63 and survivors previously rescued from other ships.