How can a 500t torp boat take 3k damage???

[MyTeitoku]

My 16500t pre-dreadnought can only take 5k damage

[AurumCorvus]

Not exactly. Yes, it can only take "5k", but BB hulls have a huge resistance modifier, meaning you can only inflict a fraction of the damage on it (usually less than 70% I think, but I usually play in the later years where you can easily boost it to 90% or higher damage reduction.)

The TB on the other hand, takes full damage because it has minimal resistance. Hell, even BCs have a good difference from BBs just based on the resistance stat.

[MyTeitoku]

No, the resistance has nothing to do with anything here.

Pre-dreadnought has negligible resistance. In this 1890 scenario, resistance is 60, which gives a mere -8% gun damage reduction.

[Evil4Zerggin]

IIRC each section has 100 "hit points" regardless of ship size; instead, incoming damage is divided by a factor proportional to tonnage + 5000. I'm not sure why they didn't just give bigger ships more hit points instead of dividing incoming damage.

Edited November 26, 2021 by Evil4Zerggin

[MyTeitoku]

On 11/25/2021 at 6:14 PM, Evil4Zerggin said:

IIRC each section has 100 "hit points" regardless of ship size; instead, incoming damage is divided by a factor proportional to tonnage + 5000. I'm not sure why they didn't just give bigger ships more hit points instead of dividing incoming damage.

Oh so if it's tonnage+5000, coupled with same HP for every ship, then indeed a lot could be explained.