As we all know, the WitP "progressive flooding" model had no parallels in real life. Errrr....
No progressive flooding - just sudden and catastrophic structural failure... lots of stuff not modeled in WITP, like spontaneous magazine explosions destroying a BB, or ammo ship blowing up and taking numerous boats and a couple of ships with them, or grounding of ships which either destroys them or takes them our of action, collisions between ships, typhoons that sank multiple ships, etc., etc.
Most players would scream bloody murder if a CV grounded during operations (yes, it happened), or a BB blew up (again, it happened), or one of the ALMOST DAILY mishaps that occurred operationally during the war on both sides that routinely severely damaged and/or destroyed hundreds of smaller vessels through the war.
One of the precursor games to WITP had a pretty nice weather model - and you picked up more SYS damage in a hurry if you were sailing in it. It DID make it nice to sneak in a carrier group behind a weather front, though. [:)] However, i think we'll have to wait for WITP II for this to happen.
