2. In the POW case how is this not a critical hit.? With her own prop doing most of the damage. She also sustained 4 Torp hits and a bomb . She was not sunk by system damage at all but by flooding sure she had a lot of sys damage ( no pumps , steering etc) but it was the flooding that sunk her.
3. Even if all these ships burned that is also an issue. Not every ship burned when hit by gunfire... The surviving BB had 90 sys , 90 fire , no flooding the rest sunk immediately so we dont know.
ORIGINAL: Ryvan
ORIGINAL: bklooste
All these issues are covered by Critical hits ( The Suzuki was probably a faulty detonator POW ) ...In no case historically was BB Machine gunned to death which is what we are seeing eg 100 * a min of 1 damage Or in the above case 80-100 hits doing 90 sys damage.
You could argue a single hit could cause a fire which can spread and i would agree with you ( fire should be small but can spread and be affected by DC) but none of these were single hits and in no case was a ship lost due to non penetrating damage unless a fire or ammo explotion ( mostly followed by a fire) was involved. In this case you can get 100 system damage ,no fire and sink.
PoW did not burn and none of the bombs that hit her penetrated her deck armor. She was sunk purely by her "system damage." The torpedo bent one of the port propeller shafts. The now-unbalanced spinning shaft ripped a hole through her causing her to take on 18,000 tons of water. She could not pump out the water because the spinning shaft also knocked out much of her electrical systems. There was no fire. Her ammo did not explode.
Also, where are you seeing that they are getting 100 system damage and sinking without fire? In the example you gave in the first post, it looked to me like pretty much all of your ships burned.
BB Mutsu, Shell hits 118, heavy fires, heavy damage
BB Nagato, Shell hits 133, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Chokai, Shell hits 78, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Takao, Shell hits 79, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Shiranui, Shell hits 24, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Hayashio, Shell hits 19, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Kofuku Maru, Shell hits 12, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Turusima Maru, Shell hits 1
xAKL Kurama Maru, Shell hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Nanko Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire
PB Taiko Maru, Shell hits 10, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Saiko Maru, Shell hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Myoken Maru, Shell hits 11, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Kure Maru #5, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Keiko Maru, Shell hits 10, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Kamitsu Maru, Shell hits 6, on fire
PB Edo Maru, Shell hits 6, heavy fires
PB Busho Maru, Shell hits 8, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Yamafuku Maru
