got feedback from the 2 I sent this to and they had the same results - the PT boats took damage from deck gun fire and torpedoes
Now I have to finish the PT Boat (add the missing .eqp and .sns entries) and let them test it again. Then I need to make another ship from SH3 but this one has to have more than one hull. I need to verify this new method will work with ships with more than one hull. The PT boat only has one hull so I know it works with single hull ships