Well considering ships in real life survived Uboat attacks and and made it back to port with severe damage and listing shows that the damage is about correct.
Toredoes and the deck gun are not a magic bullets.
I have yet to have a ship survive after an attack.
In my career I found the following hits are needed to sink the ships.All depending on where I hit them.
Merchants
1-2 fish for a small merchants
2-3 for medium merchants
3-4 for the heavy merchants
Warships
1-2 for the destroyers
2-3 for Cruisers
3-5 for the Battleships,Carriers and largest warships.
Now those numbers change if I get lucky and score a critical hit on the ship.Ive sank the Renown BB in Scapa with a single torpedo to the ammo bunker below the guns.Pure luck but it happens.
It all depends on where you hit the ship and if you manage a critical hit or not.Which is totally realistic.The stock game is an arcadey shoot-em-up with the settings it uses.
Now the deck gun is far from being an end all beat all weapon.
1. It was highly innaccurate in real life so alot of the shots would miss compared to the games deck gun.Also the gun was not stabalised as it is in the game
2. Some ships were fired on for 2 hrs by a Uboat's deck gun and still survived.
3. Sometimes it took 30 or more shots in real life to sink a ship.
4. Only 1 Uboat captain during the war had any real major successes with the deck gun.He was Reinhard Hardegen of U-123 of the coast of the US in early 1942.
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