Yeah as Decimus correctly said it is a huge advance to the game.
For your info WernerSobe, in stock SH4, it often takes up to 4 straight on bow hits on a chasing destroyer to convince them to back-off and die. At the moment i don't have your mod installed but the new improved version everyone is talking about sounds like a definite must have mod.
Since Destroyers even without your current mod can absorb a lot of bow hits don't sweat it trying to figure out if your new mod correctly models damage etc.
If anything, since your mod models compartments that fill with water and not "total hitpoints damage' to the whole ship, bow hits on DD's will at least slow them down.
Which reminds me. One of the worst aspects of the "hitpoints model" in the stock game, is ship speeds too often seem oblivious to any torpedo hits that don't push the total hitpoints number over the limit and sink that ship. So i'd like to start to see with your new mod a ship slow down if a torpedo or two blast it's propellers.
It would be a useful crippling strategy to hit the props of ship if proper effects were achieved in the game. The strategy could shift the need away from having to have to kill DD's first to have free pickings of the rest of the entire convoy. We could shot for props, cripple several cargo ships and pick'em off later with the deck cannon after the DD's give up the search. . Destroyers always eventually return to the main fleet and leave the crips behind to fend for themselves.
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