Kaluens,
I think the vulnerability of our boats is quite realistic. When I have to worry about a drunken merchant crewman with his daddys shotgun or some over zealous sailor with a slingshot rupturing my toilet paper thin hull, I'm thinking we are pretty close to real.
When GWX2 came out I posted about a coastal freighter that almost did me in with their AA guns.
I think really the game is gtg on realism. I dont think its realistic that a kaluen would issue the order to fight it out on the surface with a deck gun.. well, unless he and his crew were full blown fanatics maybe.
In both cases above, the boats and crew barely survived so they won the "dice roll". In real life, a destroyers guns would shred a boat, this we know...
BUT not if the hits were grazing shots or just plain not critical. I guess it could happen. I have seen photos on this site of real boats that looked like crumpled beer cans limping into port so who knows. :hmm: