[REL] Ship damage from fires

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Capt. Morgan

Started 2 fires on a Med. Modern Composite Freighter with the single 20mm - doing as little damage to the ship as possible, then i just followed the freighter for 24hrs (game time). Still afloat and burning, with no reduction in speed at that time (clean install of SH4 - 1.5 with no other mods).

Repeated. this time the freighter slowed from 5 kts to 1kt in the first 3 hours, but did not sink after 24.

Third test: started a fire but this time with 4 shells from the deck gun. Followed the burning ship for 1 hr., then started a second and third fire with the single 20mm. Ship sank by flooding while I was starting the third fire. I've never sunk a freighter with a 20mm before.

The fires do not seem to be enough to sink a medium sized freighter by them selves, but do seem to amplify other damage done to the target. Very nice!

As the mod was made with SH5 damage model in mind the SH4 damage model and ship available HPs will most likely be completely different. Thus it's quite possible that the SH4 version needs to be tweaked for SH4. I don't play SH4 (only SH5) so someone would need to do this