Deck gun

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by Henry_pl

I may be wrong, but...

The idea of AP shell is to penetrate an armor and kill the crew inside...
...a TANK, not a ship

AP shell makes a hole not much bigger than the caliber of itself.
AP shell uses its cinetic energy to penetrate the armor.

Merchant ships didn't have armor, also their hull wasn't very thick- so high-energy shells were not that important.

High Explosive shell could do much more damage- imagine blowing a petard close to a sheet of cardboard.

No your not wrong
Only warships were armoured so no point to AP rounds
As someone mentioned there is not much ingame difference between the 2 shells anyway
They dont act as in RL