Battle Damage
This section is intended to show the result of combat. Dominating the local pond comes with a price.
Last update: 10/10/02
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A Japanese Kegaro Class destroyer shows that she can take punishment as well as dish it out. Notice how few of the hits were low enough to let any water in. This ship was not sunk in the engagement.
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USS Houston is patched and ready for battle. Turn around time to rearm and patch holes is about 30 minutes for a Heavy Cruiser. A ship like this can expect to easily take 300 to 400 holes in a two day event if she survives. Although never sunk, The Houston has come back into home port after the battle with her anchors under water several times.
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USS Louisville showing some unusual battle damage. During the battle the B turret port barrel took a hit that prevented the rounds from traveling down the barrel. Succeeding rounds finally beat their way through the top of the barrel. Continued firing broke the damaged section of barrel off. An interesting difference about 1/72 scale combat from our 1/144th scale brothers, our ships being twice as big the Cruisers seem to take far fewer superstructure hits..
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A Small Itailian Destroyer riding low in the water. This is pretty typical of the damage after engaging in a sortie or two in a fleet battle.
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