Do underweight ships have better flood resistance ?

[hansandmg42]

I mean if your ship is a good chunk under max displacement, shouldnt your ship require more flooding to be sunk ?

[KOS762]

Flood resistance, is based on how many bulk head compartments you have and the quality of the tech, used on those bulk heads. Also, torp belts, anti-flood system, and how many layers of hull you have. Armor thickness helps too, if they can't penetrate your ship, well it don't flood. Small ships don't have much armor, so no matter what you do, a 15 inch gun will sink you fast, no matter what the tech maybe, as an example. Big guns win.

Try 8 battleships in a group and move around the map with those and you will see, nothing else matters. Just cannon fodder, otherwise.

[KOS762]

The only advantage an underweight ship has, is when you do upgrade it, it might not be overweight. It can also help if there is a lot of defects. The defects weigh more, so leave a buffer zone to accommodate that is helpful. But otherwise, your only handicapping your ship.

[KOS762]

Here is what I do.... I build lets say 10 ships.... all the ones that have defects, get mothballed, immediately. And allied nations buy them, instantly. Then I build another bunch to make up for those losses, with new upgrades. Some ships take up to 3 years to build, depending on what year it is. So by the time they get built, they are already obsolete. This is the norm.

[Hidden Gunman]

Do DD take longer to sink than BB, because they are lighter?

If you throw a witch in a pond, and she floats, does that mean she weighs the same as a duck?

Who are you that are so wise in the ways of science?

[hansandmg42]

Originally posted by Hidden Gunman:

Do DD take longer to sink than BB, because they are lighter?

If you throw a witch in a pond, and she floats, does that mean she weighs the same as a duck?

Who are you that are so wise in the ways of science?

Maybe resistance was the wrong term, i mean that the ship can sustain having more compartments flooded before sinking.

Think about a cruiser class with a total max displacement of 23000 tons.
A ship of that class weighs 20000 T while another is refitted and reaches the max displacement.

The cruiser that weighs 20000 tons should be able to take 3000 more tons of water than the other before it sinks.

[hansandmg42]

Originally posted by KOS762:

Flood resistance, is based on how many bulk head compartments you have and the quality of the tech, used on those bulk heads. Also, torp belts, anti-flood system, and how many layers of hull you have. Armor thickness helps too, if they can't penetrate your ship, well it don't flood. Small ships don't have much armor, so no matter what you do, a 15 inch gun will sink you fast, no matter what the tech maybe, as an example. Big guns win.

Try 8 battleships in a group and move around the map with those and you will see, nothing else matters. Just cannon fodder, otherwise.

I didnt ask for a tutorial i just wnated to know if an underweight ship can take more water before sinking than one at the limit.

[vanDyck]

Underweight does not mean the ship is as big as the other and just is lighter and can carry more "weight" in form of flodded in water.
Maybe its a bit smaller, has build in lighter machinery or something like that. Warships during the games time were not all the same, even if of the same class. Every shipyard used own firms to manufacture engines and other parts, speeds were different, lenght, widdth, tonnage were not exactly the same and so on. Take a look at the different max. speeds for the british QE class as example.