Why I love this game.

[BobRoss0902]

Ok so I was fighting an enemy with who had bigger guns(and more), was slightly slower, and had slightly less armor. I set up my guns to be similar to Nelson's firing arrangement and used my higher accuracy to keep a good distance and fight him from there. I had a massive portion of his ship burning and I had flooded a decent portion of it, and killed his rudder as well. But then he scored a critical hit. He hit one of my magazines, killing my engines and leaving me down from 20knots to 6knots, as well as reducing my structure status as similar to his.

That's why I love this game, its that sense of chance. You can never really be safe or let your guard down no matter how well you design your ship or how "equal" footing you think you are with the enemy, because there is always that chance that he will get lucky and score a critical hit. Same goes for you, you never really give up until the end because there is always that chance that you will score that lucky hit.