Fuel exhaustion and structural damage complicate defeat

With Russian ships running short of fuel, the remaining plan is to keep moving until their performance collapses. The low hit rates make that endurance contest plausible, but the torpedo boats hold their weapons until a point-blank opportunity and then miss. The Russian battleship nevertheless sinks from accumulated structural damage rather than one dramatic hit. The result screen records an Austro-Hungarian defeat even though Russia loses its battleship and several cruisers, so tactical losses, exchange ratios, and scenario victory conditions do not tell the same story. The closing phase separates fuel endurance and damage accumulation from the formal battle outcome.