The scenario exaggerates how much punishment its destroyers can absorb. They are more heavily built than their historical counterparts and may carry armour, although real destroyers often depended on speed for survival. The simulated sea is unusually calm, while North Sea waves could hide a destroyer and complicate visual tracking even at short range. A cruiser would therefore need to close further to make a kill likely. Cruiser accuracy also appears too high beyond about four kilometres against a small target, though fire against an equal or larger ship may behave differently. These caveats keep the tactical experiment useful without treating its mechanics as historical evidence.
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Where the simulation overstates destroyer durability and long-range fire
The game's robust destroyers, unusually calm sea, and generous cruiser accuracy distort both survivability and the range at which hits become likely.