An earlier Bismarck-style game design used a turtleback scheme so effective that it defeated an 18-inch-gun battleship. The simulated design was lighter than the historical Bismarck, which makes the result unreliable as a direct performance comparison. Its success reflects how that version of the game modelled turtleback armour. A ruleset can give one geometry disproportionate protection and reverse otherwise plausible outcomes. Historical materials, layout, and damage mechanisms still require separate analysis.
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A game can overvalue turtleback armour
A remembered Bismarck-style trial warns that a simulation's armour model can make one protection scheme perform far beyond a defensible historical comparison.