Repeated heavy-gun fire produces little visible effect, and the modeled turtleback deck appears to be the reason Bismarck remains functional. Giving the British design the same scheme would test whether both ships could absorb punishment indefinitely. The experiment illustrates the protective logic of sloped internal armour and the danger of letting one game mechanic dominate a historical comparison. The design feature and the simulation's unusually strong implementation of it need to be judged separately.
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Why Bismarck's turtleback dominates the simulated duel
The game's turtleback model makes the German battleship extraordinarily hard to sink, raising a warning about translating simulated resilience directly into history.