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Originally Posted by Anthony
It means inadequate damage by large weapons.
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Not really, even cruisers do not get destroyed by single hits(unless hit in a critical location) though the armor and in GURPS standard rules they would be destroyed so scaling it so that they do not would seem more correct.
Basically if you read any World War 2 combat account against things like cruisers and destroyers that are hit by larger ships main weapons, the hits clearly penetrate the armor and yet do not destroy the ship instantly in most cases.
As a random example because I happen to have watched a youtube video on the battle and then looked into it further: Battle of the River Plate in 1939. The heavy cruiser Exeter was hit seven times by Admiral Graf Spee and damaged severely but survived and was capable of returning to Port Stanley for emergency repairs.
In standard Gurps rules the 28cm shot would have easily penetrated the armor and thus a few hits would have caused enough hit point damage to destroy it at only 1024 HP or at least to make it dead in water.
There are plenty of other situations where the armor was clearly not enough to severely limit the damage and yet the ships took many hits by large guns and survived.