Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "The development of the Naval Shell - Stop poking holes in my ship!" video.

I used to play the old SSI game Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic back in the 90s. It had a thick manual that was also a pretty good history book about WWII Atlantic theater. One of the tactics sections mentions that while cruiser fire won't penetrate battleship armor, it is useful for starting nuisance fires and fore taking out things like gun directors and other sensitive bits above deck. And that's exactly what I used them for. I particularly like 6" gun cruisers, which often had 12 guns each and a rapid rate of fire, so I could form them up, get in close, and pepper the enemy battleships with them, then when my battleships came into range I had the advantage since I was not busy fighting fires and my fire control systems were all still in good shape.
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@tbg3889 Probably need DOS Box to run it. If you can find a copy of the manual it's worth a look. In the 90s computer games came with good manuals.
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@tbg3889 It was called Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic. There was a follow-on to it that was about the Pacific war but it wasn't as good as North Atlantic.
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@karlvongazenberg8398 Also, we hopefully will skip "stop vaporizing my fleet with fusion weapons".
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