Talk:Battleship Princess/@comment-27362593-20160521202426/@comment-27069434-20160531172832

As long as the fire director and the turret are both intact and there's the minimum crew required to operate them present, even a burning ship can retaliate. The odds are lower as per human factor and damage to the related sistems, but we've got a supernatural monstrosity here brought back from the dead by hatred and sorrows alone, which should say a thing or two about her ability to fight on even in the direst of circumstances. And oneshots are quite possible, especially if it's a 16 inch gun - a single AP shell at a steep angle through the smokestack to the machine room or a penetration to the ammo magazines/fuel tanks can pretty much decimate a ship. That, or a blast to the conning tower - which here roughly corresponds to the shipgirl's head - might leave her (or the warship's crew) stunned or outright killed, if it was a direct hit, thus a ship would be incapacitated.

Or it's just a bad roll as per "your dice and GM hate you" universal rule.