Talk:Tutorial: FAQ/@comment-1820055-20140430231547

#1 PROOF THAT SHIPS WILL NEVER SINK AT ORANGE HP

One of the unnoticed facts in the the game is that the devs prevent you from not having a flashship/secretary at any time.

You cannot remove her if she's the last ship in your first fleet.

This is also a secondary reason, why you are forced to retreat when your ship's HP is red.

You cannot advance, because the flagship (possibly the only ship in the fleet), is in the risk  of sinking.

And the devs won't let your flagship sink, because they'll never know she might be the only one in your fleet, and if she sinks, you'll have no seretary/flagship, which they don't want to happen for some reason.

Why they don't force you to pull back on orange HP flagship considering those reasons?

Because they cannot sink in orange.