Talk:AFOH/@comment-24903406-20140605003436/@comment-13235970-20140610003137

I think the armor ring is just the basic physics of the game, the game doesn't read the ship as having a high toughness, but when shells hit the armor, they only do a small amount of damage to a few blocks that aren't supporting the ship in the water. It works much like a flying ship giving it a higher TRUE toughness than usual by making it so that the only blocks that are hit are the ones that aren't actually supporting the weight of the ship in the water, thus NOT causing the ship to sink.