User blog comment:HMSHOMEMADE1011/Prometheus invasion/@comment-24171828-20140828091759/@comment-11135771-20140828140938

Hansa does have an advantage, but just not a huge one. Even in game, strangely enough, Hansa ships don't display practical toughness as high as their listed toughness would suggest, often being only 1.5-4 times as tough as an equally sized vanilla ship despite having listed toughness stats tens or even hundreds of times higher.