"non penetrating hit" ?

[Charles22]

I may be wrong about this, but this is how I have always handled it. The sounds make no difference, but that isn't so if you are correct, as I have always chosen to ignore them, but it does seem accurate to say that the unit doesn't receieve damage from anything but a thunk, but I also cannot verify that all thunks are indicative of damage.

The only way I have found to truly know whether there has been damage or not, despite any sounds there may had been, was whether the report mentions any asterisks. More asterisks would be indicative of more severe damage. No asterisks would be no damage.

This is a little more tricky when we are talking about the reports which state "extra penetration" occurred. I think it still sticks to the aforesaid rule of asterisks, but it's more difficult to verify that simply because there's much more data to read at that point and even at maximum message delay I cannot read it all in time. I have also not determined whether you will ever see an "extra penetration" message if the original round hasn't actually done any gamewise damage or not. I also cannot tell you whether these sort of messages are always accompanied by asterisks or not, but I can tell you that usually the original penetration isn't sufficient to cause damage, but "often" the "extra penetration" is.