Area damage on ships?

[FroMcJoe]

Here is my idea: Lets say a wall of fire hits the engines of a battleship. The engines would blow up and either destroy the ship in the process or cripple it (in the sense that it can't move). This could be done other places too. For example enough fire into the bridge kills all of the officers and the ship fires more slowly and turns slower as a result. You could do this with other spots on ships and on any ships but it would be a big under taking to make it work. Like I've heard that people are mad that you can't shot off the torpedo launcher in ships that have tubes so what if you hit the tubes enough the torpedoes stop firing. I think that this would be an interesting idea and could make epic stories in RP (think the fairy swordfish that crippled the torpedo with that one lucky torpedo to the rudder). Since people in their fiction about there characters have said stuff like 'a torpedo from a Rouge bomber hit my liberty gunboat in the fire control center which killed one of my gunners and i limped back to base with a big hole in my haul" because right now I think that it is unreasonable that this massive battleship can have practically no health left and is still more or less in the same fighting shape as it was before. This could really add to the meaning of "limping back to base" so what do you guys think. It may be impossible but I think that it would add a lot to the gaming experience. If it does work the next step would be to make individual pieces of ships to break off besides some of the winged fighter craft that already do.