How can ship Raming re-rams be stopped?

[JamesL]

When a ram ship rams another ship it pulls back a tiny distance quickly and re-rams repeatedly until the enemy ship sinks. This is absolutely unrealistic and against the laws of physics!!! How can the ramming ship pull out so quickly?! How after withdrawing barely a third of its own length can it build enough speed to re-ram the enemy ship!?!

I've tried several work arounds including cutting all backwater speed to 0, but to no avail....

Does anyone know a way to prevent multiple rams and make the ramming ship deliver just one blow?

[Karnil Vark Khaitan]

Isn't there still a ability which is ram/board?
what about removing the ram ability then?

[JamesL]

Isn't there still a ability which is ram/board?
what about removing the ram ability then?

I'll give that a go if I can find where it is.....

update: there isn't a ram/board ability - if you enable both ram & board tick boxes in naval units the game doesn't load. Likewise if you remove the ram ability from ram ships the same thing happens.

I can go no further. Unless of course a more experienced modder than me knows how to stop re-ramming.

[BladeUK]

Have you tired changing the ship_backwater_minimum_distance value in kv_naval_rules?

[JamesL]

Have you tired changing the ship_backwater_minimum_distance value in kv_naval_rules?

Alas Blade yes, I also changed that along with backwater_radius & backwater_speed all to 0 but it didn't work...