True,

Just played with a frigate and ship of the line vs an AI frigate and sol...

I got my sol with its first broadsite in half ruler range of the AI frigate that still was near its sol,
The outcome was that the frigate only needed one more damage point to the hull ... My sol got return fire from first broadsite of the AI frigate and AI sol and lost half its hull and crew....

The next couple of turns the AI frigate had to sierende rand my Sol surrendered to the AI sol due to crew loss after being in musket range of each other...

My frigate undamaged took on the AI sol that by now had a half damaged hull and some crew losses....

Few turns later my frigate came victorieus out of the fight after the enemy sol lost more than 90% of its hull but surrendered due to crew loss.

My frigate lost more than half of its hull by the time and had some crew losses...

I very tense battle of which the outcome could have gone either way!