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This isn't quite ASB, because there have been insanely lucky people, ships, and so forth in history, and British intelligence did some fairly odd things in WWII - and because no actual zombies are involved.

Let say that, rather than being badly defeated as in OTL, Force Z takes mostly cosmetic damage, that looks rather worse than it is. In fact, they look like they should be sinking, yet they keep on fighting. This happens again and again, in later battles, and a rumour starts among the IJN that Force Z consists of ghost ships, and thus, they cannot be killed. Sheer luck assists skill in making all ships of Force Z survive the war, though they mostly don't look pretty, and if they do, not for long.

British intelligence learns of this, and decides to play it up (golden opportunity for psychological warfare, you see).

So, what effect does this have on Japanese morale, British morale, and the war in general?
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