Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Major_Johnson

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ORIGINAL: RockinHarry

here´s some excerpt from the update.pdf file included with SPWAW versions up to V7.1:

Americans have the most reliable vehicles,
followed by countries of the British Commonwealth, the Germans, the Finns, the Soviets, the
Italians, the Japanese, the 1940 French army and other minor powers. Starting in January of
1942, the French using American vehicles use the American reliability charts. The Germans
suffer a sharp decline in reliability after 1943. Soviets reliability improves steadily after 1942.
Immobilized vehicles will now attempt to repair the damage each turn. In order to make the
attempt, the crew must be in the vehicle and not buttoned up or have any suppression. Since
immobilization damage can be as simple as a loose spark plug wire or as complex and time
consuming as replacing tracks, which can take hours, repair times will vary. Usually, however, it
will take an average of 20 turns for an experienced crew to affect repairs.

Reduced vehicle breakdown chances by one-third and weapon breakdown by half. Also
increased chance of repair for both (weapon more so than vehicle).

I have yet to see a gun get repaired in any version of the game. Kind of sux when your heavy tank is nothing but an expensive infantry transport since first or second turn of a 25 turn scenario. And in my opinion the repair time is way too long. And the Soviets got better reliability after 1942?? What version is that?? None that I've ever played.