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A little confused about AFV reliability. Manual says:

9.6. Aircra ft and AFV/
Combat Vehicle Reliability
All aircraft and AFV/Combat vehicles have a reliability
rating which ranges from “really good” (lower numbers)
to “really bad” (higher numbers). An example of a
5 would be an armoured car and a 45 would be a
Panther D AFV.


But I see in editor that all common German Pz IVs all have reliability in high 50s? These late model Pz IVs were very reliable tanks. I have about a dozen or more books that will prove it. So why does WitW make them so unreliable? I take it somebody spend time here with research? Please help me understand, guess the manual is not correct.

Or your understanding of what that number means would be incorrect.

Reliablity is a single digit number.

From the README:

ƒ¡ƒ¡ƒ| Rule correction (section 9.6) ¡V Aircraft reliability works as described in the manual, but AFV reliability works differently. The reliability rating of an AFV is actually two different items. The first digit represents the reliability of the AFV when moving (if only 1 digit is shown the 1st digit is assumed to be 0). The higher the number, the less likely the AFV will become damaged during movement. The second digit is survivability, and the higher the survivability the less likely the AFV will be destroyed in combat during a special survival check as opposed to just being damaged.

ok , cool
thanks

Wow, I missed that readme thing too. So wait -- low numbers mean good aircraft reliability, but for AFVs, high numbers mean good reliability?