17.5 Repair and Replacement Tanks that have been damaged and infantry units that have taken losses are able to make some repairs in the field and find replacements, respectively. All damaged tanks are assigned for field repair after each battle. 40% of damaged tanks can be made functional, but the rest are either too damaged for repair and/or scrapped for parts to repair the 40% that survive. Any infantry unit that has 60% or more of its soldiers killed or seriously wounded is disbanded, and its survivors are either sent to other units or rotated to the rear. Infantry units that take less than the 60% losses are assumed to find replacement men from disbanded infantry units or from new men brought up from the rear. Scrapped tanks and disbanded infantry units must be replaced from the unit’s reserve force pool. Replacements do not strictly come forward from “rear” areas. They are also supplied from the larger organization which your Battle Group belongs to. Even when surrounded, your Battle Group can receive replacements because it is assumed they are being sent over from company or division HQ, which has been surrounded along with your Battle Group. Battle Groups out of supply have reduced chance of repairing damaged vehicles or replacing infantry losses.