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As we know now when a tank is demobilized ie lose a track or something. The only way to get it working again is with a logi truck. As engineers can only repair cars. But wouldn't it be more realistic if they could remobilize tanks but not give it more health. Eg tank gets hit loses track can't move and down to 30% health/armor etc. Engineer comes along uses his wrench the tank's track is fixed it works like new but is still at 30% armour. Also I think it would be realistic to give crewmen this ability seeing they would have to decide between ditching their tank in the heat of battle or staying still while one of them gets out to perform repairs.

They will still need to rtb or find a logi to regain health / armor. But this is just to get the tank back in the fight. It will be better for team work in a tank squad having to protect the weaker tank or whatever.

Your thoughts?

As far as i know you cant make the engie fix the tank up to 30% HP, you can either fix it untill its shiny new or you cant.

Engine limitations and so on, well thats what i know.

I just quickly looked through the *** list and searched for "repair", and no such thread came up, so I guess it's understandable that you did post this re-suggestion, not knowing about it being a resuggestion. Had you posted in the correct forum, however, the mods would've noticed it and wouldn't have accepted the thread.

Anyway, it's been discussed many times before. The tracking and such happens at a certain % of health. Repairing can only increase health, never fix only the side effects. Repair can only be limited by "ammo", and even that not with a handheld repair device unless it is actually "thrown" in some form. There have been suggestions, for example, about the engineer getting a new item that has limited ammunition and 'shoots' something that can repair vehicles very slightly. But the suggestion was rejected for it being impractical and/or abusable.

1) Changes to the repair mechanics have been suggested many times before.
2) Suggestions go in the suggestions forum.