Can someone explain

An undamaged vehicle which is damaged once or twice is lightly damaged

An undamaged vehicle which is damaged three times is heavily damaged

A lightly damaged vehicle which is damaged once or twice is heavily damaged

So sometimes it takes two hits to make a vehicle heavily damaged (one to make lightly damaged, one to make heavily damaged)

and sometimes it takes three hits to make a vehicle heavily damaged.

Can someone explain the rule and the logic behind it? Is there something I am not getting? Is it two hits or three, or why does it change?

No flames please, the question is sincere

Dan said:

Within one attack, you are looking at the number of hits and the results. The vehicle can be untouched (0), lightly damaged (1/2), heavily damaged (3) or destroyed (4). In a second attack upon the same vehicle, that vehicle might start out being lightly damaged and become heavily damaged (1/2) or destroyed (3). Or it might start out heavily damaged and become destroyed (1).

In the case of 2 attacks upon a vehicle, it could take 2 hits to become lightly damaged, then destroyed with 3 hits in the second attack, so needing 5 hits overall.

In the case of 3 attacks upon a vehicle, it could be destroyed with as few as 3 hits; one hit makes it lightly damaged, a second hit makes it heavily damaged and a third hit destroys it, Or 5 hits, 2 lightly, 2 heavily and 1 destroy.

I guess it's the quality of the hits vs the number of hitters, not purely the number of hits that count.