tank morale - by buildings and woods

[Peterloo]

Hi
bearing in mind I play PBI every week (its the only wargame I play really)(apart from aerial dogfight) I like the rules
so
tank morale - a cause of morale is adjacent to buildings/woods with no adjacent infantry. - having friends(other tanks of your platoon) doesn't help.
Recently played a game , I'm defending and have 1 infantry platoon and 1 tank platoon at the start, tanks are sitting by a wood well behind my infantry and being shot take morale ! the tank concerned was surrounded by its brother tanks (one actually being in the wood) and yet it had to take morale. - this does not make much sense.

I understand why the rule was created, but I would suggest adjacent friendlies should count as a plus cause , the rule then only applies if the tank is on its own and gets shot.  which is more likely,

[Peterloo]

the rules on tank morale are not very clear
it sites 1 cause is being disabled - not the activating cause.
In our early games we took it at its word - 2 causes, no friends and being by closed with no infantry - 2 causes take morale - we had tanks being abandoned just because it drove past a wood !

Tank morale is really only 1 cause on being ko'd

[Smiley Miley 66]

Yes these scumstance are correct,but you forget that first you have to shoot at the tanks to force a moral test?

[Peterloo]

An interesting question on tank morale got asked last night and we struggling with the logic of it.

It states a tank suffers morale  if it has no friends in adjacent squares - so it ignores friends in the same square?
I say it counts friends in the same square - but it doesn't say that.

It's not logical captain.