Combat readiness

You may recall headline hand-wringing over low readiness figures for various units. This article discusses what that means, and why it's not nearly as bad as it sounds. Indeed, you may not want to score too high.

There's an inverse relationship between readiness and combat activity. Forces that go through combat wind up shedding readiness as stuff breaks, gets worn out, or gets used up. Any unit that managed to stay at 100% readiness would be a unit that never did anything.

The fact that readiness is below 100% means they're being made use of.