Recon Status

Units with enhanced abilities to locate and identifying enemy units. The term "Recon" is short for "Reconnaissance" and in military terms it's the act of gather intelligence about enemy activities, strength and numbers.

In *War of Tactics* units marks with Recon status will have a higher chance of discovering and identifying enemies, which allows themselves or other units to have the first shot. Recon units are great for acquiring targets for other units, specially artillery benefits from units pointing out targets.

## Recon Mechanics

When a unit with Recon status initiates spotting on an enemy unit as an action, they will roll as normal units but with a +1 to the result. This also means they can spot enemies further away while remaining outside of enemy activity.

Recon come in 3 types Infantry, Vehicles and Aircraft

## Recon Infantry

The cheapest and most basic Recon unit is any infantry unit upgraded to *Recon status.* These infantry units can be of any type from simple Militia units to hardcore Elite units. Recon Infantry are best used from static positions or slow advancing armies, as movement over 15cm/turn hinders their ability to identify and relay enemies. Transport via. truck or plane does not allow the infantry to spot enemies.

Recon Infantry effects a units combat effectiveness however.

* Group size is limited, 5-8 soldiers. Can be equipped with Technicians (unless it's a militia) and Officers, however they do not get the upgrade and can still leave the group at any point.
* Recon have acces to sniper rifles (an option in the infantry arsenal) it is not standard equipment and must be bought from the infantry arsenal.
* Recon units are limited to SMGs, (auto, semi, bolt)Rifles, handgrenades and are equipped with pistols which can be used in melee.
* Upgrading infantry does not prevent them from using other upgrades such as *Cavalry, bike* or *skies.* Paratroopers can also be upgraded to Recon status.

The price is A x (B + 1) Point with A being the number of soldiers in the group, B being the price pr soldier in question.

Example 1:

5x militia units are upgraded to Recon status to scout the field more efficiently. The individual militia is worth 1 point by default meaning we have 5 soldiers, worth 1 point each and each cost +1 point from the upgrade. 5x(+1) = 10 Points.

Example 2:

A player in control of an Elite infantry 8-man platoon with an *Officer* added, believes in the "first shot doctrin" and wants to improve their chances in the field. Each soldier is 4 Points and the officer is 10 Points. 8x(4+1) + 10 = 50 P

## Recon Vehicles

Recon vehicles act like any other vehicle. Recon vehicles are noted separately from other vehicles to prevent confusion. Only vehicles or variants of vehicles noted under the "Recon section" count as proper recon. This does not prevent the player from using whatever truck or tank available to scout for enemies but only purpose dedicated vehicles gets the +1 to spotting.

Recon vehicles can be anything from simple motorcycles limited to an SMG for self-protection, up to and including armoured cars capable of dealing with enemy light tanks. These are often rather light units with high speed and the occasional anti-tank gun. While their primary mission is not to destroy the enemy, they are fully capable dealing damage.

Motorcycles and jeeps will always at least have and SMG which can be enough to harass enemy infantry who cannot get away, trucks which cannot defend themselves or artillery which is highly vulnerable to damage. It is common to see Motorcycles upgraded with a sidecar & LMG which also allows the use of hand grenades while jeeps from all nations have a whole slue of different configurations and guns available.

## Recon Aircraft

Recon Aircraft are uniq in multiple ways, they do not follow the norms for spotting enemies and they are noted as their own type of aircraft rather than falling in as either a *Fighter* or *Fighter-Bomber* (or a Bomber and transport for that matter) the majority of them are armed and fully able to defend themselves, take down enemy planes or perhaps even attack and bomb ground units, this is a benefit rather than their main purpose.

Recon planes spot after a different norm than ground vehicles and they are the only aircraft type to communicate. (not including special purpose aircraft) However they communicate with an active HQ which can relay informations rather than speaking with the ground units below. The spotting radius depends on the planes current attitude, it only spots one unit at a time like any other unit.

* At low attitude - 50cm spotting radius
* Medium attitude - 30cm spotting radius
* High attitude - 15cm spotting radius

Units on the ground are spotted on 2+ by default, however the 2+ is effected by unit's profile and rather it is camouflaged or not.