Recon Patrol

[KnightFandragon]

isnt the Scout the recon guy in this game....isnt he undetectable unless you use an officer or something, hes got enough explosives to blow the hatch off anything.

[Crni vuk]

I rarely use the scout. hes not usefull in my eyes as I have no trouble to either spot him or he gets always spoted. I dont see what kind of advantage he has over usual infantry regarding hiding. Hes sometimes usefull when you give him a bazooka. But before spending points on the scout its mose usefull to use them on assault infantry or para troopers. But thats my oppinion. Or even go for the officers.

[Nikitns]

a scout armed with a bazokka is extremely useful. I once killed ~ 5 heavy tanks with it on a 600 game.

people are sometimes lazy, and let holes in their lines develop.

[CzaD]

I play GSM and I got used to buying single soldiers: a SMG, a bazooka, a mp, an engineer and a halftrack and doing all possible mischief with them (of course that depends on who I play against, coz sometimes I don’t have time to do that). So I thought it would be nice to have a mechanized recon handy in the squad buying section.

As to the scouts, what do you think about their stealth skills? I used scouts to great effect (there are no Scouts in GSM) by sending them near the enemy spawn area and being able to bombard enemy artillery before they managed to fire it and than later destroy enemy squads. I know that some players use them like that.

[KnightFandragon]

Scout Stealth skill I like it, although ive been screwed by it time and again I kinda think its awesome that the scout actually has some usefulness in game. Instead of being a lightly armed, hardly armored expensive cannon fodder unit who you send out and he dies in 2 seconds he can actually do his saboteur job well. That stealth is nice allowing the dude to really mess up your enemy if they dont properly place infantry....I dont ever place infantry correctly...Ive lost a match b/c of a scout destroying my T29 the last, no kidding, 2 seconds of the game.....I saw a BOOM and then the end game score screen...I also drilled me a T29 with a scout. So the Scout is nice, just kinda tricky to use and requires Microing like no other.

[Nikitns]

scout is impossible to spot if moving in bushes (only thing visible is the rattling of the bushes). and he also has crazy run speed and stamina.

[Crni vuk]

yeah but they can be easily spoted even on far distance sometimes (without officers) no clue how that happens though. Maybe some elite troops have a better chance of spoting something on the move ? LIke assault troops or paratroops maybe ? I mean it makes sense that a vet might have a better eye for battlefield then a usual grunt

*though I think realisticaly the real scout in WW2 was more the sniper. But I am not sure about that right now. It changed also sometimes from army to army. But many times snipers would take usualy that kind of role, particularly on the soviet side. Not cuase of their weapons though but cause they have received usualy a good training and had excelent battle awarness.