Whats the life expectancy of scouts ?

[Klinkenhoffen]

While I have played Steel Panthes for a while it is only recently that I have been playing PBEM.

In that short time I have learnt the importance of the scouts. I have changed tacked now. Move slow and don't shoot ( except Mother that silly click of the mouse in my last turn at your Tiger. I didn't mean to do that. Dohh).

I also like snipers. Fairly good spotting, can call in the arty and take the occational pot shot.

klinkenhoffen

[Irinami]

Scharfschütze, are you an Armored Cavalry kinda' guy or what? There's a man who understands that A-Cav and Recon's job isn't to "drive ahead until they blow up--that's where the enemy is!"

Maliki, set your Scouts' Op-Fire range to 0 (easy way to do this is to go to the Platoon Commander and choose 'Change whole formation,' then set their range to 0. Note that Company commanders will only change themselves--ie, "Whole Formation" only counts for that letter of units, eg E0-E9, not E-I Pl's.). Part of the spotting routines rely on opfire range of the person you (or they) are trying to spot. If you're really paranoid, turn off the unit's weapons too. I too hated scouts until I learned this. Now, I have scouts that can eat the rations right out of an enemy unit's pocket without being spotted!

Like rbrunsman, my scouts would live long and prosper if I didn't have that itchy trigger finger.

[Raskolnikov]

Originally posted by Irinami
There's a man who understands that A-Cav and Recon's job isn't to "drive ahead until they blow up--that's where the enemy is!"

That's the job of those M4s.

Rask.