High observation Rangers are essential for a painless scout mission.
A scout mission in Recon constitutes sending a team in the AO In order to identify a terrain feature. Since the end goal is locating and assessing a parcel of land, it's up to the team leader on how to conduct the mission. It is obviously safer to remain covert but most commanders will keep the door open for high payoff opportunities. A scout mission that suddenly becomes dynamic can potentially involve more enemies than were initially estimated. A team that operates in overt mode also dedicates less time to observation in order to remain fast and elusive.
Killcard Unlock: Remain undetected.
Tips and Tricks[]
- In order to finalize a scout mission, a team needs to find the critical location. This is represented with an icon on the ground that the team needs to discover like any other asset. Be advised that some critical locations (CL) are harder to find. A firebase emplacement is fairly easy to locate compared to a relay station emplacement. This is represented by the distance the team needs to be from the critical location.
- The critical location is very hard to find and is recomended to spam bird dog
Bugs[]
- If a Kit Carson spots the Critical Location, it will result in a mission failure due to it not registering as your Rangers spotting it. It is recommended to leave Kit Carson at the LZ if you have him activated.
- If a villager reveals all nearby assets, it will not count and you will fail the mission.
- If a Montagnard spots the Critical location, it does not count.
- If you interrogate an enemy and he reveals a nearby asset, it does not count.
- Over fly will result in a mission failure.
What the critical location looks like