Tactical Recon Drone

Combat role

Unarmed air scout — zero damage, but Sight 5 makes it the farthest-seeing unit in any roster.

Lore

The Recon Drone carries no weapons by design, not compromise. Removing the strike package bought it what strike drones never get: endurance measured in days, a sensor ball that would be wasted on anything that shoots, and a unit cost low enough that losing one is a logistics note rather than a report.

Operators fly them in slow ellipses at altitudes where they read as birds on most radar returns. What comes down the encrypted link is the modern currency of war: column counts, revetment layouts, the tell-tale heat bloom of an artillery battery pretending to be a warehouse.

Staff officers in every bloc repeat the same aphorism, each claiming their academy coined it: the drone never killed anyone — it just told someone where everyone was. Ask the ones it found whether that distinction comforted them.

When to use

Buy Recon Drones early and often: Sight 5 reveals enemy build-ups, artillery positions, and undefended cities before you commit forces. Keep it out of reach of Fighters — it cannot defend itself at all.

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