Recon Squad

[Igneous01]

Implement a way to drop a recon squad anywhere on the map, and when the squad is within 10km of a capture point, will provide threat information via live map. The recon squad would have an expiry time of say 2 hours before disappearing. Once the squad is dropped off it cannot be picked up again (so 1 time chance to deploy it).

The threat information it could relay could look similar to this:

Capture Point - Zhemtala Village THREATS: MANPADS, AAA, Tanks, Infantry Air Threat Level - High

[thebgpikester]

Partly overlaps #176 because the MOOSE capture zones gives updated F10 markers on when places are under attack, but adds a small amount of detail extra. I'd at least balance the effort on what this will give to a player versus what the markers will tell a player.

[Igneous01]

Good info! I could see it as a configurable unit (ie. if you don't want that kind of functionality in your game, you dont need to use it).

It could be something simple like:

Depot.Config.WarehouseContents =
{
   { Name = "Recon Squad", IsRecon = true, ReconDistance = 10, ...}
}

So if mission designer want's to include this special unit as part of depot contents they can, otherwise it won't be part of mission.

176 will display the status of zones, but like you said can be extended to include extra info from a recon squad for example.