[PatG]

Monty's Moonlight would be best simulated by changing the overall visibility of the whole board.

Paraflares and illumination rounds could be simulated by aerial recon missions - though that will trigger the opositions AA fire which may be giving the player too much information. Something might be workable too with 0 size cargo planes and 0 man high vision para units.

Trip flares can be seen as 1 point mines - they let you know something is out there to use area fire against.

For set piece scenarios, it may be possible to use a variation of the 0 man ammo carrier demolition charge reinforcement. Make a unit with high vision rating and 0 men, set to appear on a given turn and it might last long enough to give you some intel before it dies. Have to play test this one.

Another option would be to use a zero move low survivability unit as as sort of tripflare/illum round. A while back I made a rather fanciful scenario Gruinard that featured a gamekeeper and his two dogs. The dogs weren't armed at all by they let the British player know where the Falschirmjaeger were. A refinement would be to use Pyros' movement path work to lay out a patrol route for a set of unarmed recce units - this could simulate a line of flares along a tree line for example.


Anyway there's a few thoughts to play with.