[Mobhack]

At this level - the battalion - recce vehicles aren’t really much use since their job has already been done for you pretty much. You know the enemy is in that direction, that he is here etc. That is because a battle in SP means he is there - there is no doubt about it.

Reconnaissance is a brigade and higher function - if this game was a corps level game then cavalry and so on would be of more significance, zooming off down the country lanes till they bump into the enemy, or out covering screens to detect an flank moves etcetera.

That being said - on large maps they can be handy to go out and find whee his thrust is, or to screen your main thrust in case he is trundling down your flank as you go to your initial point.

But chiefly - they provide cheap fast units which can blitz an unoccupied objective and maybe do a delaying action while you move reserves to deal with any problem they identify. A recce unit with decent armament can tear up say an opponent who made a move with unsupported APC infantry - like in BTRS for example - with no tank support.

But I hardly ever "go large" on light recce vehicles. Exception might be the South African bush wars, where I like to play Cubans v South Africa - a platoon of 37mm armed armoured cars and a platoon of tanks in support of a motor rifle company is a useful force, the tanks deal with 90mm armoured cars and centurions, the armoured cars eliminate enemy APCS and the occasional eland 90 or 60.