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I like reading Army Field Manuals, tactical papers, etc. I have found that this game is so great than many aspects of real live manuals are fully applicable.

But there is a small part which in my humble opinion is really unreal. When I am thinking about the battle plan in the deployment stage your knowledge of the enemy force and deploy is nearly 0.

It is specially true in assault missions, I can't imagine a commander arranging his troops to attack an enemy fortified position without having check previously the enemy deployment, strong points, etc.

Obviously I always send my scout force behind, and after doing contact sometimes I rearrange my troops, but when playing a medium-big map with mainly infantry troops some times is impossible.

I know that it is very difficult to simulate this pre-battle recon due the game mechanics, just wanted to know how people live with it, which tricks are using (if any), ...

TIA