Improving recon?

[chriskessel]

It's early, turn 9, and I've been attacked by a neighboring minor. I spammed MGs to make a defense line and at this point I'm sort of stalemated.

My question/problem is the enemy units are all blank as my recon is in the 20-30 range. How do I increase my recon so I can try to find a weak point and start working to poke a hole in their line?

[maerchen]

Attack in cascades with expendable or armored units or bring buggys or motorcycles as these havy high recon values.

[Kadrush]

Avoid high casualities, it will reflect on the city hapiness and reduce your recruiting numbers. You just came out of an apocalypse cenario, people is a precious resource.

[The Spokesman]

I find Buggies and Bikes are must haves for recon. Maybe later there are upgrades with tech too.

[maerchen]

There are. Advanced sensors, after researched, get to be built-in all unit models.

[XuanKamoFurio]

bikes have more recon than buggies, but both are good.

[licker34]

Originally posted by Kadrush:

Avoid high casualities, it will reflect on the city hapiness and reduce your recruiting numbers. You just came out of an apocalypse cenario, people is a precious resource.

Can you elaborate on this please. I was trying to find details on how recruitment is handled, especially in conquered cities, where I seem to get zero no matter what I am willing to pay recruits.

[Thomas]

You need to switch zone from "Unincorporated zone" to "Regular zone" on your governor screen. Unincorporated zones are happier and keep their own culture but pay less taxes and provide no recruits.

[licker34]

I have switched to regular zone. Maybe it takes some turns to turn on? By some I mean more than 5+, not sure how many turns I played that game after I took the city, but it was a handful.

[Thomas]

Did you also remember to set "Recruit Sign-up bonus" and set desired number of recruits each turn ?

[licker34]

Yes, I even pushed sign up bonus to the max for a couple turns and set recruits to 500.

[Brother Pedro]

Just make more units. Granted some units are better at generating recon points. Each infantry unit (the 100 men unit) generate 1 pt of recon. Each buggy generates 5, while each motorcycle infantry generate 10. So as you can see to have more than 40 recon point so you can see unit in very dense hex (heavy forest, for example), you'll need quite a few none specialized units. Buggy is good, but you'll probably also want to push the enemy out of dense terrain so just arming 4000 infantry is also a good idea.