Reconnaissance

But then when I got there, immediately they had said, "All 11 Bravos, we're gonna be going to a, uh, recon squadron of half 19 Delta Cav Scouts, half 11 Bravos." So that was my introduction to the Cav, was, uh, from day one kinda being in a, a squadron in a troop versus a battalion and a company.

Uh, they called it RSTA, uh, Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Target Acquisition.

Uh, we were more of like the tip of the spear when it came to reconnaissance.

Uh, a lot of times in the previous wars it was a little easier for a Cav to kinda go without necessarily getting into contact.

But for win rate purposes, kind of just using this last weekend as an example, our best performing dispositions are Recon, Purge, Pryo, and Taken Hold, and they're all pretty close together to one another.

And then 5% below them is Disruption at a 47.9% win rate, with Reconnaissance having a 52.6, tied with Purge at a 52.6. And then both Pryo and Taken Hold having 41% win rates.

Most of the event wins are in Purge, which makes sense, as Orcs had most of the event wins over the weekend, and they play a lot of Purge.

There are nine event wins in Purge, and then two in each of Reconnaissance and Taken Hold, and then one in Priority Assets, with Purge having a 1.85 over rep, and then essentially a one over rep for each of Priority and Reconnaissance.

Taken Hold is a 0.58, and then Disruption is a 0.4, with no event wins, a single top four to its name, and two top 10s.

So clearly disruption is kind of having a bad day.

The Horde, I'm less concerned about.

But, like, Necron's Hyper Crypt, where every turn, and you're playing Reconnaissance, and the matchup into Taken Hold, which is the Force Disposition I ended up choosing for the list that I rattled off...

The way you score points is you get six points a term for just being in all four corners of the board.

To Steve's point earlier, especially with the new 8-inch instead of 9-inch screening that you get, I don't know that I have a way with my list to be both in the center of the board and keeping you out of my deployment zone.

Nice.

I think them going to Reconnaissance is potentially good, right?

Yeah, so Aspect Host now has Priority and Recon.

So yeah, Recon is probably the better disposition for the type of army you will end up building because you probably get to that 15 unit mark potentially with MSU.

But the Warhost dropped 2DP, which obviously opens up some options.

Aspect Host gained Reconnaissance as another one that's potentially quite interesting.

There's just some kind of points cut, especially on some Harlequin stuff as well.

I think Solitaire, which Owen and our team is very excited about, went down 10 points.

Sabotage started on the rail lines into the city, and communist gunners began firing on trains under Marine Guard.

On October 5th, Reconnaissance patrols working the Tientsin Piping Road counted 36 roadblocks scattered along the route, every one of them unguarded.

The road blocked so thoroughly that only jeeps could pick their way through.

The next day, engineers went out to clear them, a rifle platoon riding along for protection.

What the leaked State Department cable didn't acknowledge was the US government's own extremely sensitive relationship to the unit.

The CIA had a direct relationship with the unit, training one of its companies known informally as the Recce Squad.

As the Foreign Office's internal report from 1986 reads, the paramilitaries are the country's third force and looked upon as the president's insurance policy should there be unrest in the armed forces.

The Recce Squad is one of the General Service Unit's four main divisions and also is most secretive.

Its real name? is the recce company whose base lies in a rural town 20 miles east of nairobi i found that it is one node in a web of cia-led paramilitary relationships that changed omar faraj's family's life and many others forever The CIA has a long history of covertly working with paramilitaries across the world through its Special Activity Center.

Sometimes the foreign commandos they sponsor act as proxies, answerable to the host government.

And you'd be right.

So what did the disease and its causes look like in Kenya? As I investigated, I learned that the CIA Surrogate Force was established in 2004 in partnership with the Kenyan government.

But they're gonna be out there and they're gonna need some integration capabilities, largely that is being normalized across the rest of the staff.

On an army formation, the intel, function helps with space-based ISR, or Intel Surveillance and Reconnaissance.

The communications team will help with satellite communications and planning for that.

So those are other staff sections that really are using the space capabilities directly.

And they were just in there wreaking havoc the entire fucking time.

And I get into, like, the different major battles they had, but... uh that this unit's called merrill's marauders uh general merrill was a guy in charge and this would later go on to become the 75th ranger regiment so this is like the predecessor to the 75th rangers so these guys were functionally special forces at the time and he was selected because of his experience inside of the dangerous mission they asked for volunteers for another more dangerous mission inside the dangerous mission nobody volunteers so he gets voluntold you're the guy he is the platoon leader for the ir platoon for the whole element, INR's intelligence and reconnaissance.

So he's a scout platoon.

So he's like 30 miles ahead of the rest of this element.