You'd be amazed to hear that tactical information wins most battles. As a platoon commander I would love to have as much intel from the battleground as possible. I would rather have two people on scanning duty during heavy battle than two extra people shooting.
Yes i agree.... thats basically what scouts are for (Forward Observer [aka FO]).... they are supposed to gather intel to minimise danger.......
Esp here on the ground with Aliens.
U see, i am sure alot of us (including myself at times) shoot on sight and tries to kill on sighting of aliens. What we are forgetting is in most SUCCESSFUL warfare, we sight an alien, then we keep track of it (And NOT shoot yet), gather up the big guys (the automatic weapons and snipers + assault team), ready and go in at one short. Yupz. Thats why real war experience is impt here, its practically practical.
What if you only had two people?
I would do the tactical wait for best opportunity - snipe and guerilla warfare......
But I'm against the scanner. You still can't distinguish between aliens and civvies, so you'll always have a lot of signals to chase. In some situations it might be too powerful, telling you which houses to skip.
Well well, u can actually. Civi's dun use strange metals (like aliens), they exhibit diff heat energies (since scanners are adv enuf, we assume they can make the difference, and soldiers are trained to note the difference). Scanners should also probably pick up the approx shape of the heat / watever bandwidth of the 'objects' (aliens / civi / even our own soldiers) inside .....
Sounds logical?
