Nope, I am against further enhancing warfare. Widelands is not about warfare and military tactics are to be on a absolute minimum that. Widelands should focus on economic complexity. Thanks for the suggestion though.

It was on Settlers II, and they were called "Scouts". His only action were explore dark zones around frontiers. With Widelands fog of war working, I think that could be usefull to have this unit to explore areas of expansion before building a militarysite to conquer that land.

I think that a "Scout" could be usefull for economic expansion because one could explore the zone and then choose if the new land is valuable or not. But having an "Spy" is completly out of context here, the scout remove dark zones but not fog of war.

I think I did not explained myself. I think that having a scout is good to explore land. But land explored by scout should be fogged automatically, I mean, the scout will see that there is a militarysite, or a road, or whatever, but you should not be able to attack because is not in line of sight of your buildings.

So, scout will reveal mountains, rivers, trees, and buildings, but will be under fog of war. I think that this could be possible to achieve. What other devs and players think?

Soeb wrote: Shouldn't he remove the fog of war as any other worker? When a geologist starts walking around, the fog of war is removed (only if there is any) around him (but it appears as soon as he moves anywhere else). The same should go for the scout. I think that's how it should work (and that's how it works right now, just that there are no scouts).

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Well, together with "seeing the enemy" you still need military buildings near enough. The attack area of "military buildings" is far bigger than the visibility area, though, so that would make it possible. Maybe one can "reveal" the military building of the attacker to the defender at the action of attack, so that the defender at least knows where they came from? Wouldn't help counterattacking, though...