Recon Drone: Difference between revisions

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Recon Drone (tier 1)
Domain	air
Tiers	5 (see all tiers)
Attack	5
Defense	8
Speed	144
Range	40000
Volume	20
Build time	450
Cost	70 money, 10 food, 50 metal, 50 petrol
Upkeep	7 money, 1 food, 5 metal, 5 petrol

Recon Drone

Unmanned aerial scout that watches the skies for stealth aircraft.

Domain: Air · Role: Detector · Ammunition: none

Stats

Higher tiers of the Recon Drone are unlocked through research; each tier has its own attack, defense, speed, range, volume, build time, cost and upkeep.

Recon Drone: stats by tier
Stat	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5
Attack	5	7	9	12	16
Defense	8	11	14	19	25
Speed	144	144	144	144	144
Range	40000	44000	48000	52000	56000
Volume	20	20	20	20	20
Build time	450	531	627	740	873
Cost	70 money, 10 food, 50 metal, 50 petrol	80 money, 10 food, 60 metal, 60 petrol	90 money, 20 food, 70 metal, 70 petrol	110 money, 20 food, 80 metal, 80 petrol	130 money, 30 food, 90 metal, 90 petrol
Upkeep	7 money, 1 food, 5 metal, 5 petrol	8 money, 1 food, 6 metal, 6 petrol	9 money, 2 food, 7 metal, 7 petrol	11 money, 2 food, 8 metal, 8 petrol	13 money, 3 food, 9 metal, 9 petrol

Abilities

Detects covert air units (stealth helicopters, B2 bombers) within its detection radius, with a chance to reveal them on each scan.

Counters

Recon Drone has no hard counters and is not a hard counter to anything, it trades on raw stats.

Hard-countered units take extra losses and cannot retaliate against the unit countering them. See Units#Counters for the full matrix.

Production

Trained at the Aircraft Factory. Build time, cost and upkeep depend on the tier (see Stats).

Recon Drone uses no ammunition.

Movement and transport

As an air unit it can fly over any terrain, land or sea, within its air range.

Stealth and detection

Recon Drone detects covert air units (Stealth Helicopter, B2 Bomber) within its detection radius, with a chance to reveal them on each scan.

Detection is rolled once per detector scan, every 10 minutes; a successful roll reveals the army for 30 minutes. Fighting always reveals it. The research focus Detection Radius widens detection ranges. See Stealth and Detection.

Tips

The dedicated air detector: without one (or an AWACS / Strategic Radar) you cannot see stealth helicopters or B2 bombers coming.

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 == Stats ==
-Recon Drone comes in numbered tiers (Tier 1, Tier 2, ...) that are unlocked through [[Research|research]]. Each tier has its own attack, defense, speed, range, volume, build time, cost and upkeep. The box at the top right shows Tier 1; the table below compares every tier and is read directly from the game database.
+Higher tiers of the Recon Drone are unlocked through [[Research|research]]; each tier has its own attack, defense, speed, range, volume, build time, cost and upkeep.
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