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Looking for some type of vehicle for manually scanning the map in lieu of stationary radar. I immediately thought of the AWACS which is a type of aircraft with a large radar assembly and other advanced sensor suites that can quickly reveal large sections of the world map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDLIkfSLTmU (towards the end as far as i remember :p)

AAI vehicles warden is a car with a radar and few other support roles, it reveals a bit more than normal radar permanent coverage and has a reasonable speed

@eradicator interesting but don't see how that has anything to do with the OP your talking about endgame and honestly I have never made it that far so endgame stuff like that doesn't help my situation any

Already tried the warden It really doesn't have any speed at all and the weapon is not effective for anything other than stunning which basically means its impossible to kill or outrun enemies and it really doesn't reveal as much of the map as I was expecting.

mikeloeven wrote:@eradicator interesting but don't see how that has anything to do with the OP your talking about endgame and honestly I have never made it that far so endgame stuff like that doesn't help my situation any.

You asked for "some type of vehicle" for "manually scanning the map". That's pretty much what that train does. And you didn't say anything about early-game/end-game. So i thought it a rather fitting joke :p.

In 0.17 adding a radat to a vehicle might become somewhat feasible. Right now it's not really nicely doable due to power-constraints. Also i'm not really good at sprite mashing. And this requires proper graphics.

You didn't say anything about outrun enemies, and the Warden was not created to be used alone...

You should use AAI Chaingunners or Laser Tanks as an escort, just make them follow you with AAI's remote control (click on yourself) and you can run controlling a single vehicle while the group smashes any enemy at their range. 2-3 Chaingunners early game or 6-7 Lazer Tanks a bit later will smash most bitter bases while the Warden keep them alive with repair packs

If what you really want is the speed you can use Aircraft's jet or AAI's Flame Tumbler and make the Warden follow you opening the map. IMO anything stronger early game would be overpowered