Dude, that recon camera thing blew my mind. I had no idea this existed! I already liked the Puma and the Greyhound, now I'll like them even more!

Recon tanks are me and my buddy's favorite. One time we used hit and run tactics against a Tiger, kept on getting his engine or turret, and by the time he turned to face us we had bolted away and he couldn't find us. When we came back they were repairing and we got 2 of their crew. After that we were able to drive circles around him and he got destroyed.

It's also great for defending the artillery since it mostly gets attacked by recons in comp matches. It's the ultimate antiflank weapon for defense too since it multiplies the area covered by only one guy

Great guide! My only addition as someone who loves this role. When you are on the move do it quickly. When you are stopped. Turn off your engine. Unless you engage the enemy with your weapons you will stay covert longer. The engine restarts quickly and the transmission will have you on the move fast.

Basically the scout crew have a big ass fast load bazooka with many ammo, a machine gun, and a wall hack. I call it, the rambo GI.

What sucks about the recon is switching seats. I have to cycle through all the passenger seats to get back to the driver seat after I shoot

It’s a shame that there’s so much that the community writes off recon vehicles and light tanks as useless because they either don’t use them effectively, or because they don’t like to take risks. Had a game of Omaha Beach last night where we proceeded to use a Stuart tank to get our team off the beach by targeting MGs and other annoyances. All we did was just dive five meters off the spawn and had another SL act as an additional spotter for targets.

Nice video, Mono - recon vehicles are great! Had a fun recon vehicle rush recently where we destroyed the enemy's initial supply truck, supplies, garrison, and Panther just in the first 5 minutes of the match. FYI for newer players, be careful about destroying enemy vehicles sitting in their HQ spawns; some servers will kick you for doing so. It's not considered very sporting, so I usually abstain from doing so unless we're on their last point.

It’s sad really as I could imagine a well coordinated team assaulting an area with the knowledge of any enemies and effectively eliminate them. People most often forget that having someone giving information is crucial as eliminating a tank/assault team from pushing through the defense lines. Without any information people often die or miss an enemy in their sights.

you don't have to be in the spotter position for it to recharge, BUT you DO have to hit the reload button for it to recharge.

Soloing a recon tank is impossible on console. The only way to change seats is to cycle sequentially, so you have to go through the extra seats in the tank after the spotter seat. I hope they have a work around for this in the future.

I really do enjoy the game, though, I hope that they spend some resources to polish it up a bit. I'm PS5 player and there are times often where the game is rubberbanding, laggy, etc... sometimes the tanks are undrivable due to this. I could be a real good game it just needs some tlc

After watching this video I just wanna open HLL and do some recon vehicle. This vid was amazing keep it up

just yesterday we managed 5 tank kills without getting killed with the puma and then we got stuck like a bunch of noobs :D

Nice guide! Will definitly be my way into the tank part of HLL. My only contrarian opinion is that killing empty trucks/tanks on the enemy spawn isn't very sporty and a bannable-offence on some servers I play on, just to keep that in mind.

The 'Radioset primary' reload of the 'Recon capture' in the tanks F3 (commander position) stops when you leave that position. This makes the recon-capture unviable for solo or even two-man squads.

I have been waiting for a recon one thx

I have been playing a lot of recon tank and Stuart when I can get a good 3 man, it’s the closest to recon tanking since they changed the hits form 3 to 6 for a large tank. It’s still effective but communication and keeping a cool head truly is so important. If your team isn’t giving you good general markers while pushing behind the point it becomes so scary. Would be interesting to see an updated video on recon tanks now, or with the advanced tips for flanking and raiding behind lines. I have been trying to raise the side seat awareness, picking up officers mid combat to build a flanking op or ferrying recon around to build garrisons and snipe. It’s the closest you can get to building garrisons as tank crew for tank. Love your videos mate! Always recommend to new players

Thanks for this - it's long overdue

I never neglect my sweet sweet puma/greyhound. I use them to drive it to enemy territory and cuck their supply lines and destroy their tank repairs I mean the Luchs, the stuart, the puma and they greyhound are the only vehicles I drive anymore as they're just much more fun and way more rewarding when you do get those amazing kills.

>Gets stuck on a rock >Get blown up by AT immediately

I love bringing either 2 Support classes with me from the Transport truck to get them behind enemy lines for a double drop somewhere or even just a Spotter & Sniper. I’ll Uber them to the Enemy Artillery so they don’t start firing off rounds as soon as the match starts. Although, I’ve only ever managed to do a couple times since it’s hard for people to work together

I didn't like them until I saw Wild Bill Jammin crippling the entire enemy team with a solo scout tank

The life cycle of Recon Vehicles Step 1. Respawn Step 2 Wait at the respawn point Step 3-6 wait Step 7 You are used to drive across the map just to kill artillery Step 8 There is a small chance that someone will use you if there are too many armored teams. Or if there are not enough tanks, then the weakest squad will take you and you will be destroyed quickly Step 9 Repeat

Very informative

Don't most servers have rules against taking vehicles in enemy spawn areas?

I actually think recon tanks have bad maneuver since they can easily get stuck in a ditch, trench or even a slope

Seems a shame there is not an option to use the much more numerous 234/1 with the 20mm autocannon. Every game out there always goes with the rarer puma but being a 'realistic' game seems like a missed opportunity here for an interesting option

Me and one dude were playing in a Recon tank, ended up sitting embedded behind enemy lines and in a forest. We murked 2 medium tanks and gotna heavy. Disrupted their supply chain and even took out their artillery.

Thank you for this. I will give it a try the next time I play.

I'm pretty unexperienced with armored vehicles and I'm afraid, that I get stuck in some trench, when I try to change my position

Wish it could at least take 1 round by a AT bazooka.. cause it takes 2 ap rounds to the front but 1 shot by AT guys in the front.

The intended use for recon tanks is to get the recon squad behind lines fast and safe then support infantry.

Can commander and SLs read the dots you scout from their own map? You know just like scout plane

Max camera range is 1000m. Camera dome 75m radius.

It always seems weird to me how most armor squads just focus on using the heaviest tank they can get. My best matches have been in recon vehicles. Driving fast through the enemy rear and destroying spawn points is fun.

Honestly. Just getting spotted by enemy tanks and making them stop their current task is already enough. Let alone sneaking their butt

Did they change the fact that you need to be sitting in the seat to reload the camera? It sucks, sit there for 2 minutes, waiting for a guy with a satchel to come, he runs up, you switch seats to GTF outta there and, need to wait on the camera reload another 2 minutes... Unless there is a dedicated observer, it is useless now, you can't even swap seats for 2-man driving

ill get killed by AT when checking locked sectors for garrys or looking for nodes. seems like AT always knows where the recon tanks are at

“When you’re comparing this to the other tanks like the Tiger or the Puma the recon vehicles look pretty bad” I think you meant Tiger or the Panther - great video though!

Instructions received o7 *proceeds to solo ambush a 76*

You've gone to the enemy HQ and killed their spawn vehicle Tiger in this video... bannable in a lot of servers, that. Obvious taking out enemy artillery and spawn vehicles in their HQ is the strongest thing you can do... :/

Nothing like carrying carrying SL or commander to important spots

I just assumed that weird camera view was a graphical glitch

I wanna do more with these things. Hit and run is so much fun.

I was the gunner in the beginning of the video

I use recon to take out enemy arty and raid parked vehicles/tanks at spawn points. Probably illegal but hey it is what it is. It will cost the enemy fuel and helps the team

Does a tank crew use recon vehicles or recon teams?

And you can carry infantry or deploy a recon squad

Thank's a lot. I have seen this photo tool but didn't know what was the function! The tutorial not mention at all..... why?

This doesn’t work on HLL for consoles as the reload on the observation camera stops when you switch seat. Additionally switching seats takes an atrocious amount of time there and you can’t skip the passenger seats.

Great info, thanks

Nice vid😎

Yeah you have to use it as a recon and not a tank. Most of the time I use it as a mobile turret, stay back and snipe people trying to attack

maybe they updated but I just tried and the recon camera doesnt keep reloading when i switch to gunner

Newb question, how do you know if you're getting hits when shooting into the bushes with that gun? I didn't see any hit markers, is there a sound effect that happens? 6:19

I agree with you in some points, however you can only kill bad tank crews / solo tigers with the greyhhound as nobody else would take two shots to the back without turning around. It's even arguable to me whether you can actually kill any good medium / heavy tank crews with the recon as the killed commander has to fail in most relevant aspects, most of all environmental awareness. EDIT: Obviously this refers to situations where the attacked tank is only under fire by the recon car.

Pretty interesting, thanks!

can anyone tell me why when i fired two bazooka rounds at a recon vehicle they just exploded not doing any damage, i know i hit both shots. i yelled out in proximity to see if anyone else saw, but a guy said i just didn't aim right. i am anti tank level 8 and i never went for "weak spots" (if there are any) on recons because from my understanding hitting anywhere takes 2 hits max. is this wrong? i was having a really crappy time playing so this put me over the edge and i just left.

You're surprised that no one uses it and then recommend only people that know the maps inside out and who have ample experience running a squad use it . .>

Great tutorial!

700 hours and I've just found out it has a radar feature ahahaha

"Don't play Recon vehicle until you are a good squad leader" Since nobody wants to play squad leader, that's probably why nobody plays Recon vehicle.

One other comment. There is NO hiding from the camera, not even in a house. It sees all.

i had no idea that recon vehicles could do that

Sounds amazing. Do you have to be in a tank squad to drive one?

The recon vehicles get so much hate. I love i using them when I solo

Hey No Armour is the best Armour XD I always play recon if no one want to join my tank crew i can solo it very good Also all the tip you giving i learned from try and error now i can solo it and get like 45 to 78 kill 😂

This is inspiring to work on recon. A Tankers role right?

Don't know servers YOU play on, but ones i play this vehicle is constantly in use and map is always glaring with enemy markers.

good info.

0:40 all the time I thought your name is pronounced "mono - special"

This was awesome!! #mindblown

I used a recon tank to take out two tigers within a minute. Got in on video too. It's an underrated tank. They'd nerf it if more people knew how to use it.

that world of tanks music tho haha hate that game

I use these tanks

the photo reload is a lie. Swapping seats will reset the "reload"

Except, no tiger i ever came across just sat there and took 3 shells straight in the ass. They are very powerful tools but will get blown up by a burning candle that is lit within 10 feet

What’s right click on ps5

Hi, what map is in the video

I saw you destroy a tiger at the base spawn. Is that allowed?

to be honest the picture ability is really stupid, puzzling how they havent come up with something better and more balanced. Could have at least just have a plane go over and temp spot enemy last known location,

Way too high stakes for me.

soundtrack at 8:30?

so recon squads cant use RECON vehicles? does this make sense to anybody?