Ability

Zero Company Combat Recon

Scans enemies and grants one Advantage for each unit scanned.

Preview-reported

Confidence: Confirmed
Verified: 23 August 2026
Version: pre-release preview build (August 2026)

What it does

A Fast Action costing 1 Action Point, usable once per turn. Assesses an area, granting 1 Advantage for every enemy inside it and revealing hidden enemies. Its range and radius grow with rank, reaching 24 metres and a 7-metre area at maximum.

Belongs to: Scout
Cost: Action Points
Ultimate: No
Tags: advantage-generator, information

Build value

Why it matters when you are planning a squad

The engine of the whole Advantage economy. Advantage is a shared pool, so a single scan across a droid formation does not fund the Scout — it funds whichever Operator has the expensive Ultimate. One cast against a tight group can pay for a Rocket Strike outright, which is what turns the game's biggest abilities from occasional to repeatable. The reveal matters less than it sounds: there is no fog of war, so it only finds genuinely hidden units.

Other Scout abilities

Sources

Is Z-COM our new X-COM? Star Wars Zero Company gameplay deep dive
ChristopherOdd · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 11 August 2026
Supports: 2:13–13:51 — Sweeping Salvo at 4 Advantage with three uses per mission; Hawks granting an ally 1 AP for 3 Advantage; Combat Recon granting 1 Advantage per unit scanned; the Grit Talent's stacking invulnerability; Heavy attacks taunting; the droideka ray shield; the Scout's Spotted status; Defense as flat damage reduction
Star Wars: Zero Company Hands-on Preview — XClones
Checkpoint Gaming · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 13 August 2026
Supports: Advantage section — the Scout specialisation having several abilities that accumulate Advantage at a rapid pace, and the Scout/Cly pairing; Cly's electrified darts and chained electrocution; the specialisation kit structure of one or two passives, an action and one Advantage ability; the Bond system's choice of one of three shared stat boosts; the randomly selected assist each turn. Published 2026-08-12

Costs, and why most are blank

A cost is recorded here only where a source states one. Most abilities have been named without one, and an inferred number would be indistinguishable from a measured one on the page — so the field says “not published” instead.

Every named ability

Build around it

The Squad Builder knows which abilities compete for the shared Advantage pool, and says so before you commit a slot to two that do.

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Editor’s note

Attribution resolved: this is a Scout ability. It was held unattributed because the sequence it appeared in involved Hawks, a Scout and an astromech at once, and the astromech has its own scan. That caution is now spent — the ability belongs to the Scout, which is what makes the class the squad's Advantage battery rather than a reconnaissance role. Relabelled 2026-08-23. It carried an official label on two hands-on previews and no publisher statement. The per-enemy Advantage figure in particular is a screen reading, and it is the number the Advantage economy leans on hardest — worth re-testing first at launch.