While waiting for my boxed sets I decided to download and look at the translated cards, and I noticed Baptiste Valombre has the "scout" special ability, but the translated quickstart rules refer back to the main rulebook. Does someone out there have a translation as to what that ability does?
scouts are used only on the terraformation part of the game in wich players place terrain previous to the game
in a nut shell. it give you the oportunity of kind of tailoring the terrain to your advantage/disavantage depending who use his scouts better ...
will need to wait for he english edition or that Asmodee give the all clear to the fan tras lated one
To give you a little more to go on :
Each Scout your warband has gives you a small advantage in the terraformation phase, when each player bids tokens for each zone. Out of the top of my head, you can use them to force your opponent to bid before you do, or to reveal one of their bids, amongst other things.
In addition, in some scenarios, scouts allow you to move objectives by a couple of inches. If that is the case, it will be explicitly mentionned in the "set up" part of the scenario text.
For your home made scenarios, if you're playing without terraforming (which you probably are if you haven't build much terrain items yet) I would strongly suggest that you find a similar use for the scout skill (though not game breaking) so that armies that have scouts in them can benefit from the skill.