Explain information visibility and recon (#8446)

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                { label: "Who You Command", slug: "concepts/command-authority" },
                { label: "Eagle Round Flow", slug: "concepts/eagle-round-flow" },
                { label: "March and Battle Timeline", slug: "concepts/march-timeline" },
+                { label: "Information and Recon", slug: "concepts/information-and-recon" },
                { label: "From Eagle to Shardok", slug: "concepts/eagle-to-shardok" },
                { label: "Shardok Battles", slug: "concepts/shardok-battles" },
                {
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 ## Simultaneous Information

+For a focused explanation of public, hidden, and potentially stale observations, see [Information and Recon](/concepts/information-and-recon/).
+
 The important habit is to think in phases, not in a fully visible turn order.

 If two factions both issue orders during Player Commands, those orders belong to the same command phase. When the phase ends, each faction receives the filtered results it is allowed to observe. Your own actions are visible to you. Allied and nearby events may be visible depending on game state. Enemy actions may be hidden until scouts, battles, diplomacy, or later consequences reveal them.
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 - [Victory and defeat](victory-and-defeat/) explains the strategic objective, leadership succession, faction destruction, and how the game ends.
 - [Who you command](command-authority/) explains faction heads, faction leaders, vassals, province turns, and direct control.
 - [Eagle round flow](eagle-round-flow/) explains how a strategic round advances, why actions are simultaneous, and when players see results.
+- [Information and recon](information-and-recon/) explains public, hidden, scouted, and potentially stale knowledge.
 - [From Eagle to Shardok](eagle-to-shardok/) explains how strategic movement turns into tactical battles and how battle results return to Eagle.
 - [March and battle timeline](march-timeline/) follows one army from order submission through arrival, battle, and aftermath.

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+---
+title: Information and Recon
+description: Public, private, stale, and scouted information in simultaneous Eagle rounds.
+---
+
+Eagle does not give every faction a current view of the whole world. Results are filtered by province control, faction knowledge, scouting, diplomacy, alliances, and battle participation.
+
+## Three kinds of uncertainty
+
+- **Not present:** the game state confirms that something is absent.
+- **Not visible:** it may exist, but your faction has not earned that information.
+- **Known as of a date:** your faction observed it previously, but simultaneous actions may have changed it.
+
+A blank enemy field can mean that the value is not visible; it does not necessarily mean the value is zero. An old observation describes the recorded date rather than guaranteeing the current state.
+
+## Province information
+
+Public province information can include identity, ruler, known events, known incoming armies, and an **as of** date. Full local information adds resources, caps, support, food consumption, battalions, heroes, orders, shipments, and events.
+
+Controlling a province normally gives your faction its detailed state. Losing control does not mean every remembered fact remains current; the date tells you when the displayed knowledge was established.
+
+## Simultaneous orders
+
+Enemy factions choose during the same phase. Between an observation and a later arrival, a province may receive troops, change ruler, form a truce, or launch its own army. Observing a target does not reserve or freeze its state.
+
+## Strategic Recon
+
+Recon requires an eligible Ranger and targets a province not ruled by the acting faction. The command creates pending reconnaissance rather than instantly granting omniscience. Results are applied during **Recon Resolution**, after the relevant strategic activity.
+
+Recon improves what your faction knows about the target at that point in the round. Later actions can make those details stale. The observation date records when that knowledge was established.
+
+## Other ways information is earned
+
+- Ruling a province exposes its local state.
+- Battle participants learn information revealed by the tactical encounter and its result.
+- Diplomacy reveals offers and relationship changes to the involved factions.
+- Allied or nearby events may be visible when the game state permits it.
+- Moving next to, scouting, or revealing hidden Shardok units affects tactical knowledge separately from strategic Recon.
+
+Alliance does not make every hidden fact in the world public. Each faction can still have knowledge that the other does not.
+
+## Example
+
+In round 8, Recon reports an enemy frontier province with one battalion. You March toward it during round 9. The enemy simultaneously sends reinforcements. Your report was truthful as of round 8, but it did not promise that the round-9 defenders would be unchanged.
+
+See [Eagle Round Flow](/concepts/eagle-round-flow/#simultaneous-information), [Recon](/commands/#recon), and [Provinces](/provinces/) for related rules.