How about we just remove scouts as paraphernalia? Just let units scout? If your scout gets captured, you lose 1 unit. But to balance things out, maybe increase the percentage of your scout being captured?
We used to have that, almost. Once you ran out of scouts, you could send your soldiers as "untrained scouts". They were almost the same as trained scout reports, except you didn't get traveling/dugin status, and no CS. Then eventually that got dropped, and it was "scouts or nothing". I don't know why it got removed.
