Scouting

Scouting is Armor Blitz's semi-active resource gain mechanic. At the end of City 2 (Bengali) multiple features are unlocked, including Scouting. Scouting is a system that allows you to deploy reserve units to explore Factoria for resources. The unit takes damage while it's exploring and must be recalled to retrieve the rewards, upon which a new timer consisting of 20% of the tank's scouting time will begin until the tank returns to base with its acquisitions and is useable again. If a tank runs out of durability while scouting, it stops scouting any further. In addition, should this happen, a fee of 10 gold per minute scouted is required to recall the tank.

Different tank types have a higher chance of getting certain resources.

Light Tanks have an increased chance to find oil. They have a max emblem carrying capacity of two.

Medium Tanks have an increased chance to find gold. They have a max emblem carrying capacity of three.

Heavy Tanks do not have an increased chance to find anything. They have a max emblem carrying capacity of four.

Tank Destroyers have an increased chance to find emblems. They have a max emblem carrying capacity of two.

Artillery also have an increased chance to find emblems. They have a max emblem carrying capacity of three.

The above is confirmed by developers. It is unknown if there are any other factors that are influenced by tank type such as chance to get cores or chance to encounter events that lower durability.

It is also important to consider the durability and DPS values of the tank when doing long scouting missions. DPS helps prevent durability loss from encounter events with enemy tanks while scouting, and higher durability means it will usually take longer for a scout to reach 0 durability. These stats do not appear to have any other influence on scouting. A high durability high DPS tank seems to have the same resource acquisition rate as a low durability low DPS tank of the same type. It's just that the former example will likely be able to scout for much longer periods of time.