So you go scout, and your scout dies.
All you are left with is the data of number of ships and all, and where the wormholes are on that planet
and the last image of the planet is blank, which kinda sucks.
This is an idea from red alert 2, where you still get to see the last image you saw of the area , before you left or got killed.
So in ai war, after your scout dies from all the random things, you get to see (or count
) the number of the ships personally, see all the buildings that were there at that time and since buildings don't move, it's very useful information when raiding.
you say to pause during the game, but yeah, we don't need this information now, we need it later , at least to know where all the guard posts are, command station and high value targets.