Hehe, I never see light mechs as being strikers. They don't have the firepower to pull it off, or the armour to stick around and use what little firepower they do have against any kind of prepared position. Unless you're talking about hitting a convoy of unarmoured transports, but then there's the guards... Strike missions are where I think mediums really excel.<br/><br/>That said, recon, and strike for that matter, is matter of mission type and skill, not mech weight or speed. The original Black Widow Company had a heavy (sort of, a<em>Rifleman</em>) in charge of the recon lance. The rest of the Black Widow company was pretty big, as things went back in the old days of Battletech (before they introduced the clans and everything went lame...talk about jumping the shark tank. :p), and they were used like a spec ops 'strategic' raiding force for the most part.<br/><br/>But things are never so easy or simple. The Eridani Light Horse is a tremendous merc outfit, almost as good as Wolf's Dragoons (Natasha Kerensky even said as much), and the Light Horse is almost all light and medium mechs. Again, it's what you're skilled at...