by Throknor
Because our board has a sticker that says:[o]You do not yet know how to recon out of Kolkata.[/o]
So we can't do it. And I think that's our problem with this Season. It sounds like we have to search a particular city and for once there's no "If you haven't..." card to finish it. So we're stuck until that card comes up to be searched early enough we aren't running around just dealing with the plague cubes.
Just looked (I'm that annoyed) and it isn't a searchable city so I have idea what gets rid of that sticker. Sounds like we'll just have to pretend Bravo Team swung by to recon it for us if we want to actually finish if October doesn't force it anyway.
To answer your question,
[o]the recon of East Asia is Mandatory. Even if we didn't have all of the cities on the grid we still couldn't win.[/o]