In a mission yesterday I slapped the recon tokens on Verena and Diala (WotS build) basically the entire game and it was amazing.
Not only do they get a hefty defense bonus, I could count the times where we did NOT get a +1 damage bonus from a recon token.
Verena managed to get 6 kills against medium health figures in one round with just enough damage for at least half of them.
Those 4 strains probably resulted in 20-30 damage easily.
I really hope I didn't mess up any ability interpretation.