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As a medical provider irl, I feel obligated to project my passion into everything I do, including wargaming.

I think there should be an overhaul of the healing/medical system in game. Simply put, this would include three key points:

Infantry healing is no longer done through supply (doesn’t and never did make sense)

Addition of special units with the “Medic” trait that can patch soldiers up

Adding field hospitals that can be deployed in spawn for maximum effect. I would love to see airborne ones with fwd deploy but that’s up to devs.

For each nation and battle group, there were designated medics in either each platoon, or serving as an attachment within the company or battalion. The intention is for there to be an infantry medic setup on 3-8 dudes per country who can heal soldiers similarly to how supply trucks do. Both units would need to be completely motionless and not in combat.

Some interesting special units include U.S. Air Force Pararescue Jumpers and the Soviet 561st Naval Reconnaissance Point. These two units conducted CSAR throughout the Cold War and in various conflicts and accidents. These would be SF/Recon/Medic traits. The first two images show USAF PJs and the others show their Soviet equivalent.

Finally, field hospitals would be able to heal soldiers in bulk and have much more supply than the average combat medic squad.

This is a rough draft and I plan to flesh out the mechanics. Let me know if this is an idea you’re interested in. The hope is to add another layer of gameplay instead of adding just a bunch of new units with half baked traits.

Images: Soviet medics supporting a BMP-1, a modern battalion aid station/field hospital, 561st combat diver, 561st combat insignia, USAF Pararescue.