Medics in Cold War - questions

[John Given]

Hey battle kat -

It sounds almost like you're describing both a main dressing station and a field hospital in your description. Or were you thinking more along the lines of a division level field hospital and a corps level?

My feeling is the 'medical hierarchy' should be something along the lines of

1. field Hospital (divisional level) - immobile unit.

2. Main dressing station (regimental level unit, transportable)

3. Forward dressing station (battalion level, transportable)

4. Medics (company level)

As far as how many ambulances or medics to 'assign' to a dressing station / hospital? I would think 1 ambulance and 2 medics, BUT, I was envisioning that level of detail to be left up to the individual scenario designer. (I.E. no need to overcomplicate)

However, if you want to make some suggestions and put them in the readme, that's cool with me.

Also, there should be a short description in the unit description itself (F2) mentioning the unit's place in the 'medical hierarchy.' It should probably also be mentioned in the mod readme file all the different types of medical units and what 'rank' they hold in the medical hierarchy (just to avoid any potential confusion).

But just to be clear, the actual number and type of medical units should be left up to the scenario designer to balance the scenario (cuz' it's gonna happen anyway - it's the nature of our hobby).

almost forgot - the actual units any medical units 'heals' or 'boosts' is in game terms entirely dependent on where the unit sits in the oob file for that particular scenario. You could technically have a corps-level medic or a battalion level field hospital - depends on how you set up the oob. So talk of 'medical hierarchy' is very interesting for realism and historical purposes, but the oob placements trumps everything with regard to what unit the medic is 'attached' to - just like with tanks, HQ's, anything - it's the nature of the game engine.

And thanks for all your suggestions and research on this!