New unit type: Medical Organizations within EF:FB ** AVAILABLE NOW FROM DOWNLOAD THREAD **

[Crossroads]

@Dogovich

For a proper Winter War scenario, the Soviet player should also pound at them with a vengeance. Here's another Wiki quote on Combat Medics:

Traditionally, medical personnel did not carry weapons and wore a distinguishing red cross, to denote their protection as noncombatants under the Geneva Convention. This practice continued into World War II. However, the enemies faced by professional armies in more recent conflicts are often insurgents who either do not recognize the Geneva Convention, or do not care, and readily engage all personnel, irrespective of noncombatant status. For this reason, most modern combat medics are armed combatants who do not wear distinguishing markings.[7] Combat Medics in the United States Army and United States Navy Hospital Corpsman are virtually indistinguishable from regular combat troops, except for the extra medical equipment they carry.

As for how they fit the scale, it is all about evacuation of wounded from disrupt units only. It is not assumed anyone would be patched to return to duty. I wanted to simulate this up to regimental level, although I agree the best fit are the Medics themselves, or the Dressing Station / Battalion Aid Post. But the Regimental Field Hospital / Casualty Clearing Station is there as well, to be available for large scenarios.

One of the next jobs is to write the unit info text of the units into unittext.txt, I would certainly appreciate everyone's help with them, firstly as I am not native in English, and secondly as the name of the units varied through out the countries and duration of war. For an example, Regimental Aid Post, Battalion Aid Post and (Advanced) Dressing Station refer all to same unit, located some 1 to 2 click from the front lines. Then, before Field Hospitals / Casualty Clearing Stations, there might have been Main Dressing Stations. Also, as time evolved, Field Hospitals downsized to or had additional specialty units such as Field Transfusion Units and Field Surgery Units. So this is a bit complicated to abstract properly.

The idea is not to provide eye candy though, but new functionality / logistics.

@John

Field Hospital Building will have a separate icon, once I get up to speed. It has a unique bitmap identifier which is the Pxxxxxx in the middle of the unit data. It will propably be only a sign / flag pole to mark the building it is located at. These units are to be put into a building available in the map by the scenario designer. Edit: added it. Again, this hopefully makes sense when this unit is fixed on top of a building bitmap in the map.

@Ashley

Thanks for your support, as always!

To conclude, we will see if they make sense or not should Jason decide to allow them and encrypt the files. I feel they would be a terrific addition, but we need to wait and see