Medic!

[Gengis Dhen]

I think we'd all agree that the medic unit lacks a bit of love; no animations and limited uses.
Any suggestions?

I'll open with what I reckon.

1. I'd like to see the unit start it's turn as a group of tents showing off the red cross and if it moves turn into the Jeep.

2. Click an icon and auto heal any damaged land units within a range of 1 hex and by 1 point. Same circle type animations as 'sonar sweep' but in blue.
2a. Point and click a damaged unit and heal for a random roll of 2-3
2b. Point and click a damaged unit and heal for a fixed roll of 3
An animation could be made showing tiny medic Jeeps/trucks leaving/returning to the tents.

3. Can only heal 1 unit and by only 1 point if the medic unit moves and by a range of 1 hex.

4. The medic unit should gain exp. points - Any views on how this could be worked in?

[Mercutio]

It really is a fairly worthless unit. It should auto-heal or something to be useful

[Gengis Dhen]

Bump - I don't like to bump my own posts but really interested if anyone else has any views on this (inc. Devs).

[las]

I thought medic jeep can heal without cost and without damaging exp, foolish me....and I'm in lv8 already.

[Gengis Dhen]

I don't think they gain exp. points either?
I might be wrong though.

[Gengis Dhen]

Bump, why nothing from the Devs on this subject in 3 days?
I now have to start my campaign all over again but chose the other perk, as medic perk is flawed?
Shame.

[Myrddraal]

Hi Gengis, sorry it's hard to keep track of and respond to everything! The medic specialization doesn't just provide the unit, it also provides a refund of requisition points when your units take damage, so you effectively get some money back to reinforce units.

[Gengis Dhen]

Ok, thanks for the reply M, I didn't know this and now the medic unit doesn't seem as bad.
Any thoughts on my suggestions/concerns above?

[las]

Units refund is fine,at least it's useful most of the time,higging boat is too situational,as for medic jeep ,maybe just treat it as a damage sponge which use up the last one land unit cap...lol

[las]

I see the reason why repair/heal should cost resource too,otherwise some fishy exploit would happen which draws unnecessary player attention.

So I don't think a straight up heal units action is good,maybe instead grant or enhance the refund when medic is near feel nice.

[DragonKP]

Gengis - Don't expect developers of a game company to personally respond to your design idea in a public forum, especially one that would drastically affect game balance. (In regards to "Bump, why nothing from the Devs on this subject in 3 days?")

[Gengis Dhen]

Got it DragonKP and normally I wouldn't but this is such a small community and the Devs are very active on here.
Also, we need to shout out on here with ideas and requests from uslot to them.
I'm also active on the main forum - I just want this game to grow same as everyone else.

PS. The 'Bump' did it's job eh!

[Wout]

Letting the medic unit heal is a bit pointless since there is already a heal button in game thats a lot easier to use, then a unit that needs to be in range.

Let the medic heal EFFICIENCY without any restrictions
So just move and give a unit next to it 4 efficiency.

That way you got a nice support unit that helps low efficiency units to get back to the fight.

[Jmac]

I agree its useless, I even restarted a game to get rid of that spec.

However it seems like on the Japanese side, the bushido code either doesnt work right or doesnt do very much either and once i saw that there were achievements with the banzai charge i had to restart that game so I could get that one lol.....then I had to restart all my games when i saw the defauly difficulty is 2, and the achievements mainly unlock on diff lev 3 lol.