What this is about
The role
In an operation the MEDIC is the person who deals with casualties – and otherwise does as little as possible. Their tasks:
- Before the operation: check equipment and supplies, set the rally point and the radio phrases.
- During the operation: count casualties, order treatment, trigger evacuation.
- After contact: report everyone’s condition, restock.
The role is part of the role list in FPS group roles and is available in Mission Control as role medic.
Preparation
Carry more than you need for yourself: pens in several kinds, the ParaMed with a refill, protection against the environment. The full list is in the medical operations checklist; for the FPS side see FPS operation preparation.
Position in the team
BALDUURSGATE RECOMMENDATION. The MEDIC walks neither at the front nor last, but in the middle: close enough to reach a casualty in seconds, far enough not to be in the same fire. They stay armed – an unarmed medic in the verse is just a second patient. Two rules have proven themselves:
- Answer fire first, treat second. Whoever kneels under fire stays down.
- One casualty at a time. Whoever treats two at once treats none.
Care under fire
The fast way is the pen on the other person; the medical device needs proximity and calm.q1q3 A sensible order: pull them out of the line of sight, then treat. What the game data holds – ranges, modes, safety limit – is in ParaMed medical device and understanding medpens.
Evacuation
Once it is clear that someone needs a bed: announce the evacuation, choose the route, use the rally point. How a recovery runs is in rescuing & recovering players. In the BalduursGATE client, MAYDAY helps with the distress call and the rally point with regrouping.
- Goal
- Group exercise combat medic.
- Preparation
- Three to five people, a quiet place, an agreed radio phrase. One takes the MEDIC role.
- Task
- Play through a casualty: call, security, treatment, evacuation to the rally point. Then two minutes of debrief: what took the longest?
- Success criterion
- Still open – will be set after our own in-game test.
- Partner
- required
- Functions needed
- Request Rescue (while Incapacitated)
- Medical Pen - Inject Other
- MAYDAY – distress call
- Rally point