CASEVAC

[lockpicker.=P]

Earning tickets for this wouldn't be a HUGE disvantage for the team that doesnt has helicopters? (in case of maps like Muttrah)

[503]

It's too complicated for the public.

It can be heavily exploited.

Although it sounds fun, it's really unnecessary as it "takes too much boots off the ground".

What about the other team? For amphibious assaults, it would be unfair to the other team.

So, if some soldiers are coughing and are really badly torn up, maybe their medic isn't alive anymore and they're about to die, they call for CASEVAC and the helicopter comes to pick them up.
Getting in they stop bleeding but don't heal up, then they're transported back to base where they run over to a hospital tent that heals them twice as fast as a regular medic. During this time the CASEVAC medic can get out and help healing to speed up the process even more.

This would separate the wounder solider from his squad by a huge distance. The process is time consuming and again unnecessary.

[Cheditor]

The only good way i can see this being introduced if say this helicopter drops a medical crate instead of supply crates

[snooggums]

Suggestion involving the points is convoluted and easy to exploit in most cases. You should simply save the point of the soldier you saved instead of being rewarded in points for it.

The intended effect (removing wounded soldiers from the battlefield to be healed) could be accomplished with a medic in a passenger seat simply healing soldiers in a regular transport chopper. If they don't already that would be a good addition to make regular chopper evac more useful.

I'm not sure if they already do or not but all ground transports do, never been in that situation with a chopper.

I do like the medic crates idea although a regular crate supplies bandage resupply fast enough for a regular troop to heal themselves.

[Vision_16]

Good suggestion, but in a game, it can't really be applied correctly and it can be exploited. Even if we take away the idea of getting tickets for healing instead of saving a ticket for not dying, it's not really a good situation for a game. For this, you could either add a "medical crate" that only resupplys field dressings but a little faster than regular crates, so as to have a difference, or you could just have a designated "Med-Evac" helicopter in the game that a pilot and a medic always ride in and their job is to CASEVAC and to help wounded soldiers. Just my suggestion , I think it's easier than the idea proposed.

[martov]

IMO the guy on the chopper should be healed inmidiatly IN the chopper simulating the EVAC of the casualty and another guy who cames to take his position.

also IIRC, the chopper can heal as an asset and the boring position of the medic is unnecesary.

[Qaiex]

Alot of 'boring' and 'time consuming' is being thrown around, my counter-argument to that is realism.
It cannot be exploited unless you make it exploitable.

The problem with a medical crate or being healed in the helicopter is that it becomes another supply drop. Just fly in, slow down a tad and drop a crate and get out of there to go back to wait at main, which is not really realistic or even challenging or rewarding for the pilot.

Lockpicker, MEC would have their own casevac, but since they don't get helicopters on muttrah for obvious reasons they would have some sort of ambulance or truck.


Cyber, wiki to the rescue.

Casevac is a portmanteau word meaning "casualty evacuation". This can apply to injured soldiers
or civilians, and is used to denote the emergency patient evacuation of injured people from a combat zone. Casevac can be done by both ground and air.
Casevacs by air today are almost exclusively done by helicopter, a practice begun on a small scale toward the end of World War II; before that, STOL aircraft, such as the Fieseler Fi 156 or Piper J-3 were used.
Casevac aircraft are a non standardized and non dedicated vehicle, that does not necessarily have en route care which is used to get a casualty back to another location were they can be treated by professional medical staff.

The primary difference between a CASEVAC and a MEDEVAC is that a MEDEVAC uses a standardized and dedicated vehicle providing en route care. CASEVAC on the other hand, uses non standardized and non dedicated vehicles that does not provide en route care to transport casualties that are in dire need for evacuation from the battlefield and do not have time to wait on a MEDEVAC or a MEDEVAC is unable to get to the casualty.

[cyberzomby]

aaah! That is nice! Thanks man Shows that some movies get it wrong I think