[SG] Adrian's Medics (Jon T.? care to offer an opinion?)

Hi Tom,

> The medic team CAN'T take the reorganize action on behalf of the larger

Sure, I agree. However, I have to answer "because I think that's what the
rules say..." Check out page 39, if you have them handy.

The real question is "can a medic unit spend a reorg action to OFFER medic
services to a DIFFERENT unit?"

Looking at the rules more thoroughly, I see it is another wonderful example of
Jon's somewhat ambiguous writing <VBG!!!>

What it actually says is that "when a reorganize action is spent on the squad,
any troopers who are wounded may be treated by their comrades
and/or
the squad medic if there is one" (I cut a bit out of that).

It doesn't actually specifically say that the squad itself has to spend the
reorganize action, but that is implied by how the rules on spending actions
work.

It later goes on to say "if a medic figure is part of the unit, then add...;
if a specialized medical unit (eg: a field ambulance and crew) is attending
the unit, then ADD 2 to each roll."

So, we know that a medic from OUTSIDE the squad can aid in the recovery roll
(they are "attending"), but it doesn't say that the outside medic does the
reorganize. It only says that having an attending medic allows 2 to be added
each roll. But the rolls are already being taken because of the target squad's
reorganize action, as outlined earlier.

I suppose you could more generously read the "when a reorganize action is
spent on the squad" phrase, and interpret that to mean that the reorganize
action can be taken by the medical team, and "spent" on the target squad in
the sense of "we're doing our work on them, on their behalf, so we spent our
action on them".

> [Tomb] And why isn't this up on House Rules at www.stargrunt.ca? I hear

Heh:)

Quick as mollasses. Bunch of slowpokes if you ask me. I mean, people go and
spend their hard earned free time submitting articles to the site, and what
happens? NOTHING. That's what happens. Geeze. Those guys should get off their
a**es and....

I don't know if we could put it up on stargrunt.ca.

I might actually just be restating what Jon says in the rules, if you
interpret it that way.

And we can't put Jon's rules up on the site...

***************************************

> Hi Tom,
is
> attending the unit, then ADD 2 to each roll."

Well, in this sort of case, yes you can. I've got no problem with small
individual bits of the rules being quoted, adapted etc. on the site - I
just don't want somebody posting the entire system onto the net, for obvious
reasons!

As to the "medic question" goes, I guess this is one of those places that you
can play it the way you want to. The original intention was that the squad
being treated still has to spend
a reorg action - it's more of a game balance thing than a "reality"
thing, in that any advantage gained has to be "paid for" in some way. BUT, if
you want to rule that a specialist medical unit can deal with the wounded
while the rest of the squad is fighting (which is, I agree, the most logical
in
the "reality" sense) then there's nothing wrong in that - after all,
you've chosen to include that medic unit as part of your force (possibly at
the expense of another fighting unit) so you should get some advantage from
it.