Principles of MedEvac
Don't forget that Medics can also heal through windows - this saves valuable time, and keeps your medic protected from grenade blasts, direct fire, and other threats.
The principles are simple:
Provide a fast path back to shelter. This should run perpendicular (90 degrees) to the threat axis, so that enemy fire will have less time to hit your injured unit.
Provide cover fire, and if possible, another stronger unit to 'block' for the retreating injured unit. What will happen is that the enemy's opportunity fire orders will pick up the nearest unit to the center of the opp fire line, so if you have another unit run across that line, the enemy will target it.
The Commander in this example has been set to run halfway across the screen, directly across and then towards the threat axis.
Rookie Move Warning!
Commanders are a good choice for blocking since they rarely die from a single shot, however they are valuable units worth 3 Force Points.
Provide one or more medics waiting behind cover.
Rookie Move Warning!
This should be set up with a move and then a hold order so that the medics don't charge out and meet their injured comrade in the middle of the wide open spaces, exposing the Medic to enemy fire.
Sneak Tactic
Set your Medics to heal while having the Halt on sighting new enemy to prevent nasty surprises. The Medics will start firing on attacking units that may pop up. The screen should look like below for that turn:
