Apostle Medic Promotion

[Paramecium]

Hi, I have a quick question about the Medic Promotion for apostles. The tooltip indicates, that this promotion gives the apostle the same ability as medic to heal adjacent units 1 tile away. But to be honest, I couldnt test the medic itself yet and I have the impression, that the apostle isnt healing my normal military units.

Is this intended and the healing is for religion units, so it would be a medic in the religion brawl? Or is there another condition like that the adjacent troops are not allowed to move to get healed, but this doesnt seem to be the case.
Or is it just not displaced probably? But it seems to me, that my troops dont get healed anyway by it.

So, long term short, it seems to me to be one of the more useless promotions (besides barb converting and other very situational promotions). Because in my current game around turn 300, I killed the religion of one big contester, but the biggest one still has it owns and produces more faith then me, but the AI seems to stop spam apostles/missionaires at some point, so if I cant use the medic apostles for my units, I could just use their last spread for more converting.

 

[Browd]

Medic promotion only provides additional healing when the injured unit is otherwise healing. So, no healing on a turn when the injured units moves or attacks.

 

[Paramecium]

Medic promotion only provides additional healing when the injured unit is otherwise healing. So, no healing on a turn when the injured units moves or attacks.

But the apostle would heal the military units, not just religion ones?

 

[Browd]

It should.

 

[CultureManiac]

This worked for me. I kept the apostle beside units that were healing. IIRC they gained an 15 health more than otherwise.

 

[Setis]

Mamluks + Healing Apostles are frightening.

 

[avl8]

Healing apostle is also great for holy wars. You park him near holy site, then bring wounded apostles to hang around with him for extra healing.