army bug!

[J-S]

after i built the battlefield wonder (allows units to heal in neutral & enemy territory) i got a damaged army of moder armors to stayt put a tile away from the next target city. i passed like 5 turns without moving it but it never recovered hit points! maybe i am doing it wrong, but every other unit heals. or is it that armies can't heal unless they are in a city?

 

[Chieftess]

Maybe armies are different? I know if there's a lot of elite units, it's hard to notice it "healing".

 

[J-S]

I'm sure coz every few turns i right-clicked on the unit... the numbers remained exactly the same.

 

[Hurricane]

Hmmm... Interesting. But I'm not totally surprised. Armies heal differently in cities, too, since they won't heal to full strength in a city with barracks.

Anyway, if what J-S says is correct, I think we can call this another bug.

 

[Mad Bomber]

I believe that Armies can only heal in cities and at one hp/ turn inactive, so they are powerful, but very difficult to heal.

 

[Evincar]

MB: I can clearly remember my armies healing faster, 2HP/turn in a city and 3-4 when I had a barracks. Wether armies can heal outside cities is something i just can't remember (I usually take my army away ASAP when it's seriously injured)

 

[Mad Bomber]

Evincar:

Perhaps they Heal 1Hp/Unit/turn, then?

So if you had a 4 tank 12/17 army then it would heal 4hp bringing it up to 16? no, that is too much. My armies usually take at least 3 turns to totally heal (although they are rarely sent to cities with barracks.) Hmmm, this is a good question....

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

MB: they heal faster (Barracks!).

Maybe the army in question gets bombarded? if 'animate battles' is off, you tend to miss these events if it is via bombers or fighters.....

 

[Mad Bomber]

Kiler M;

I do usually get the wounded army far enough awy from the fighting, I just don't pay attention to which city has a barracks surviving or not. As for my battles they are all animated and I don't go away from my 'puter during the enemy's turn. So perhaps it heals 1hp/unit/turn with a barracks and half that without?

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

In my experience, an army heals as fast as a normal unit - that is 1 unit per turn with barrack, 1 HP per turn w/o barracks.

 

[Evincar]

I thought it was 2HP per turn if you didn't have barracks are you sure about that?

BTW: Hadn't noticed your signature !

 

[Mad Bomber]

Killer M:

Thanks for clearing up that little question. Happens to make sense too. I'll have to retreat my armies to cities w/ barracks to heal from now on.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Evincar: may be faster with 1.29 - haven't made extensive use of armies in quite a while.....

well, Germany lucked out in the end.....

 

[Barker]

An army heals in a city one unit at a time. The weakest unit heals first turn, then next unit, until all are healed.