Healing on the battlefield? Request a crusade?

[Callatian]

Seems so...

In the battle statistic menu you get this colums for each unit:

1. Experience gained
2. Casualties sustained
3. Casualties inflicted
4. Casualties healed
5. Prisoners caught
6. Taken Prisoners
7. Men

Beats me what exactly number 4 does or why is there. Maybe they healed them selfs right after the battle ...

As for the request a crusade menu (crusade targets)... you get all the known cities on the map listed and the message is this:

"Select target settlement from the list and click to request the Pope to commision a Crusade on the selected target"

I was so amazed back then that I forgot to click and passed over it takeing different menus to check.

Cheers,
"BB/C"

[SpencerH]

Cant remember from shogun (for sure) but IIRC 'healing casualties' after the battle has always been calculated. Thats why there are traits to increase the % healed.

[Polemists]

Most people have known you can request crusades as that's been in quite a few videos and screenshots. Of course weather you actually get it depends on your relations with pope, or if you are pope

[the_mango55]

Casualties healed is a feature coming back from MTW.

If you win the battle, then some of your units who were lost during the battle were not killed but just injured enough to take them out of the battle. "casualties healed" represents that, and you get those units back.

Losers don't heal casualties though, I guess because the victor goes around and stabs the bodies to make sure they are dead.

[Polemists]

That sounds about right. I mean if you win why would you let enemy gather back up his forces? :P

[Temujin]

Casualties healed is a feature coming back from MTW.

It was in RTW too. Could get a little nuts with the egyptians if you build shrines to their god of healing (imhotep?) and academies in every town.

[lar]

maybe instead of stabbing those enemy men you should gain additional surviving prisoners, as in the losers survivors are captured and become prisoners or killed, your choice like it was in mtw for routing soldiers.

[Peasant Phill]

Casualties healed is a feature coming back from MTW.

If you win the battle, then some of your units who were lost during the battle were not killed but just injured enough to take them out of the battle. "casualties healed" represents that, and you get those units back.

Losers don't heal casualties though, I guess because the victor goes around and stabs the bodies to make sure they are dead.

I still play MTW a lot and I never noticed this. What I did notice is that if you win the battle you get your soldiers back that were captured. If you lose, you can ransom back your captured soldiers and lose the soldiers you captured (fleeing and draging along prisoners isn't that easy). AFAIK MTW doesn't make distinctions between dead and wounded.

[Dracula(Romanian Vlad Tepes)]

The thing with healing is fine for me.

[Kourutsu]

I just got off RTW, took Alesia with a a mix of ELC and Barbarian mercs. Now, I used the mercs as fodder, and almost an entire company got wiped out. At the end of the battle, 117 of the men were healed.



Now I am happy that my fodder bounced back, but the prospect of an enemy army doing this is...unnerving.

So keep the healing feature, tone down the amount of people being healed

[hoom]

Healing is a RTW thing.
It represents soldiers injured enough to be unable to further partake in the battle but not enough to preclude them from the next.

[andrewt]

In RTW, soldiers who got "killed" while routing are much, much more likely to heal than those who got "killed" during a battle. Those who got "killed" during the initial charge are somewhere in between. If your 120-man crappy unit gets charged and routs, you almost get everybody back usually if you win the battle.

[hoom]

Also archery 'kills' have a high rate of healing.

In contrast, your elite unit that got killed to the man in the thick of the fighting is unlikely to have (m)any heals.

[monkian]

What these guys said - casulties healed is in RTW - thats why having Drs etc in your retinue is a good thing.

[Ulstan]

Yeah definitely a RTW thing. I don't know what causes casualties to be healed back though. It seemed like if a unit got destroyed early on and then sat around on the battlefield for the rest of the battle doing nothing it would have a high rate of healed casualties.

[SpencerH]

I havent played MTW for some time, but I seem to recall "healing" in the form of some units with more men after, than at the end of, a battle. OTOH, my memory may be showing the effects of the onset of senility.

[hoom]

You probably just forgot to untick the "tidy up units after battles" box & were seeing the tidied up units?