weak medics are good?

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by snoopy369

It takes each UNIT, looks to see what things might affect its healing, then processes that unit's healing. Thus, any unit that has expended any move points and does not have march DOES NOT HEAL for any reason other than healing due to getting a new level promotion.

I don't know if it's related to move or not, but there are also random events which result in a unit getting healed.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Nonono. The units in the stack that have March will heal, and the units without will not.

Exactly. Civ4 does NOT have any mechanisms involving "stacks". Each unit is individual and separate. The only effects from "stacks" are if one unit has an effect that modifies other units on the same tile (eg medics).

[DirtyMartini]

Thanks all, very helpful.

I don't know if you could tell by my recent rash of posts, but I've decided to try to improve my game paying closer attention to the details.

Are there any other "tricks" to using medics. I recongnize the value of having a medic in a stack, and I use weak units which won't defend, but beyond that, I just put one in my attack stack and off I go. Once units need healing, they stop with the medic. Once they're healed, they all catch up again. Anyone have a more elegant way of using them?

Also -- does a having a medic in range effect how much a unit heals when it spends a promotion?

[demon59]

Might seem a silly question, but does Medic II heal all adjacent units (including opponents) or only yours?

[Kuciwalker]

Definately not opponents, it might heal other units on the same team though.