best ways to get medicaments?

[Cyrus]

iam almost on 0 with meds so i cant heal my mercs, how u get more? u cant even produce them, do the bushes respawn on the maps?

[ChaosKhan]

Originally posted by 79cyrus:

iam almost on 0 with meds so i cant heal my mercs, how u get more? u cant even produce them, do the bushes respawn on the maps?

The bushes don't regrow. You have to search every spot on the strategic map in tactical mode and scrap med kits you don't intend to use, if you want meds.

Pantagruel has a hospital. If you are really desperate, beelining for it should be a priority.

Meds should NOT be used every time a merc gets scratched. Heal them up to 60 % HP or so with medical treatment and let passive regeneration handle the rest. Don't skimp on the R&R operations - they increase passive regen substantially.

[Mack]

A lot of people miss that if you just sit and wait with your mercs they heal on their own so you don't need meds as much.

[Trolleur_Durden]

Also, you should avoid as much as possible getting wounded in the first place, if you end up every fight with 10+ wounds, you are doing it wrong.

[Cyrus]

Originally posted by ChaosKhan:

Originally posted by 79cyrus:

iam almost on 0 with meds so i cant heal my mercs, how u get more? u cant even produce them, do the bushes respawn on the maps?

The bushes don't regrow. You have to search every spot on the strategic map in tactical mode and scrap med kits you don't intend to use, if you want meds.

Pantagruel has a hospital. If you are really desperate, beelining for it should be a priority.

Meds should NOT be used every time a merc gets scratched. Heal them up to 60 % HP or so with medical treatment and let passive regeneration handle the rest. Don't skimp on the R&R operations - they increase passive regen substantially.

whats R&R

[stretch]

Originally posted by 79cyrus:

Originally posted by ChaosKhan:

The bushes don't regrow. You have to search every spot on the strategic map in tactical mode and scrap med kits you don't intend to use, if you want meds.

Pantagruel has a hospital. If you are really desperate, beelining for it should be a priority.

Meds should NOT be used every time a merc gets scratched. Heal them up to 60 % HP or so with medical treatment and let passive regeneration handle the rest. Don't skimp on the R&R operations - they increase passive regen substantially.

whats R&R

R&R is an operation you can do in towns.

[ahsanford]

1) Walk every sector with a higher wisdom character in your party -- they will spot more loot in general, in including meds

2) Don't have every character bandage in combat. Only people with a decent med skill should bandage, say 30+. I've not verified this, but low med skill either will take longer to do it or waste more medkit material.

3) You heal naturally over time, so I often leave 1-2 wounds on my characters, especially if they are the only person wounded (because otherwise you have to split your squad or entirely stop as that person is treated). It will go away over time.

4) Only pay for hospitals when you are terrible shape and an attack is coming -- or if it's later game and you have a ton of money to burn.

- A

[sooshon]

R&R = rest and recreation, pay a little money in towns for mercs to go to bars and have fun, faster wound healing than plain resting and they can get a "well rested" +1 AP for a day or two (not sure how long it lasts) afterwards

[sooshon]

Originally posted by ahsanford:

2) Don't have every character bandage in combat. Only people with a decent med skill should bandage, say 30+. I've not verified this, but low med skill either will take longer to do it or waste more medkit material.
- A

And on top of this, don't bandage unless you need to. If someone gets hurt at the beginning of a fight and they are low hp, or if they are bleeding, yeah probably a good idea to bandage, but there's no point to it if you're down to 2-3 enemies and you just made a small mistake, no reason to use up your medkits here since the health will just regenerate quickly while resting or traveling. Wounds really aren't very punishing in this game until someone is really dying. In previous game it was a more interesting mechanic where movement was severely restricted b/c of wounds, as well as AP and a merc was much less effective while wounded. Wounds don't really affect anything else besides health and maybe morale a little bit which could have a small effect of -1AP but your mercs pretty much are still close to full effectiveness even wounded or unbandaged as long as you are careful for them not to die outright; this means you can save meds by avoiding bandaging and healing wounds sometimes when you are low.

[HozzMidnight]

There are at least 3 places I have found where you have a hospital type operation available. and can heal mercs for cash instead of supplies. Still takes time but you will be swimming in cash at some point.

[oxide]

i just did the "every bullet causes damage" mod and now im looking for "craft bandages" or "buy 3 every day" mod