Apostle medic upgrade

[JuiceDay]

How does this work? It says I can heal units like a medic upgrade, but religious units do not heal outside of holy sites. Does this allow them to do so, or only heal at holy sites faster?

Does anyone use these? I was thinking it could actually be useful to use healing units but I never see any of the let's players ever bother, they just rush enemies and switch units in and out. Perhaps the AI is just too incompetent to bother with healers, but perhaps it could augment a smaller army.

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IIRC that promotion actually applies to military units near the apostle, which makes it decent if you're using the Crusade belief...as long as you also have the Translator promotion, because that's sort of mandatory for Crusade.

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Originally posted by juicefestival:

How does this work? It says I can heal units like a medic upgrade

Any of your units that heal as a result of natural healing (ie spending a turn not moving, as opposed to healing by leveling or pillaging) that are next to the unit with the promotion will benefit from the bonus to the amount they heal.

Originally posted by juicefestival:

but religious units do not heal outside of holy sites. Does this allow them to do so, or only heal at holy sites faster?

The promotion will not allow units to heal that couldn't heal without it. So religious units will still need a holy site, and naval units without a promotion that allows them to heal anywhere will still need to be in friendly territory, even if a unit with this promotion is adjacent to them.

Originally posted by juicefestival:

Does anyone use these? I was thinking it could actually be useful to use healing units but I never see any of the let's players ever bother, they just rush enemies and switch units in and out. Perhaps the AI is just too incompetent to bother with healers, but perhaps it could augment a smaller army.

The AI does not coordinate unit movements well, and so doesn't use them except accidentally/incidentally. I find them very helpful, both for offense and for defense, in certain situations.