The Hospital and wounded troops

A village with a Hospital gets part of every army it loses back as wounded troops, whether it lost them attacking, defending or reinforcing someone else. The Spartans' Asclepeion does the same with a bigger share.

How many come back

• Hospital: 40% of the village's losses.
• Asclepeion: 60%.

It only counts for units from a village that had the building when the battle happened. Siege engines, settlers, administrators and the hero are never wounded, and nor are troops killed while escaping a trap.

Wounded troops do not fight and do not eat.

Healing

• Healing costs the same resources as training the unit again.
• It takes half the time a Barracks or Stable of the same level would take. A level 20 Barracks trains an Ash Warden in 80 seconds; a level 20 Hospital heals one in 40.
• Infantry and cavalry share one queue.
• Nothing else speeds it up: not artefacts, alliance bonuses, hero items or the Horse Drinking Trough.

So the Hospital is not a discount. What it buys is time - an army rebuilt in half the hours - and training capacity, since the Barracks and Stable stay free for new troops.

Decay

Wounded troops that are not in the healing queue die off at 10% a day. The moment they are queued, they stop dying. Queue them early.

When things go wrong

• If the Hospital is destroyed, the queue carries on, and so does the decay.
• If it is destroyed in the battle that wounds the troops, the wounded are still counted, but cannot be reached until it is rebuilt.
• If the village is conquered, the wounded are lost with every other troop - see Administrators: loyalty and conquering villages.

Bandages are separate

A Small Bandage or Bandage equipped before a battle brings back up to 25% or 33% of the losses straight after it, one unit per bandage. The Hospital does not care: of 100 losses, 33 bandages bring 33 back and the Hospital still returns 40 as wounded.

For how long training takes to begin with, see Training time and building levels.