The Military Hospital is a type of improvement chain building in Fall of the Samurai.
Description[]
The wounded have sacrificed much for their cause.
A military hospital improves the replenishment rate for understrength units. Wounded men who are treated properly and promptly can often be returned to duty. Many European military hospitals, particularly those set up on campaign, were extremely badly run. During the Crimean War in the mid-1850s, for example, disease killed more British soldiers than the Russians, and anyone wounded in action faced a terrible, possibly fatal, time in hospital. This is what prompted Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole to improve medical care. During the American Civil War, field hospitals were often set up in stables as conveniently large buildings to shelter the wounded from the worst of the weather, but thanks to copious amounts of horse dung, not necessarily the best place to recover. Permanent hospitals were often better, but they were often far from the front, and could only care for survivors who lived through their immediate post-battle care.
General Information[]
Requires 4000 gold, 5 turns, Training Camp.
- -10% to the cost of recruiting land units in this province
- +50% to unit replenishment rate
Upgraded from Training Camps, military hospitals massively increase replenishment rate. Even the most heavily damaged regiments can fully recover within just two turns spent in a region with a military hospital. In Fall of the Samurai, replenishment can be very slow at the beginning of the campaign, so +50% replenishment rate might seem very powerful. Ironically, however, military hospitals are not particularly useful as by the time they're available after the appropriate technologies have been researched, more sources of replenishment are usually available to help units recover quickly. Military hospitals can still be useful in regions close to particularly fierce fighting, where units can quickly retreat and recover. Building military hospitals prevent the construction of buildings like Jujutsu Halls and Firing Ranges, which provide more tangible combat benefits for provinces that are recruitment hubs.
Military hospitals are considered military buildings, and therefore benefit from events that reduce the construction times and costs of upgrading them.