Troop Healing

TL;DR

• Batch healing is free: use alliance help to zero out your hospital queue without spending a single speed-up
• Keep your infirmary empty before major combat events — a full hospital during battle = permanent troop losses
• Save heal speed-ups for: All Out final minutes, Hall of Governors troop-heal day, any event where your march size determines your score
• Research Healing Speed in the Growth tree early — it expands the batch size you can zero-out with each round of alliance help
• The Enlistment Office catches overflow wounded at 70% rescue rate; upgrade it, but it’s a fallback, not a plan

Batch healing: zero speed-ups required

The alliance help system lets you reduce any healing timer by a fixed amount per help received. Done right, your entire hospital queue clears in minutes without touching a speed-up.

How to calculate your batch size:

1. Open your Embassy stats and find Timer Help Duration (e.g., 240 seconds = 4 minutes per help)
2. Find your Help Limit (typically 20 helps)
3. Multiply: 240 sec × 20 helps = 4,800 sec = 80 minutes of instant healing per round

Any batch of troops that takes less than 80 minutes to heal completes instantly once your alliance sends help.

Execution:

1. Add wounded to the heal queue until the timer is just under your total instant heal time
2. Send an alliance help request
3. Queue clears instantly — start the next batch immediately
4. Repeat until hospital is empty

The only cost is a few minutes of active clicking. This works for routine healing after terrors, bear hunts, or light PvP. Save your speed-ups for the windows where you genuinely can’t batch-heal.

When to burn heal speed-ups

Speed-ups are finite. Use them when one of these is true:

• Final minutes of All Out or a kill event — no time to batch heal between combat waves; speed-ups are the only way to field a full army for the next hit
• Hall of Governors troop-heal day — healed troops count toward your daily point total; burn speed-ups here, not on off-days
• Pre-Castle Battle or pre-KvK wave — you need maximum march size for a specific timed window and batch healing won’t finish in time
• After a surprise hit — if you log on to find your hospital full and an active event running, burn speed-ups to recover fast rather than letting wounded sit

Don’t use speed-ups for:

• Routine post-terror or post-beast healing (batch instead)
• Convenience — impatience burns speed-up stockpiles fast

Before any major combat event

• Heal everything out before the event window starts
• Check infirmary capacity vs. your total troop count — if you field more troops than your infirmary holds, overflow casualties die permanently during battle
• If you’re about to join a sustained event like KvK or a Castle Battle: batch-heal to zero before the gates open, not during

Healing Speed research

Healing Speed sits in the Growth research tree. Investing in it raises the healing rate of your infirmary — which means larger batches complete within your alliance help window, effectively multiplying your free healing throughput. It’s in the mid-tier of research priority: below Command Tactics and Training Speed, but ahead of combat stat research for F2P players in the TC25–29 range.

TL;DR

• Batch healing still saves premium speed-ups for better windows — use it for routine recovery even if you have a large stockpile
• The high-value windows for heal speed-ups: All Out (kill event), Hall of Governors troop-heal day, KvK sustained combat waves, and Castle Battle prep
• Keep infirmary empty before events — even with speed-ups, permanent losses from overflow are unrecoverable
• Research Healing Speed fully in the Growth tree — it’s cheaper per-point of power than most combat research and has real operational impact
• Upgrade the Enlistment Office; at high troop counts the 70% overflow rescue matters more

Speed-up strategy

You have more heal speed-ups available than F2P, but burning them indiscriminately still leaves you short during the events that matter most. Prioritize:

Use freely:

• Final minutes of All Out when you need a full army for the scoring window
• Hall of Governors troop-heal day — each healed troop = direct event points; this is the best per-speed-up ROI in the game calendar
• Between KvK waves to maintain march size for back-to-back engagements
• Pre-Castle Battle when your march size determines rally power

Still batch-heal:

• Routine post-terror, post-bear, or light PvP cleanup
• Any healing session where the event window is hours away

The principle: multiplier windows (HoG, All Out scoring phase, KvK active waves) justify speed-up burn because every healed troop directly converts to event points or combat power. Outside those windows, batch healing is free and sufficient.

Hospital capacity management

At high troop counts (TC27+), infirmary capacity becomes a genuine constraint:

• Field only what your infirmary can absorb during battle — overflow = permanent loss, no recovery
• Upgrade the Enlistment Office to maximize its 70% rescue rate for overflow
• The Fountain of Life island building provides Infirmary capacity bonuses at levels 3, 5, and 7 — worth pursuing

Flamedragon Tyrant note: Inside this battlefield event, infirmary capacity is unlimited. The moment you exit, it reverts to your normal cap. If you exit with 1.5M wounded and a 300k infirmary, 1.2M troops die instantly. Plan your exit carefully.

Healing Speed research

Healing Speed in the Growth tree is a high-value research line for active Spenders. Beyond the obvious benefit of faster queue clearance, it increases the batch size you can zero-out per round of alliance help — meaning more operational flexibility during sustained events. Research it fully before pushing deep into combat stat lines.