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War Hospitalthrows players intoWorld War I, running a hospital just behind the trenches on the front lines of France. Players can find themselves quickly overwhelmed with patients if not managing their intake and operating areas of the hospitals appropriately, especially once the enemy forces begin unleashing artillery fire and chemical weapons on the nearby friendly soldiers.
For players to keep the hospital morale high enough to maintain functionality (and prevent a game-over), it is critical toproperly assign patients and set work schedules for hospital doctors.By correctly assigningoperation schedules for doctors, players can save a massive number of troops, sending heavy amounts of combat strength to the trenches or support troops to headquarters in exchange for war permits that can be spent on upgrades.
How to Set Operation Schedules
Players can set the schedules for doctors in the Casualty Clearing Station (CCS). Go inside the CCS, select a patient card from the left of the screen, and assign the patient to one of the available doctors. Players can onlyin each ward; be sure toget patients in the worst conditions assigned for operation first.Players will receive patients in one of the following conditions:
Arranging Patients
When patients are assigned in the CCS, players may notice some patient cardsstamped with a skull. This indicates that the patient is at ahigh risk of dyingbefore receiving the necessary operation if the assigned operation schedule remains. When this skull appears,try moving the patient with the stamp to an earlier operation timewith the assigned doctor or to a different doctor in the ward.
As players progress through the game, they will receiveskill upgradesfor the doctors stationed in each ward that canallow for faster operation timesorincrease the chance of operation simplifications. Pay attention when assigning patients asthe operation time and difficulty will dropwhen assigning patients toskilled doctors.Once players arrange all patients in the schedule without any displayed skulls, back out of the CCS and let the hospital team get to work.
Players should also consider improvements that allow for special operations, such as the Amputation Tools upgrade. Once unlocked, players can assign patients to a special operation in the operation schedule in the CCS. Using these operations will make the patientunfit to return to combatbut willdramatically reduce the amount of time required for operation, making the special operations incredibly useful when the CCS is overflowing to quickly push through patients.
When using special operations,consider the red chevrons on the patient card. These chevrons indicate how muchcombat power the patient can restoreduring rehabilitation. It is wise to refrain from using special operations on patients showing three red chevrons, if possible, and send these high combat power troops back to the frontlines once rehabilitated.
It is a good idea to frequently check in with the CCS, not just for new patients arriving (indicated by an audio communication from one of the nurses) but to manage patient condition deterioration.
Players may receive 4 patients who are all in the same condition, butsome of the patients may begin todeteriorate faster than others. Players will want tomove up the operation time of patients who are deteriorating quicklyto ensure that they do not die before seeing the operating table. Once a patient is pulled from the CCS for operation, the patient card will update with an Operating stamp, and the patient’s condition will change to good.
How to Assign Rest Periods to Doctors
As players assign multiple patients to a doctor, they will notice a tag that appears at the top of the assigned patient cards,indicating when the doctor will reachexhausted, extremely exhausted, and collapsed conditions. Players will want to ensure toset rests for the doctorsbymoving the rest tag to one of the assigned patients.
Once set, the doctor will automatically go to the staff lodging to rest once completing the operation on the tagged patient.It is best toassign rests sooner rather than later, as doctors lose operational effectiveness as they become increasingly fatigued, and setting an operation that is too long while a doctor is already exhaustedcan push the doctor to collapse, making them unavailable for use for a longer period than a standard rest.
A good rule of thumb is toassign a rest period the moment an exhausted tag appears for a doctor. In times of emergency, when the CCS is overflowing with patients, doctors can be pushed to extremely exhausted. Just be cautious of the length of operations assigned while a doctor is fatigued;if a doctor collapses during an operation, the patient will be lost.
Improving Efficiency
Players can enhance the effectiveness of the operating schedule byconstructing improvements thatincrease operation simplification, operation time, and housing improvementsthat reduce rest time needed for staff members. If players can get the rest time improvements pretty early in their playthrough, two doctors per operating ward should suffice as long as players are actively managing the schedule at the CCS and assigning rests at appropriate intervals.
Players will intake VIPs that, if fully rehabilitated,will offer to join the hospital staff, including several doctors, allowing players to expand the number of patients that can be scheduled in the CCSwithout spending the staff permits to hire a doctor.
War Hospitalis available now for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
