War Hospital: 5 Best Tips for Beginners

The world of combat medics is riddled with the sad reality of losing lives or having to save them. War Hospital has brought this reality into gameplay with a thrilling combat medic game set on the battlefields of World War 1.

Your role in the game encompasses that of a male doctor who is also the main administrator of a medical clinic on the devastated Western Front. Additionally, your small team of medics and nurses can be quickly overwhelmed, and it’s up to you to showcase your hospital management skills under pressure.  To help out with this, we have sought out these five best tips to help beginners in their exploration of War Hospital.

5. Prioritize Faster Treatment and Discharge

Like a real battlefield, War Hospital puts you in a management-type narrative where you have to perform a balancing act. The role sees you try to counter the pressure from overflowing casualties and patients against the backdrop of a shortage of medics. Of course, there’s a lot of overworking on nurses and doctors, which could result in game over. It is, therefore, up to you to ensure the free flow of patients in and out of the war clinic.

One way you can hasten treatment for incoming casualties is to always assign a doctor once a casualty comes into the Casualty Clearing Station. With a doctor assigned, treatment begins immediately, no matter how minute it may seem. Remember, failure to begin treatment results in the deteriorating condition of the patient, ending in death.

Patients will also undergo faster treatment if you highlight the role nurses play in the healing process. For instance, at least one nurse has to be assigned to the rehabilitation ward to guarantee your patients’ progress towards healing. The number of nurses, in addition to their skills, can determine the patient’s successful treatment timeframe. In short, consider how much of an important role nurses play in the different wards within War Hospital.

4. Work on Staff Morale

War Hospital’s medical sim narrative includes aspects of war’s effects on soldiers and civilians, including depression and trauma. Doctors, nurses, and medics in War Hospital come with a morale bar that rises and falls depending on how much combat affects them.

One way your staff’s morale could face a shortfall is if the number of casualties begins to rise at the war clinic. Patients dying greatly affect the medics’ morale, leading to a slowdown of work from all over the hospital. You can avoid deaths by keeping patients’ conditions from deteriorating until they eventually die. Keeping your queues and the “Denied Patients Folder’ clear also guarantees fewer deaths on record for your facility.

Morale boosters are also on offer as a way to keep the staff happy and working even in tough combat conditions. An example of a morale booster is the successful treatment and discharge of a soldier to head home. Quick decision-making on patient treatment is also recorded as a form of morale booster, where failure to make a decision results in the operating doctor losing morale and stamina.

3. Get Bigger Storage

Supplies make or break real wars, and in War Hospital, the situation is no different. You get supplies, equipment and food rations from a scheduled train. The train would regularly drop off a cargo of 250 freight trucks plus food rations for the war clinic. Supplies made on order from HQ can also be part of the items in transit to the War Hospital.

However, these supplies are not useful if there is no proper storage building around your hospital area. With proper housing provided, like a warehouse, you have the confidence to order more resources since you need extra storage. Even better is the fact that the size of a warehouse gives you the chance to order more personnel to work at the war clinic.

2. Build Your Scouting Game

A look into War Hospital’s Chapter One reveals a Scot unit is attached to Major Well’s command early on. The Scout team is a valuable asset to assist in the exploration of interesting points, enemy camps and landmarks on the map. Unlocking them starts by building the Scout Tent, after which you can make an order for the personnel from the Train Station.

Once you receive your Scouts, your next move is to unlock and deploy them for the necessary story event. Begin by visiting the Scout Tent on the map and issuing your instructions to the present units at the camp. The instructions are text-based encounters, ordering them on what to look for and take back home.

As such, this makes scouts an essential part of the hospital in dire times. Keep in mind that the supply run is not always a guarantee, considering the trains could delay or even cancel. The war could also yield more casualties than necessary, stretching the hospital’s supplies. With scouts, you get units to send out in search of supplies and resources at interesting points on your map.

1. Advance Your Crafting Skill

Crafting is an unnecessary skill that determines the lives you save and the level of progress in your gameplay. As the game goes on, you will begin your crafting journey by building the pharmacy so the doctors can get their supplies. After a while, the advancement calls for your basic pharmacy to develop and produce chemical medicines and trauma medicine.

For beginners, advancing the facilities sets a start on your crafting path, with engineers now capable of coming up with more results from limited resources. For example, surgeons get a better base rate for converting freight cargo into surgical supplies to use. Physicians also have the advantage of converting less freight cargo to produce the same amount of chemical medicine as before. In essence, advancing your crafting skills by developing your facilities allows you to spend fewer resources and become more productive.

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