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Do units heal faster in your own territory and more still in your cities?

If yes - where did you get this information, and by how much outside territory, inside territory, and in city?

"heal" and "healing" have no Civilopedia entries (srsly). I can find nothing on Google.

niico
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Yes, though I can't find anything in the Civilopedia either.

From my experience units heal the following amount per turn:

  • 20 in your own cities
  • 15 in friendly territory (I think this includes friendly city states, but I'm not sure)
  • 5 if units are healing in enemy territory
  • 10 elsewhere

As in earlier games naval units can't heal outside of friendly territory (though this can be enabled with certain promotions).

Other factors that affect unit healing include:

  • The "God of Healing" Pantheon (+30 healing in or adjacent to your Holy Site districts)
  • The "Medic" industrial era support unit (boosts healing of adjacent units)
  • An Apostle promotion that lets them heal units in the same way as a Medic
  • The "Dead Sea" natural wonder (units heal completely in one turn)
  • The Great Scientist, "Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi" (passive healing + retirement effect)
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  • thx - are you sure about boats I thought I saw mine heal outside my territory but can't check now was a few days ago. – niico Oct 29 '16 at 01:57
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    The Apostle also features a promotion that lets them heal nearby units as a medic would. – Eric Oct 29 '16 at 04:41
  • I swear my boats have had the option "rest and repair" even when outside friendly territory. – Michael Campbell Oct 29 '16 at 10:33
  • OK, now I'm not sure about the boat thing, I'll remove until I can re-check – therefromhere Oct 29 '16 at 20:45
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    Some ships, particularly including the Norwegian unique unit Viking Longboat, can heal in neutral territory. Most can't. – Paul Z Oct 30 '16 at 00:06
  • I find that English ships can 'rest and repair' outside friendly territory too - not sure if this is unique to England? – niico Nov 03 '16 at 02:47
  • Looks like it was because I was Norway at the time. Now I am playing as China, and my Galley's "Rest and Repair" button is greyed out and says in red "Cannot heal outside friendly territory". – Michael Campbell Nov 08 '16 at 06:39
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    just to clear the issue, it's a unique feature for england and norway to rest and repair their ships outside of their territory. – WayneEra Jan 11 '17 at 12:53
  • I added an edit because I've observed units healing at a rate of 5 per turn within enemy territory. This was on Marathon speed but it probably doesn't matter. – Stephen Jan 24 '17 at 04:34
  • A note - they heal at 5 not just in enemy territory - but in any other civ or city state's territory (maybe not if allies or suzerain - not sure about that?). – niico Nov 16 '17 at 14:27
  • But do they have to be in the exact central spot, where the city is or range of the city, and the spot is the same? – thaywizard Feb 25 '24 at 22:09