Injury and Fatigue (LWR)

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Fatigue

AP Loss

While fatigued soldiers may still be deployed on missions, they may suffer a loss of APs (Action Points) at the beginning of each their turns. Click on the following to view the effects: Fatigue and Exhaustion

Accumulating Fatigue

Soldiers become fatigued after each mission. The fatigue will dissipate if the soldiers have time to rest before going on another mission. Fatigue duration scales with the number of turns that passed during the mission. SHIVs are not affected by fatigue.

The Second Wave option Consistent Fatigue (#35) disables fatigue increasing with the number of turns passed and reverts to base fatigue value of 7 days.

Base Fatigue

Base Fatigue Time: +0.5 days of fatigue per turn on a mission

Base Fatigue Modifiers

Ability	Base Fatigue Time
Months Passed	+1 day per month
Commanding Officer	+30%
Stay Frosty	-10%
Sandhurst	-15%
Extra Conditioning	-30%
Vortex Armor	-50%
Wolverine Blood (Second Wave option)	-50%
Base Will higher than 30	-1% per Base Will
Base Will lower than 30	+1% per Base Will
Difficulty (Normal/Classic/Brutal/Impossible)	-15%/-10%/-5%/0%
Campaign Length (NSL/L/VL/VVL)	+100%/0%/-50%/-66%

Fatigued Soldiers on Missions

Fatigued soldiers that go on missions will have their pre-mission fatigue added to their new fatigue they gained from the missions (only new fatigue is modified by Base Fatigue Modifiers).

Dealing with Fatigue

Ideally, you should have several teams of soldiers ready at any given point. This means that you can take most missions that the game will throw at you, which can sometimes be three in a row, especially with some abductions and if the Slingshot and Progeny DLCs are activated. Try to spread the experience around, and take advantage of easier missions to rank up low ranked soldiers. The last thing you want is for an important mission to come up and only have raw recruits ready to go.

Once you have researched Xenogenetics you can give your soldiers a Meld Injection which will reduce their fatigue/injury time by 80% for the cost of 40 meld + 0.5 meld per day of fatigue/injury.

SHIVs are excellent at minimizing fatigue spirals (all soldiers in the barracks with fatigue) as not only do they help bolster your roster but they also receive no fatigue, limiting the overall fatigue accumulation.

Injury

Any soldier that takes damage beyond their armor HP and into their base HP receives an injury. Even if this loss of HP is healed, the lowest point will count towards an injury. Injuries will prevent a soldier from deploying in future battle until the injury is recovered from.

Accumulating Injuries

Base Injury

Base Injury time: 60 days x Base HP% Lost

Example: a soldier with 5 base HP and 4 armor HP (9HP total) took 5 damage. This means he lost 1 base HP and all 4 armor HP. His base HP% lost would be 1 of his 5 base HP or 20%. His Base Injury time would then be: 60 days * 20%, or 12 days.

Base Injury Modifiers

Ability	Base Injury Time
SHIVs	-50%
Advanced Repair	-25% (MECs and SHIVs only)
Advanced Surgery	-15% (MECs and soldiers only)
Advanced Bone Marrow	-30%
Will to Survive	-30%
Base HP higher than 6/10 (soldier/MEC)	-4% per Base HP
Base HP lower than 6/10 (soldier/MEC)	+4% per Base HP
Wolverine Blood (Second Wave option)	-50%
Difficulty (Normal/Classic/Brutal/Impossible)	-15%/-10%/-5%/0%
Campaign Length (NSL/L/VL/VVL)	+100%/0%/-50%/-66%

Fatigued Soldiers who get Injured

All fatigue time is automatically removed and converted to injury time when a soldier becomes injured.

Dealing with Injuries

Like dealing with fatigue, you should have several teams of units ready at any given point. Injuries can be further reduced by mitigating damage you take. Sturdy units with Will to Survive, SHIVs, and MECs can all take more shots than most soldiers before dipping into their base HP and receiving an injury. Heavy armors and small armor items give more leeway for taking damage without becoming injured.

Injuries are reduced by simply letting time pass. Each in-game hour in the strategy game reduces injury time by an hour.

Another way to reduce injuries is once you have researched Xenogenetics you can give your units (including SHIVs) a Meld Injection. This will reduce their fatigue/injury time by 80% for the cost of 40 meld + 0.5 meld per day of fatigue/injury.

The Savior and First Aid perks both reduce the lowest amount of HP all soldiers in the squad achieved by 1 HP. Multiple instances of these perks can stack. This means with 2 of these, any soldier that took 2 HP of damage into their base HP would still count as uninjured after the battle.