Allowing the AI to be medics would require widespread use of regen boosters. Surgery would be a bit more difficult, as this would require the AI use an action continously instead of fighting, depending on other soldiers. Both is possible, but

• widespread distribution of regen boosters leads to the player having access to tons of the stuff, which would dumb down the need of doctors - bad.
• Gettting the AI to do surgery is possible, but would make the AI less threatening as a whole (doctor is no combat skill, doctors would have to ignore combat to help comrades).

Hmm. Perhaps we have a misunderstanding here. By shackled I meant prisoners to be visibly handcuffed, not attached to a wall with chains .

Any soldier you capture has the Status 'CAPTURED' instead of 'HEALTHY' or 'WOUNDED', so there already is a definite sign on that. Same for the prisoners of war, who are called, if I recall, 'PRISONER'. But this would look much nicer.

Also note that there is one very obscure code bit that already allows the AI to stop its bleeding. Without bandages. In the AI decision making routine itself :uhh: