Dispatching Ambulances

Just wondering how you guys dispatch ambulances to large calls?
Up until now I have just set two thirds of the number of possible patients as the number of ambulances on the ARR for a call. For example, the Fire in Hospital mission can have a max of 25 patients so I have set my ARR for that mission to 17 ambulances. I know the mission will likely generate for less than 25 patients and they won't all require transport so 1 ambulance could treat multiple patients.

This often seems like a waste at times though because sometimes before dispatching a call I'll see only 5 patient names at the top for example, so I have to go to the ambulance tab an un-tick 12 ambulances. I considered removing all ambulances from the ARR templates and just dispatching them separately at the same time based on the patients written for each call however some calls don't have any mention of patients until the units arrive (or even sometimes when the call is nearly finished) so that just slows the whole process when I am sending ambulances so late.

Has anyone found a good approach to this? Am I missing something?

Ok, so do you have individual ARRs set up for each call? And if so do you have ambulances assigned to each call's ARR?
Or do you use the ARR to dispatch all units and then select ambulances separately based on the number of reported patients?

Quote from Wizz

My ambulance setup is like so

Thanks I understand that, mine is already set up the same way though.

My question was if you have any ambulances included in your call ARR settings, or if you select ambulances separately when dispatching?
For example, the "Industrial Fire" call can have up to 4 patients. So on your Industrial Fire ARR tag that I see in your screenshot, do you have any ambulances set? Or do you press that button and then manually add the ambulances as required (with the green buttons) on each call?

(My current set up has 4 ambulances built in to the Industrial Fire ARR tag so I don't manually add any ambulances but that means that I am sometimes using more than I need to.)

Quote from StuartA1984

I used to have ambulances set in my call alarms buttons but I removed them and I dispatch them separately

Thanks for the reply. I'm thinking of doing the same, I might just give it a go for a few of the calls to see if I prefer it.

I've just started doing that too. Much better.