A Pox on your...

[Hosakawa Tito]

Best general/faction leader. In my Brutii campaign I attacked and took the Macedonian Capital of Thessalonica with my Faction leader and his son (each leading their own armies). After capturing the city, my advisor tells me the city has been afflicted with the plague and to "let no one in or out of the city" to keep it from spreading. Over the course of 2 years my two armies are decimated by disease, my Faction leader dies from it. The Macedonians counterattack, and my only young heir and his weakened army are killed in a heroic defense of the city. The flower of the Brutii are no more. :wall: Damn the Fickle Gods of Fate. ~:joker: A nice touch by the game designers :2thumbsup:

[Kraxis]

~D

Well at least the Macedonians got a sick city to kill themselves in... Perhaps they will even spread it to their other cities.

[TinCow]

This happened to me last night too. My absolutely BRILLIANT faction leader managed to take a very large enemy city and then sat on it for a while to calm the people down. It was already highly developed, so I started producing new units there to send to another frontline army that was in desperate need of help. A plague broke out in the city and people started dropping like flies. I built a sewer, thinking that would help, and for one turn my population didnt drop. This made me complacent so I sent about 4 reinforcement units from this city to my frontline army and their extremely capable commander. The plague then came back with a vengance. Long story short, I lost my faction leader, my best general, about 900 troops and about 1/3 of the population of the two affected cities before it finally ran its course.

:oops:

As soon as you see plague pop up, QUARANTINE THAT CITY. Don't let anyone in or out of it, no matter what. That stuff spreads like... well... the plague.

[Doug-Thompson]

Apparently, there's nothing much to do when the plague hits except wait it. I build sewers, etc. but can't tell whether it does any good.

[LittleRaven]

I would think that buildings like sewers would help prevent plague from starting in the first place, but I would be surprised if they were much help after the fact. Whenever plague breaks out, I just wait it out. Sucks for that city, though.

[Kraxis]

Wouldn't it be a good idea to simply adandon the city wit the troops. Then let the enemy or rebels inherit it while you save whatever troops you can. If you are lucky an enemy faction will choke on it.

[Doug-Thompson]

Do plagues ravage the city, or the province that the city is in? Do you have to quarentine the whole province? Now that would be a pain.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Kraxis, if I had to do it over... yes, that is what I'll try in the future. I didn't want to spread this plague to my own provinces so I tried to ride it out. My armies were probably half strength after the battle and initial losses of the plague. Every time I retrained those depleted units, more loss from plague.

Doug-Thompson, the plague ravages the city, civilians and garrison both.

[andrewt]

Is it possible to run them around other provinces, maybe your enemies and "ahem" Roman allies to spread it to them?

[TinCow]

Wouldn't it be a good idea to simply adandon the city wit the troops. Then let the enemy or rebels inherit it while you save whatever troops you can. If you are lucky an enemy faction will choke on it.

Heh... that's how mine spread. Don't move anything out of a plagued city or you're in a world of hurt. That said, the plague I experienced wasn't SO bad that it was worth turning the city over to the enemy. The troops were retrainable and the population will regrow soon enough. If it wasn't for the loss of my faction leader and the other good general (which was the result of spreading the plague by moving units), the most significant harm it caused was forcing me to keep a large army static in a city when it should have been out campaigning.

My advice: Weather the plague, don't abandon the city. Also, named faction leaders will show an icon on their info screens if they are infected or not. If you have a good non-infected family member in a plagued city, it might be worth the risk to have them leg it out of there... just be careful where you take them.


Is it possible to run them around other provinces, maybe your enemies and "ahem" Roman allies to spread it to them?

I didn't notice any effects to units in the field, only to cities and units in the cities. As such, I can't see it being much use against an enemy unless you capture a city, infect it, then give it back.

[Doug-Thompson]

I wonder what happens if you put an infected faction member on a ship and leave it out in the middle of the sea somewhere?

If you could get a diplomat infected, one ship could spread the plague to numerous coastal provinces in a few turns.

[Kraxis]

I meant to move the army out in the field, nowhere near a city. Or does that spread the plague as well (nasty)?