Plague bearer!!!

[alexpoh85]

I've searched through the forum using Google, but I cant find any thread bout plague bearer in RTW. My generals are plague bearers and how can I cure them? They can't enter any settlement as it will affect and kill the citizens of the settlement. Worse than SARS huh?

help!!!! Any ways to cure them?

thanks...

[Lt Mor]

Take the general and don't move him 5-10 turns and the plague will go.

[alexpoh85]

ooo..I see. What a way to cure plague bearer. How good if this happen in real life then everyone will live longer. But RTW is a game rite? thanks anyway... ~;)

[Kaldhore]

Sometimes a General will die from it it anyway. Best place to put him is in a fort alone. Or throw a few spies in with him to get infected - then transport those spies to overpopulated towns or enemy towns.

[Count Belisarius]

Prior to 1.3, I THINK you had to send your general back to a city in order to be cured, which created enormous problems if he contracted the plague while not in a city. Does anyone know whether sending him to a city with a public health temple (Askeplios, etc.) will help shorten the duration and/or increase the likelihood of his survival? What about a city with sewers, public baths, etc.?

Intentionally spreading the plague is great if you control Egypt, where the citizens breed like lice. I don't use it offensively, though. Not sporting, really. It cuts both ways, regardless. After 1.3, with the AI's increased emphasis on using diplomats/spies, I had the same plague-infested uber spy infect my capital city so many times that I finally gave up.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Wait a sec....are you saying there's a 1.3 patch? Gimme gimme gimme!!!!

[Count Belisarius]

Wait a sec....are you saying there's a 1.3 patch? Gimme gimme gimme!!!!

SO SORRY! I meant "1.2" not "1.3". Didn't mean to lift your hopes.

[Quillan]

It was a typo. In the 1.0 and 1.1 versions, a character would only be cured of plague by sitting in a town for several turns. In 1.2, they can be cured in the field, but I'm not sure if being stationary is a requirement or not. There is no 1.3 patch. Not now, and perhaps not ever.

[Oaty]

It is better to leave him in a town with the most health buildings. I think a general can only catch a plague 2 ways in a town or having an infected unit join his stack. So once he has the plague it is best to leave him in the town where he is at. If he is really important you may find it better to move him to a city with better health buildings, but remember this will be spreading the plague.

[parrrrk]

I got my plagued general out of town, and after 4-5 turns he was cured.
I don't remember he was stationary or roamed around though.