Argh! The plague!

I need help. I know how to stop the lague from spreading (in fact, the city in question isn't infected any more) but I do have one problem.

My faction leader has some great staff, great traits and is a 10-star commander. He's great! He also is a plague bearer. :furious3: Any army he leads suffers deaths and an undesirable rate, any town he enters is decimated. At the moment I have him sitting with his bodyguard looking rather glum a little way out from a town.

My question: Will he ever be cured/can I cure him, or should I just send him off to a glorious death? (whimper).

Every single general, captain or admiral I have ever had infected with the plague has been an eternal carrier until he dies. I have found from some nasty experiences that the best thing to do with a plague is to not move ANYTHING out of the city from the moment it starts until the moment it finishes. Units only seem to get permanently infected if they leave. If they tough it out, they are ok.

The only exception to this is generals. If you have a general in a plague town and he is NOT infected yet, get him out of there ASAP. I usually leave him in the field near the city (if it is safe) just to be extra cautious.

If you work to control the plague by building public health buildings, and quarantining infected generals/armies, then often you'll have maybe only two in ten of your family member generals die of plague. I've had two different campaigns where I got and spread the plague, but worked to control it, and most of my generals made it through fine.

A little pock-marked, to be sure, but healthy in the end. One of them lived another thirty years afterward, until he was 74.

Excelelnt news, the Plague can be stopped!

I am cheerio now, I had campaign go to smithereens over the Plague cause my whole African subcontinent got infected, I didn't know it was the armies themselves that carried it!

I had a plague for eight turns in one city, which killed a grand total of zero soldiers and zero citizens ~:eek:

I believe it was just a stomach bug going round...

I had a general get the plague in the city he governed. When the city no longer showed up as infected, I moved him out so he wouldn't reinfect the city (as had happened to my capital. About 8 turns later, he died--of an unnamed disaster sent by the gods. I guess a tree fell on him in the steppes.

I like having a spy get infected with the plague. In fact sometimes I send spies to an infected city just to get them to become carriers. Then I send them to enemy cities (or "friendly" ones if I am feeling particularly evil) to spread the plague. Works like a charm!

So that general gets the plague but gets to see 74 years of age before he dies, i didend know they had such cures in those times cause usually plague victims where doomed to die not?

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Originally Posted by khelvan

I like having a spy get infected with the plague. In fact sometimes I send spies to an infected city just to get them to become carriers. Then I send them to enemy cities (or "friendly" ones if I am feeling particularly evil) to spread the plague. Works like a charm!

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Been doing that on my current campaign almost from the beginning.
Running anywhere from 4-5 up to a dozen or more infected spies at any given time.
One thing I have found, infected units at sea (except for naval units) die much quicker from the plague.

Same thing happened to my faction leader. He was a bearer for several years before it cleared up. Oddly enough he got it *again* later on. But that went away for good. He lead an amazing life really, lead numerous invasions, became a plague bearer twice, saw his empire double in size and become the richest and largest in europe.

Btw, the characters (generals/agents) seem to stay bearers long after people start dying. Don't worry... they'll lose plague bearer status eventually. Just don't move them into other settlements!

I have a Brutii general who servived the plague. I built a couple health buildings and the Juno temple and eventually the plague disappeared. The general also received a new health trait, though I can't remember the exact wording of it. Very Hardy +4 hit points or something like that. Isolating them on a ship keeps it from spreading, but everyone I did that to also died. In fact I have that same 'plague ship' sailing around for the last 20+ years, gone through several Admirals who died, every turn that ship is still reported to have plague.
When I want to infect an enemy, I put a spy on the ship to infect him, then transport him to the enemy I want to infect.

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Originally Posted by HicRic

I need help. I know how to stop the lague from spreading (in fact, the city in question isn't infected any more) but I do have one problem.

My faction leader has some great staff, great traits and is a 10-star commander. He's great! He also is a plague bearer. :furious3: Any army he leads suffers deaths and an undesirable rate, any town he enters is decimated. At the moment I have him sitting with his bodyguard looking rather glum a little way out from a town.

My question: Will he ever be cured/can I cure him, or should I just send him off to a glorious death? (whimper).

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Being the sick git that I am, I have restarted my Julii campaign 4 times since I seem to have fundamental realizations that change my approach.

I haven't had plague in a single city in the current one. I build the public health based buildings as soon as they become available (sewers, baths, aquaducts, etc.). It seems to put a stop to plague.

I also control growth by not building farms until absolutely needed, so that I can freeze population growth at around 25,000 or so. I just don't have a plague problem (at least not yet).

Current game turn: around 218 BC. And my core cities are all in the 25K+ range.