Plague

[Aemilius Paulus]

Never had a single natural disaster.

Neither have I... Well, scratch that, I did. I had two earthquakes. One in Lusitania and one in Asia Minor.

[Ezephkiel]

Ive had plagues in most campaigns ive been in. Have'nt had one yet in my recent saba one though. They can be a devastating weapon if used correctly, savaging enemy populations and ruining their potential to build armies. Although its dangerous as it can spread to your own cities, once had 5 cities at once with plague as the casse due to enemy spies.

Anyone know if building loads of health buildings help prevent it?

[Aemilius Paulus]

They can be a devastating weapon if used correctly, savaging enemy populations and ruining their potential to build armies.

They would be, if not for the fact that a certain part of the EB script gives back almost all of the population every time AI recruits anything... As they say, AI has the script and you have the brains...

Anyone know if building loads of health buildings help prevent it?

Actually this is one of the few times when such trigger is present. Yes, plagues happen when a city is full of squalor and lacking public health. The trigger is started by this. To counteract it, just build the public health buildings and all will be fine. The only problem is that plagues can appear almost everywhere (quite a large number of provinces are marked as plague-prone in EB) at any time...

[Tyrfingr]

Since plagues can be really cripple one's empire, I usually build a couple of public health buildings to prevent the start of plagues.

[A Very Super Market]

The public health buildings tend to be the ones I build first in any captured settlement, which might explain the lack of plagues in my games.

[satalexton]

they're all rare, and I'd like it that way....I still remember losing 90% of an army because of a random earthquake in Mikra Asia back in some ancient version......

[Maion Maroneios]

Now that I think of it, I've had an earthquake once as well. It hit Rhodos (of my own settlements), and it almost destroyed the whole population and garrison army. But I believe the EB team has fixed the too powerful natural disaster since 1.1 or something.

Maion