Plague

[Celtic_Punk]

I've never seen the plague in EB... ever... ever ever ever... Was this feature removed? I sort of do miss using my spies for biological warfare :)

[Ghaust the Moor]

I had the plague in my casse campaign. I captured the southern irish town and it had the plague. i had to sit thier for like ten turns to get over the plague

[Julius Augustus]

I sort of do miss using my spies for biological warfare :)

Same here!
I have never run across it either. It's a shame.

[johnhughthom]

I had it once that I remember. My spies decimated the population of Gaul and Germany.

[Fierro]

Had it three times.
Once in my romani campaign. Massilia got the plague.
In my AS campaign I captured a saba settlement that was plagued careless error on my part for not looking.. reloaded because I wasn't going to have my whole army die off for no reason so far from any retraining.
In my current casse campaign I had a spy in italy and it was odd because he became plagued but wasn't in a town..

[Cute Wolf]

Plague seems so random in EB... I never encounter them when playing nomads, but yet, playing as "civilizatedly cleaner" Hellenes... I got them..... maybe the nomads didn't caught by plagues?

[johnhughthom]

I think the idea is that plague is spread by seatrade, the most popular spots to get it seem to be trading hubs, Massalia, Syracuse etc. Nomads wouldn't have had much involvement in trading by sea so they are unlikely to be affected by plague.

[A Very Super Market]

And a smaller and sparser population, of course.

[Dutchhoplite]

2 Seasons in Sarmiszegethusa. First season 9% decrease in population and the second
season only 7 %.

[Celtic_Punk]

so whats the official word on what they've done with plague values?

[Apgad]

I find plagues useful for reducing population in your own cities that are close to rebelling. Got to use it carefully though...

[Teleklos Archelaou]

so whats the official word on what they've done with plague values?

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=88708

[Chris1959]

I had several plagues and the odd natural disaster in my campaign but now I look back in the last 150years nothing took place.

[Maion Maroneios]

I've had the plague once in Southern Italy IIRC. What I do recall for sure, is that I trained a bunch of spies and had them infiltrate every Romaioi city possible. It was quite fun to see how much it destroyed them economically and military.

Maion

[Celtic_Punk]

Never had a single natural disaster.

[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

[Celtic_Punk]

I run 1.1... I've tried to install 1.2 but it didn't work... i need 1.1 for WotB and my AAR which i am thinking of bringing back at some point! (SORRY I have writers block... and its really hard to come up with anything when I don't have all the time in the world to spare.) so I think I'll be running on 1.1 for awhile.

[Apázlinemjó]

I've never had any disasters...damn I want one!