using spys with plague against the enemy

**Maion Maroneios** · 06-26-2009, 12:41

I've done it once as the Makedones. A plague hit Taras I think, and I trained a bunch of spies to infiltrate every city that belonged to the Romaioi. Just be careful not to do that with a faction that shares borders with you, because a spy of theirs could just as easily spread the disease towards your own territory.

Maion

**lionhard** · 06-26-2009, 14:50

its a hard decision but as stated above i supose the challenge is welcomed and ill only be dissapointed if the plague has devious effects on my enemies therefore taking the challenge away.

Im gonna turn my spys back thx for the advaice guys :)

Edit: @ maion : how bad did the plague effect the romans?

**Maion Maroneios** · 06-26-2009, 17:03

Very. It was fun to watch the statistics of the Romaioi as a faction, everything went down with population being the steepest slope of course.

Maion

**DaciaJC** · 06-26-2009, 17:30

In my Getai campaign, the Qarthadastim wiped out the Romani and held the Italic Peninsula. Of course, they felt the need to attack my holdings at Segestica. On one particular infiltration, a spy discovered a case of the plague in Arpi, and so I spread it around to all the settlements in the north. Then I landed a large group of elites in the south and worked my way upwards. The diseased enemies were easily dealt with by my troops.

Interestingly enough, it seems as though the plague is much more lethal for its carriers (spies, family members) than in RTW vanilla.

And I'm surprised no one has used

in this thread yet.

**Apázlinemjó** · 06-26-2009, 17:41

I find spreading the diseases with spies a bit cheap, poor AI.

**gamegeek2** · 06-26-2009, 18:38

@Watchman, ED is the best (ED=Encyclopedia Dramatica. Erectile dysfunction... well, that wouldn't really make sense)

**lionhard** · 06-26-2009, 19:11

I wanna try and weaken macedonia but i dont wanna spread it accross the entire globe so its everywhere they have a huge empire stretching from syria all of greece and north to the boarders of the steppes. Too bad wud have been nice, i still may have to use them lol c how i cope with their huge armies heading my way :)