New, dont laugh...

**Ptah** · 10-12-2004, 11:33

Keep a close eye on the status of the troops and generals when a plague occurs on one of your cities.

Usually, the plague that sweeps the city ends after a few years, but in many cases the general is still carrying the diseases. When that happens, the plague will break out again.

So, when you see the skull icon gone on the city, check on your governer. If he is still carrying the disease, send him on a vacation on some remote corner of the earth - build a fort(I guess its a villa in this case) and keep your general there. In some cases he may recover, but many times, he will be sick until he dies. I guess one has no choice but to consider as an intervention from the Fates when a plague hits your general.

**Despot of the English** · 10-12-2004, 12:10

What squalor level do you need to attain in order to get a plagued settlement? I have a city classified as huge (28,000 people) and has a squalor level of 65%. When should I worry?
BTW, I have public baths, sewers, aqueducts, most of the health buildings actually, but my guess is that the settlement is so big that squalor is never going to go down.

**Excalibur Bane** · 10-12-2004, 13:55

If memory serves me, plague strikes at random and has nothing to do with squalor. It just generates unhappiness. Not much you can do about it really, reduce population growth to zero if you can.

Or do like I do, pull out your governor and garrison, set the taxes really high, let the population revolt, siege the settlement, kill all the rebels, then massacre the entire population of paupers. This will bring it back down to a reasonable population level in no time. And it's fun. Bring heavy onagers to spew fire on the city during the siege for extra party favors!

**footman** · 10-14-2004, 03:19

i just let it spread..i wont care...coz i got 34000 people...i want em die....otherwise i get tons of rebels

**Upward Mobility** · 10-15-2004, 00:27

I remember reading a thread a short while ago that suggested putting the units (if you can spare them) on board a ship.

I tried this, and I kept getting a plague msg with no soldiers killed, until my 10 star general died. But, when a few turns later I conquered Corinth with this army (after having no msgs about plague etc) Corinth instantly had a plague... I need to test this more. Has anyone used the ship method and had the plague actually go away from their units, or are they just in some sort of stasis while they are aboard ships?