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Thread: Pls help, how to stop death stalk?
ciaoftu 05:48 11-18-2004
My infected city (and general) will not end its epidemic?
Thanhk you!

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Owen 10:40 11-18-2004
Quarantine the city. Do not send any of your troops, including your generals, out of the city until the city is free of plague. Any general in the city should stay in there until he is free of infection, or dead of course.

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R'as al Ghul 11:20 11-18-2004
You cannot stop it. You can only wait.
Quarantine is a good thing if you don't want to spread it further into other cities. Check the unit-card and look for the skull symbol. It will tell you if a certain unit is infected. A city usually takes 4-6 turns to get clean again.
If you want your neighbour to participate in your misery, send him an infected spy. When your spy enters one of his towns, it will become infected, too.

R'as

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jean_s 11:49 11-18-2004
You can even avoid death :D,
if you quicksave before the end of the turn, when the infected general dies, load the saved game and in most of the cases he will not die again.

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*Ringo* 12:20 11-18-2004
Originally Posted by jean_s:
You can even avoid death :D,
if you quicksave before the end of the turn, when the infected general dies, load the saved game and in most of the cases he will not die again.
These things happen! It is the will of the Gods and not to be argued with; or thou shall face their wrath!

In other words, that's cheating!

*Ringo*

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Fridge 13:26 11-18-2004
As everyone above, but building public health buildings reduces the chance of getting the plague in the future. Also, I find that sometimes just taking the infected generals and other named characters out of the city (and just leaving them somewhere in the wilderness) is enough to stop your citizens and soldiers dieing, though don't forget the character is still diseased.

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mcveigh 11:52 11-18-2004
I had a spy infected with the plague for about 15 turns. I managed to infect 10 towns with the plague. Its a very cheap way to annoy your opponents.

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Watchman 12:18 11-18-2004
I did that with the Scipii's African provinces during my particular Roman Civil War. In my experience the plague totally buggers a city's income level, so having a bunch of infected spies traipsing around enemy territory is a neat way to hurt their wallet.

And when the old spies go and die of the plague replacing them is a simple matter of infiltrating a fresh, healthy young spy into an infected settlement...

...
...you know, for some reason I think I should feel at least a little bad about such nasty tactics...

"Son, Rome needs your help, your Sacrifice !"
"Yessir, what am I to do ?"
"Go and catch the plague and spread it around. Now off with you, and don't write home 'cause I sure don't want to get sick."
"...yessir..."

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Alexandr III. Biges 16:19 11-19-2004
Originally Posted by R'as al Ghul:
If you want your neighbour to participate in your misery, send him an infected spy. When your spy enters one of his towns, it will become infected, too.

R'as
Gues I'll pay a few visits to my Roman "friends" :) (As Macedonian)

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Siris 19:36 11-19-2004
Oh my Egypitain buddies (pff, yea right) will enjoy the present that I'm going to send, from one city, to the next, to the next. Time to kill off the Egyptians with my biological weapons! MuHaHaHa!

Does it really never stop, and continue killing them all? Or, if a General gets it, does he always die? If so, could you end an entire civ. by killing all of its family members, just on the basis of them catching germ warfare?

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hoof 00:16 11-20-2004
A few things to keep in mind:

When a plague breaks out, sometimes named characters aren't affected right away. Thus it is vital (if you care about them) to check when the plague first occurs. If they are not infected, move them outside the city (but keep them isolated, just in case).

Even if they are, move them out anyway (and keep them isolated). This way if the city recovers before the character (or vice versa), the other doesn't reinfect the first.

Oh, and it pays to scout out a city *before* taking it. More than once have I taken a city, only to discover it was plague ridden (I guess I didn't notice the disfigured soldiers defending the walls ... ), and ended up losing a very experienced general to disease.

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Lonewarrior 06:40 11-19-2004
I had really bad luck with death stalk. Two of my precious generals that were leading my northern front died because of a plauge. I had to abandon my cities, nothing seem to help.

SO I figured that the cheap way out is to let the city rebel and be taken over by rebels, but not to attack the city with your infected army. Instead with a healthy army. Take the city and you'll find out that the plauge is over. Meanwhile I just left my infected armies sit in my northern borders. ANd as far as I can remember they are still there sitting around. i don't want to move them at all, besides I don't need them anymore, but they are good for defending.

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