In every game that I've played, Rome gets the plague. Sooner or later, the Eternal City piles its dead by the thousands. However, there is no mourning in the city of Rome. In fact, they have come to embrace the disease. Now that the last 400 of their citizens have magically gained immortality for no apparent reason, and all their troops have fallen to the epidimic, they now have begun to horde plague carriers in the city so that the disease may remain forever.

Far be it for me to ridicule the decisions made by the Senators, who have undoubtedly been driven mad be their illness, but does the AI seem to be oblivious to the fact that they have the plague, or do they just not care? As if this isn't bad, I've witnessed Macedonia spread disease to nearly all of its settlements via my spy network. So unless somehow they KNEW I had been planning to invade and therefore decided to commit mass suicide by contracting plague, there is something seriously wrong here.