The Plague

[Marcellus]

Once settlements/characters/armies are hit by the plague, how long does it take for them to recover? Is there any way to speed up the recovery process? It's just that the plague is really hurting one of my armies. Any help on this issue would be much appreciated.

[Quietus]

Build the public health buildings such as sewers.

[Kekvit Irae]

If there's a spy or assassin or emissary or general in your employ that is infected, he will make sure the plague stays in that town. Remove him and the town will eventually recover.

[Marcellus]

Thanks Quietus and Kekvitirae.

Is there any way to speed up the recovery of the spy/assassin/emissary/general once they have been taken out of the city?

[Mahrabals apprentice]

I think sometimes its inevitable, suchas the plauge in macadonia near the start of the game. Or atleast I have never been able to dodge that 1

[pezhetairoi]

8 turns max for an army if it stays in a city with health buildings. And I think the higher-quality the health buildings the shorter the plague duration.

[Megas Alexandros]

I am quite confused, you mention this plage in Thessaloniki, which is fix programmed, although, I started as the Macedonians, played for 25 years and no plage erupted. I have to admit, the city is very dirty, but still no disease. Odd, but I can live with it.

[kburkert]

I think sometimes its inevitable, suchas the plauge in macadonia near the start of the game. Or atleast I have never been able to dodge that 1

When i play as the greek cities i never get the plauge in macedonia happen. But if im anyother faction it happens.

[Severous]

Another reason to ensure your capital is not infected with plague :

- Senate mission rewards of new units appear at your capital...they wont be infected.

[Barbarian_King]

shit I spreaded the "love" to my own capital.
Right now I've got two of my largest cities infected, I've got a huge army to feed and the income is taking a heavy hit, also have to keep the war going.
Those two cities have like three hearts for each growth and public happiness.
what do I do!!??

[Megas Alexandros]

Disband the army or let them eat the neighbour's food for a while. He would be grateful for that, I am sure.

[professorspatula]

My favourite plague is when the AI decides to punish you endlessly by spreading it back and forth to your cities. Two infected AI spies entered one of my cities, then four or five turns later, moved into a neighbouring settlement and infected that. Then, just as the first city has recovered, it moves its plaguebearers back to that city, then keeps going back and forth to each one just when they are recovering. Despite having 6-10 spies and assassins (many 5 star or more) in each settlement, I couldn't stop the AI spies murdering my population for a period of 30 years or more. I even tried surrounding my cities with agents to stop the AI spies entering but to no avail. Finally, after 10,000 deaths or more, I killed the plague-bearing spies.

The next best plague is when you accidently infect your best fleet with the plague. For fleets, there is no cure that I recall, only death.

[Barbarian_King]

wow 10 000 death. I cant afford to loose that many.
So what is the cure? I've got one of my governors infected and he is not getting better even though the settlement had already recovered.

[Slug For A Butt]

I believe the only cure is public health buildings and time.

[Horatius]

Play Mongolian Style and send an infected agent into an enemy city.

[pezhetairoi]

Mongol style /= Mongolian style. Ahem.

Anyway. If you played Mongol style where would that get you? The infected region essentially is a no-go for you thereafter, because you would get the plague should you try to take it. It takes too much time and doesn't weaken the enemy -that- much. I'm wary of that tactic.

[M.T.Cicero]

When plague hits, I just leave the town as it is and wait until it's gone, garrisons are mostly town watch anyway and who cares about them? If there's a governor in there I leave him too, cuz he doesn't neccesseraly get infected while being in a diseased town, but he always gets infected if he moves out of it, same for agents. Sometimes plague can be useful tho, once a city is up to Huge, population is no longer needed and only causes squalor troubles so sometimes I spread plague in my own big cities intentionally if I feel economy is strong enough to bare with it. And I don't ever spread the plague to AI, the damned thing has no idea how to deal with it and it just lets it rage for decades infecting his cities and young family members - which I don't like since both are usually soon to be mine.

[pezhetairoi]

wrong, he gets infected when he's in a diseased town. It shows up on his detailed bio readout as a skull in the top righthand corner whether or not he moves out. He will infect any city just as well as any spy can, and yes, he can die. I forced 2 macedonian factioners to die of the plague when my Brutii army besieged Thessalonica and the last Macedonian fullstack one turn before the plague broke out.

Plague is troublesome because as much as it removes squalor, remember it decimates your garrison too so things will cancel each other out.

[player1]

The only thing I fear about plaque is losing good general or my veteran Cretan Archers (not retrainable).

[M.T.Cicero]

wrong, he gets infected when he's in a diseased town. It shows up on his detailed bio readout as a skull in the top righthand corner whether or not he moves out. He will infect any city just as well as any spy can, and yes, he can die. I forced 2 macedonian factioners to die of the plague when my Brutii army besieged Thessalonica and the last Macedonian fullstack one turn before the plague broke out.

Plague is troublesome because as much as it removes squalor, remember it decimates your garrison too so things will cancel each other out.

I've been doing this for a long while and 90% chances are the plague passess and the governor gets by without a cough.