The plague is insane!

**Stolpmeister** · 11-26-2006, 22:41

I've had it hit around 135 both times I've played that far... that's year 1350... which is cool, since the real plague hit Europe around 1347. Playing as Spain and holding 40 territories, it killed off 45000 citizens and 1500 soldiers and 10 family members on one turn. That was at its peak, but it was always pretty bad. I also had the experience of gaining money from it, rather than losing, since it gets rid of all that squalor in cities that I had built up as economic powerhouses... no beggars in the streets when you can just take your dead neighbours house and job, I guess.

**Werner** · 11-26-2006, 22:55

Thats a good point, but I wonder if there's another way to control squalor other than huge garrisons of troops or the plague? I've found it to be a major problem recently, with cities reaching 20 and 30 thousand citizens I'm having problems keeping them all under wraps. Maybe the plague hit just in time :)

**ShadowStriker** · 11-26-2006, 23:03

I'm so stupid... Thye black death was nearly over and only London was affected, and without thinking clearly, I moved some troops from London to a couple other cities, the Black Death has started again!

**knoddy** · 11-26-2006, 23:09

i had the plague in a few random cities, not really hurting much in my english camp, then the black death hit. every single city i controlled, i went from about 30 000 florins a turn to -10 000. really hurt my income alot, i was at about -20 000, florins when it was finally swept from my cities and my incomes returned to normal. great event imo :D

Cheers Knoddy

**Wizzie** · 11-27-2006, 00:06

I'm just reading the section on the black death in "Set in A Silver Sea" by Arthur Bryant. I quote "[The Black Deatb resulted in] a mortality rate higher than that expected today from Nuclear War".

Wow.

**Jan Zamoyski** · 11-27-2006, 00:16

Is it possible to disable black death by editing event_descr file?

**knoddy** · 11-27-2006, 01:49

ouch well i just got the black death event warning in my byzantium campaign, and heres a screenie from about 2/3 turns latter lol, so hurty.

https://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/knoddy/plauge.jpg

https://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y7...dy/plauge2.jpg

just have to hope i dont lose too many family members to it, fingers crossed lol.