The plague is insane!

**danfda** · 11-27-2006, 04:45

I had the Black Death event in my Russian campaign, about turn 140 or so (can't recall exactly). Had the miserable Yersinia in every one of my settlements, and I lost probably 10,000+ civilians per turn for half a dozen turns. It really squashed my cities. I was just about ready to build some huge stone walls in Kiev, and after the plague I had to wait for many years in order to be able to build them again, I lost so many people. I lost a couple family members, and had troop levels reduced to about half in most of my cities. All in all, it was sweet.

I shoulda screenied it...

**Nestor** · 11-27-2006, 05:30

In the event of a plague take your named characters out of the settlement at once and keep them separated in the countryside for the next turn. I found that there is a good chance they don't get affected on the first turn. You have to be careful though with the message after the next turn to see who is really affected and who is not.

**knoddy** · 11-27-2006, 06:06

i thought about that, but it seemed like soo much effort :P i just let it happen and enjoyed it alot even tho it pwnt me hard lol.

**discovery1** · 11-27-2006, 06:16

Any one do some tests with using plague as a weapon? Say the plague breaks out in one of your cities. You have a spy that gets the plague. You send that spy to a rivals town. Said town is then infected. Repeat.

Is this an effective way of spreading the plague or is it just a pipe dream?

**Werner** · 11-27-2006, 06:20

Originally Posted by discovery1

Any one do some tests with using plague as a weapon? Say the plague breaks out in one of your cities. You have a spy that gets the plague. You send that spy to a rivals town. Said town is then infected. Repeat.

Is this an effective way of spreading the plague or is it just a pipe dream?

You hit the nail on the head. Exactly what I'm in the process of doing now, sending lowly spys to enemy settlements. How evil I am

**knoddy** · 11-27-2006, 06:28

quite possible, but only uselful when u have the normal plague, when the black death rolls in, pretty much every settlement gets it, so its not that useful.

**Beren Son Of Barahi** · 11-27-2006, 06:35

i found the best way to ride out the plague is to sack a city just as it hits, then cancel all your buildings, (the black death stops all your trade, thus your money)stop your building (expenditure) and you shouldn't be having -10k-20k turns... the plague is awsome, after the plague starts to wind down, start hitting the computer hard, they loose just of much as you.