HELP!!! Death Stalks The Land..

[Zoooom]

What to do when i get Death Stalks The Land? And it affects my King, Family Members etc.. Please help :)

Best Regards,

Mathias

[Shahed]

Take them out of the settlement they're in and put them out in the country somewhere in a plague colony. If a plague hits while your guys art in a settlement take them out (doh) but also check the portrait to see if there's a little (ohh soooo CUTE!! ???) little black rat on the portrait. If there is then he's got the DISEASE.

You can also use spies to spread the plague in enemy nations. Just sit them in a settlement which has the rats and once the spy has it send him waltzing around.

If you suffer from population control problems, the same can be applied to your own cities.

[Lord Ovaat]

Along with what Sinan does, I also separate my characters outside. They seem to keep infecting each other, and generally heal/die quicker alone. Whatever you do, don't move any non-characters out thinking you'll save troops. Just the opposite; the captain gets infected and keeps infecting the army. Remember that spies, assassins, priests, dips, princesses, merchants are characters and need to be quarantined. Can't avoid the plague; coded into the campaign by turn and location. Part of the history of the period. Enjoy.

[Shahed]

Points taken.

[Odin]

What to do when i get Death Stalks The Land? And it affects my King, Family Members etc.. Please help :)

Best Regards,

Mathias

Welcome to the forums !

What you do is watch your faction die.... no one escapes the black death friend !

Seriously, i dont know I have been affected by it as well, I dont think there is a building that eliminates it only mitagates the damage.

Buckle up and hold on and hope for the best.

[Shahed]

You can also avoid it to some degree by controlling squalor and building health bonus buildings. If your governor has a doctor etc you can have health bonuses. There are also traits which give health bonuses IIRC.

Best thing to do now is like I said, get them out of the affected settlements and SIT them somewhere. They may survive, I know lots of mine have.

Prevention is better though, build larger walls, increase tax rates and control population growth best you can.

[_Tristan_]

if the plague has already struck...You only have to wait, hope and pray (if you are so minded...)...

To be serious, the plague will last around 5 or 6 turns...

The danger being in moving troops around..Do Not move any units or agents from the plagued cities to any other of yours (the enmy cities are good havens as he will start to get those nice black buttons...)

Wait it out... At the end of it, your population will be that much lower and so your squalor...

As for your units, they will lose some men so it is as good a time as may be to send offensives on all fronts (losing diseased troops is less costly as losing healthy ones...)

Hope that helps...

[Shahed]

Moving the troops to the front will increase the duration and possibility of spread, unless the front is an affected settlement.

[FactionHeir]

I usually just leave everyone the way they are when they are plague stricken. No need to move them out. If you do, just don't move em in again is all.
As for black death, once you get the warning, move all generals (agents too actually) out of the town (like 1 square out) and have them wait till the plague in their town is over. Don't worry about riots as those will die down with plague. Also, some settlements are never affected by the black death. Arguin and Edinburgh and 2 others.

[gardibolt]

The worst part about the Black Death (as opposed to a localized plague) is that it completely destroys your economy for half a dozen turns. That turned out to be useful in my game because it forced me to go around and disband all those mercs I had kept on retainer through inertia---really helped trim the fat out of my finances.

[Captain Pugwash]

Plague marker???

I see the rats for the town but never on the characters portrait. In anticipating the plague I moved all my top bods out of town, When it passed I moved them back and then the rats reappeared. So if you can catch it in the open how do you know whether you have it or not?

[_Tristan_]

Moving the troops to the front will increase the duration and possibility of spread, unless the front is an affected settlement.

What I meant was to send those armies against your opponents, that way, if you ever lose men fighting it might be men you would have lost due to the plague...

Use those armies to attack enemy cities, sack or exterminate, destroy any or all buildings and march forward leaving only ruins, desoltation and death in your wake... Normally, when the plague ends you might find yourself facing somme rebel settlements, easy pickings...

[Shahed]

Good plan. Actually no, that's a great plan.

[Zoooom]

Thanks ! :)