HELP!!! Death Stalks The Land..

**Shahed** · 04-10-2007, 15:54

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

**FactionHeir** · 04-10-2007, 15:57

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** · 04-10-2007, 16:11

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** · 04-11-2007, 21:53

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?

**Chaos Cornelius lucius** · 04-11-2007, 22:07

I am wondering if it is coded into the game for the plague to hang around unseen in settlements for a certain number of turns after the black death has passed. I have followed the line of moving my generals out of settlements to avoid plague, only to have them catch it when I move them back into settlements a turn or two after the black death has supposedly died down. Has anyone else noticed this?

**Bobo** · 04-11-2007, 22:56

Originally Posted by 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?

They are in the top right of the portrait (but not completely in the corner) - look very carefully. (I can't post a picture right now.)
Also, when a city as finally cured from the plague, the governor will still have a rat in his portrait for another turn, so he can infect others again. Don't move him yet! This probably counts for agents as well.

**todorp** · 04-11-2007, 23:03

The plague starts by two ways. First by MTW2 scripts, you can mitigate by building buildings with health bonuces. Second is brought by enemy spies, you can kill them if you have your own spies in the city.

**Bobo** · 04-11-2007, 23:29

Originally Posted by todorp

The plague starts by two ways. First by MTW2 scripts, you can mitigate by building buildings with health bonuces. Second is brought by enemy spies, you can kill them if you have your own spies in the city.

What exactly is the effect of the health bonuses? Less people dying, less chance of your generals dying, shorter duration of the epidemics?

Also, the rat is in the upper left corner, not right.

**_Tristan_** · 04-10-2007, 16:07

Originally Posted by Sinan

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...