"Deteiorating Health"

[Sorkenlol]

I have 3 or 4 commanders with this trait, they've gotten it quite recently, I'm just wondering how to get rid of it and what the cause is?

[Royalark14]

From personal experience you get them when they are out in the field and start running out of supplies. Keep them in a ship or a city with high religious support and I'm confident they'll get back to healthy.

[Sorkenlol]

Oh, I see, makes sense, they haven't been home for a long while, had 3 of them crusading for jerusalem for a few years, and then straight to denmark and norway, but they usually had foraging, might be cause of all the travel and diseases also.. Most of them has Pnenomia too, don't know what pnenomia is tho.

[Royalark14]

Haha, it's a pretty nasty illness. Got it when I was younger, in the old days it could kill, supposedly killed General Washington in the US. Actually good question, can your generals die on Pneumonia?

[Sorkenlol]

Still not sure what disease it is, the name for english diseases are usually very unlike the name for them in swedish, my mother thinks it's "Lunginflammation" and that you need to take penicillin to cure it, and since they didn't have penicillin back then you would most likely die, but I haven't had any deaths caused by it yet.

Aha, it is "lunginflammation" as my mother said, read it up on wikipedia.

"Pneumonia is an inflammatory illness of the lung."

Some of my generals have Scurvy too as they're out on the sea alot, nasty stuff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Scorbutic_gums.jpg

[Royalark14]

Oh, recently went to Stockholm actually! But getting sidetracked.

This does leave me with two questions:

1. Can your general die of Pneumonia?

2. Can you general die of Scurvy?

3. Can you general's health deterioration finally lead to death?

Just mentioning, this probably is only unique to SS or at least is not in vanilla. Perhaps it would be better if this were moved to the SS Forum.

[Sorkenlol]

No I do think one of my generals had Scurvy in vanilla, but I only played vanilla for a week or so so I'm not sure. However, I'll probably put a Yes after all of those questions, you are most likely to die of pneumonia atleast, not sure about scurvy, but it says on wiki that people sometimes die from it even today. Health Deteioration is probably a first step to some disease, or one of the last steps of the unhealthy traits. I'm going to put them in england for a while and see how it goes, they're all great generals so can't afford none of them to die. One of them had the plague tho, but the duck icon has disappeared.

[pericles_plato]

It lowers the HP of the general. I think it can kill you. Bernie mak died from it.
It may or may not kill the general. Try keeping him somewhere where it gets really cold in winter. in the woods maybe.