Plague

[andym]

I have a small plague problem,to whit,how do you resolve such an occurance and save the city?Apologies if this has been asked before,i did a search but couldnt find the answer.Itching in anticipation.LOL

[God]

I honestly don't know. I just wait for the plague to finish, but there must be a better way to stop it...

[Tacticalwithdrawal]

shut the gates, let nobody in or out, put your tax to low and wait it out. Build all the sewer buildings you can as well.

One thing to watch for is enemy spies. If you have one in your town it can make the plague last for ages as it'll keep re-infecting the town. Only way round this is to recruit spies of your own to kill him.

Final thing, if you are feeling nasty you can recruit spies in the infected town and then send them off to visit other factions' towns. Each town they enter gets infected and you can keep the diseases going for ages....

[andym]

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Final thing, if you are feeling nasty you can recruit spies in the infected town and then send them off to visit other factions' towns. Each town they enter gets infected and you can keep the diseases going for ages....

Now THIS I LIKE!!!Im off to recruit a few plagued up Spys and sow the Seeds of Doom across the Known world!Mwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[Roger_27]

shut the gates, let nobody in or out, put your tax to low and wait it out. Build all the sewer buildings you can as well.

One thing to watch for is enemy spies. If you have one in your town it can make the plague last for ages as it'll keep re-infecting the town. Only way round this is to recruit spies of your own to kill him.

Final thing, if you are feeling nasty you can recruit spies in the infected town and then send them off to visit other factions' towns. Each town they enter gets infected and you can keep the diseases going for ages....

you can literally "shut the gates"? I never knew that.

[Tacticalwithdrawal]

just be carefull, if you plague a town where the AI is breeding spies ten they will all be infected and head your way.

So on balance it's best used against towns a bit away from you (and don't forget, if you capture a town that is plagued your army catches the plague too)

[andym]

Thanks for the heads up there.i think a recce with my Superspy and most able Assasin to remove a few of the opposition then slip in a few stinkies to stirr things up.Not forgetting to make a healthy withdrawl of forces from the immediated vicinity.

[Tacticalwithdrawal]

if you use your assassin/spy combination to continually burn down his markets in the nearest towns then you not only cripple his economy, but you also stop the production of spies which saves you the problems of infected AI spies.

I actually once destroyed Eygypt as a faction through a combination of assassins and plagues, killed all it's family members. That was very rare but assassin teams destroying markets and sewers, and infected spies spreading disease will quickly bring even a large AI faction to its knees

[Shadows]

and try not to move units, generals and agents around. Keep the infected ones inside the infected city. And don't move any soldiers/generals/agents into the city as already stated.
I wonder if you kill an infected spy with an assassin, does that assassin become infected?? That could make things nasty.

[dashizller]

Actually, you should remove any "characters" from an infected town. I've noticed spies, diplomats, family, etc. hold onto the plague a lot longer than cities. Most of my cities are rid of the plague after 3 or so turns, but one family member kpet it for 7. Had I left him in the city, he would have reinfected the city, then the city would have infected him, etc.

[Shadows]

Really , usually for me the plague leaves about the same time, sometimes a turn or two off, but they don't reinfect each other for me.

[andym]

So having removed the "Characters" from the infected area,where do you put them?keep them in the countryside?Or in another town /city?Surely this would infect the newly entered place?

[Shadows]

So having removed the "Characters" from the infected area,where do you put them?keep them in the countryside?

Thats the best move I see in this situation. I guess that would work, but if you were to forget about them being infected and you combined them into an army or just with some other generals you would be in trouble. I still think it would be easier to outlast the plague by locking down the infected town, but hey you pick what you want to do.

Or in another town /city?Surely this would infect the newly entered place?

Yeah, it definately would spread the plague, something you don't want to happen.

[Tacticalwithdrawal]

if they go into a new town they infect it so if you pull them out of a town just leave them sitting somewhere.

I remeber reading somewhere that pulling them out of a town doesn't actually make any difference to the lenght of time the plague is in the town, but does increse the likelyhood of the character being killed by the plague. Don't know if that is right though.

I wonder if you kill an infected spy with an assassin, does that assassin become infected?? That could make things nasty.

nope, doesn't happen. You can only give an assassin the plague by having him on one of your infected towns (which is pointless as he cannot then pass it on to anyone else other than another of your towns).

[Shadows]

I remeber reading somewhere that pulling them out of a town doesn't actually make any difference to the lenght of time the plague is in the town, but does increse the likelyhood of the character being killed by the plague. Don't know if that is right though.

Now why would it actually increase the likelyhood of the character being killed by the plague?? Well, I guess since the character is no longer near the sewers and other health-related buildings of the town it could affect him more.

[dashizller]

You can't literally shut it. He was saying basically siege your own town. Don't let anyone (meaning single characters like spies) in or out. I once played a test game where I added a bunch of population to all of my cities and let the plague hit. I tried infecting my whole faction and I did. I of course promptly lost.

[Tacticalwithdrawal]

pyou can also use plague to reduce the population in your own cities where the population is getting too high, nasty but effective

[Severous]

Hi

I am watching my first occurance of Plague very closely. As Brutii I sufferred the scripted plague event at Thessolonica.

I noticed that the plague dissappeared in Thessolonica. Great..so now I can move my govenor out and do some overdue rebel bashing. To my horror the plague returned to Thessolonica. As I had a saved game position I replayed the turn. My conclusion. The City was clear of plague but the govenor still had it. As soon as I moved the govenor out of the city it reinfected the city. If I left the govenor in place the plague cleared completely.

Ive currently got a plague infected spy & ship thats visiting distant Scipii ports. That will give Carthage and Numibia a better chance. Preserving a balance of power at the western end of the med will make it easier when the time comes late in the game for me to march on Rome. I dont want an all powerful Scipii waiting for me.

[Hader]

Hi

I am watching my first occurance of Plague very closely. As Brutii I sufferred the scripted plague event at Thessolonica.

I noticed that the plague dissappeared in Thessolonica. Great..so now I can move my govenor out and do some overdue rebel bashing. To my horror the plague returned to Thessolonica. As I had a saved game position I replayed the turn. My conclusion. The City was clear of plague but the govenor still had it. As soon as I moved the govenor out of the city it reinfected the city. If I left the govenor in place the plague cleared completely.

Ive currently got a plague infected spy & ship thats visiting distant Scipii ports. That will give Carthage and Numibia a better chance. Preserving a balance of power at the western end of the med will make it easier when the time comes late in the game for me to march on Rome. I dont want an all powerful Scipii waiting for me.

Good strategy.

[andym]

Moving the characters out has worked a treat,however they are still infected,i think it maybe because they are both together reinfecting each other,time to split them i think.