How does the plague work?

[Coldfire88]

In my Polish campaign the plague has been spreading on and off in my home provinces on average 1 or 2 are infected at a time, but one turn I suddenly find my leader dead from the plague, he was away on a crusade and not in contact with any infected settlement/character, so how was that possible? could it be that units recruited from plagued settlements could infect the leader?

[teks]

I had a nasty plague myself.

The plague is not unique to characters and settlements. Everything gets the plague. Admirals spread the plague, spys spread the plague, soldiers spread the plague. Unless you are completely quarantining the settlements as soon as they are hit, it can quickly spread even to the furthest reaches of your empire. The fact that the plague you have is coming on and off means your likely moving soldiers or agents between infected settlements, which is constantly spreading it. If one soldier was in contact with anything that came from an infected city and was moved into your kings army, he will spread the plague to the entire army. Furthermore the boat used to move him will infect any troops that use it.

While the plague lasts 3-4 turns in cities, units who catch it can keep it for twice as long if they are on the move. Imagine, if a soldier infected one of your boats, that boat will spread the plague everywhere for up to 7 turns. Take the plague seriously. If a city gets it, it is now a death zone. Everyone in it is on their own. Sucks you learned the hard way

[Coldfire88]

Yeah, had no idea it was so contagious that every one and everything spreads it. Well now my new king and heir and a bunch of family members have the plague..

Problem is I am forced to move generals around alot since Im using BGR. edit: nvm just re-read your post.

[teks]

I'm playing BGR myself. I accidentally spread the plague to Constantinople when I moved a siphonatores from the infected city to retrain. I lost my strongest recruitment center for 4 turns, then a jihad was called in the middle of it. I managed to exile the infected army in a fort at my border, but its still not completely gone. I think at least an admiral and 1 character still have it.

I can't imagine how hard it must be if the plague spread unchecked for so long. Maybe just pay off your enemies for a ceasefire, and just keep everyone home until it fades away. Lemme know how it goes it you keep at it.

[TheBard]

I'm playing BGR myself. I accidentally spread the plague to Constantinople when I moved a siphonatores from the infected city to retrain. I lost my strongest recruitment center for 4 turns, then a jihad was called in the middle of it. I managed to exile the infected army in a fort at my border, but its still not completely gone. I think at least an admiral and 1 character still have it.

I can't imagine how hard it must be if the plague spread unchecked for so long. Maybe just pay off your enemies for a ceasefire, and just keep everyone home until it fades away. Lemme know how it goes it you keep at it.

Ha, I am right there with you guys. I'm playing BGR IV on the Crusader States. (And yes, that is as insane as it sounds. I tried VH/H, then H/H, then H/M, and finally have to play on M/M just to survive)

I accidentally spread the plague everywhere just as a jihad was called on Jerusalem in 1160. I actually held out for a long time (Medium battles really helps, obviously), but still lost it to the last two enemy stacks on Jihad, to the Khwarezmians and their damn horse archers.

I took it back eventually, but not before losing like 5-6 family members from plague and battles.