Can you manage or avoid "Black Death"?

[Dutch Leader1]

I am now busy with Middle Age/Conquest, playing Germany...

Everything works out well, but yesterday I had in "one session" 5 times Cities who were confronted with the "Black Death"(Plague)!!
At first I did nothing at all...
Later on I brought all the military units to an another city.(Abandon city)
Then I started a new city with a Settler..

After this experience I thought: There should be a way to eliminate the "Black Death" or is there a "Cure" to avoid the "Black Death"(Plague)?

Can somebody help me or give me any suggestions?

Many thanks when you can help me!!

Greetings, Roland
aka Dutch Leader1

 

[thetrooper]

I built workers once, can't remember if that made it go away though. I also moved my defenders out of the affected cities.

It is quite annoying

 

[Grohan]

That's why I allways try to win this conquest before 1346.

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Plague is a semi-random event that goes away after a while. The AI suffers it just as badly as the human and it goes away after the preset # of turns as set in the editor. The 'trade level' of the city affects the chances of a city getting it. Some have interpreted that to mean you should disconnect all cities from trade routes but i don't recommend it. All you can do is move most of your units out of the cities so they don't get killed and wait it out. King and flag units don't die from it.

 

[Dux_]

Relics do die though

It died the one I had conquer from the French.

 

[Dutch Leader1]

Dear CIV- friends,

Many thanks for all your suggestions, tips and suggestions!!

In my "session" yesterday evening I noticed that the plague was gone after some turns...

And the nicest experience was that I have won the Conquest!
Although it took 6 hours and 57 minutes...

I wish everybody a nice gaming time with Civ3!

Greetings, Roland
aka Dutch Leader1
Now I'll take a sigarette

 

[Dutch Leader1]

I mean: Many thanks for all your ideas, tips and suggestions!

 

[thetrooper]

@Dutch Leader1: there is a "edit" button for each post. You can use that...

 

[Bluemofia]

Meh, the plague only made me over react. I sort of destroyed the city with the Plague beyond recongnition, and then killed all the units in the city and sent the ships there to the middle of the ocean and disbanded them. The next time I ignored it and all it did was kill 1 citizen.

 

[Michelangelo]

King and flag units don't die from it.

Do you also mean armies by flag units? In recently played this conquest and I lost an army to the plague.

This wasn't to bad as I had just managed to get enough victory points to win, so after the AI turns (in between turns) it said "You are victorious"

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Flag units are the relics in the middle ages conquest but as Dux_ pointed out, they do die even though they should be immune. It's 'flag' as in 'capture the flag' or 'reverse capture the flag'.

 

[Dutch Leader1]

TheTrooper,

I thank you for the "Edit" tip! I didn't know it!
My homelanguage is Dutch, so sometimes I don't understand the options right away!

Greetings, Roland (aka Dutch Leader1)

 

[namliaM]

Hey DL geetz from Amsterdam

 

[Dutch Leader1]

Greetings! namliaM

Alles goed in Amsterdam? Leuke stad Amsterdam! Mijn vrouw is geboren in Amsterdam..

 

[namliaM]

LOLz How is it posible that she is now living in Rotterdam?

What level do you play at? Maybe try a game 1vs1?