Catapult Dies of the Black Death

[Pounder]

I thought it was kind of funny that my catapult was killed by the black death.

 

[toh6wy]

Well, just think of it as the guys who are operating the catapult have been killed.

Too bad there aren't any robot units in the late modern era (like those pilotless planes). Then it would be even funnier if the Black Death killed them.

 

[IroquoisPlisken]

Either that, or someone with the Black Death used the catapult, contaminating it. Then they had to destroy it.

 

[Hunter Noventa]

Still just a funny concept.

 

[Kronis]

Those damned rats infect everything...

 

[Chauliodus]

Those damned rats infect everything...

Fleas~ (Though even the Fleas are still victims of the plague too, it isn't kind to them).

 

[Zandrew]

The rats carried the fleas, they carried the carriers.

 

[Mr. Do]

I've had undead units killed by disease in the mod I play

 

[sabo]

I thought cats were considered artillery, how can artiillery die of black plague?

 

[warpstorm]

The trained operators died.

 

[Mr. Do]

And then their equipment was presumably burnt to stop it spreading.

 

[Kronis]

Fleas~ (Though even the Fleas are still victims of the plague too, it isn't kind to them).

Let's not split hairs. Rats --> Fleas --> Bacteria --> Humans.

For the infection in humans, it's a double-vector. During the European outbreak in the mid-14th Century, tradeships from China (Asia is the perpetual home of Plague) carried the rats with the infected fleas. The disease spread rapidly among the largely unhygienic Europeans, and 25 million people, or almost 1/3 of the population died. Only the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic came close in mortality figures, at 21 million people killed.

 

[t3h_m013]

"Only the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic came close in mortality figures, at 21 million people killed."

pwned

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Only the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic came close in mortality figures

In relative population, the 'Justinian's Plague' in the 6th century was easily more devastating to Europe. And, this is the usual Eurocentric POV anyway - there were lots of equally lethal pandemias in Asia quite frequently, and remember something what, in an alternative history, would be called 'The Great Measles' and 'The Great Tuberculosis' killed about 90% of the native South/Mesoamerican population.

But you're correct about the infection path. On a small note, not sanitation or better hygienic habits saved the Europeans later: The rattus rattus, the carrier of the fleas, and the usual rat population at the times of plagues, was pushed back by the nowaddays rattus norvegicus, which isn't the natural carrier of the vector.

On topic:
The really awesome thing here is that c3c allows to choose who's affected from plague. Why? Because the Kings needed to be immune in MA ...
So, if it bothers you, just remove things like Artillery or Submarines from the list.

 

[Tony595]

I thought it was kind of funny that my catapult was killed by the black death.

it's not as bad as when your relic dies. That's really strange