How do you Deal with The Black Death?

[Mr. Do]

In games where the plague is enabled, how do you deal with it when it starts up? Particularly, with border cities.

I usually go to the trouble to empty my cities of troops, but in my latest game this made one of my powerful neighbours spazz out and invade to capture a newly empty border city. But if I'd left the troops in the cities they could've died, and then I'd get the same happen anyway...

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Put the units in the 8 surrounding squares around the city (Or the tiles facing enemy cities/borders) to protect it. Unless you are a Monarchy/Communist/Facist/Feudalist/Despotic government, you won't have any effect on happiness because of MPs. I played one game with the plague - I just left the units in the city. Only 1 or so died, so it's not that big. If that happens, just build a new one. (PS: Unless you have the strength of the plague *really* high, it's better just the leave the units in the city, in my opinion).

 

[LLXerxes]

Extra garrisons.

 

[galvanocentric]

In games where the plague is enabled, how do you deal with it when it starts up? Particularly, with border cities.

I usually go to the trouble to empty my cities of troops, but in my latest game this made one of my powerful neighbours spazz out and invade to capture a newly empty border city. But if I'd left the troops in the cities they could've died, and then I'd get the same happen anyway...

I took advice from my good buddy Ghengis Khan.
I used the Black Death to my advantage, building it up so it spread to each city on my ickle island, which included the cities of my enemy. Because I had the tactical advantage, I was better able to recoup from the losses and I then swarmed in and decimated him.
In theory, much of the same strategy used against England during the 1200ish period... Don't quote me on the years, I didn't show up for a great many history classes.

 

[Proserpine]

In games where the plague is enabled, how do you deal with it when it starts up? Particularly, with border cities.

I usually go to the trouble to empty my cities of troops, but in my latest game this made one of my powerful neighbours spazz out and invade to capture a newly empty border city. But if I'd left the troops in the cities they could've died, and then I'd get the same happen anyway...

It's the Black DEATH. Just deal with it, Ok?

 

[Proserpine]

I took advice from my good buddy Ghengis Khan.
I used the Black Death to my advantage, building it up so it spread to each city on my ickle island, which included the cities of my enemy. Because I had the tactical advantage, I was better able to recoup from the losses and I then swarmed in and decimated him.
In theory, much of the same strategy used against England during the 1200ish period... Don't quote me on the years, I didn't show up for a great many history classes.

England spent the Plague years (around 1348 to 1355 or so) plaguing the hell out of France - the Hundred Years War kicked off in the 1330s. The last successful invasion of England was 1066. And England ended the Plague period stronger than before (everyone else had the same trouble, they had all that French loot, the population was too dense for the time until thinned out by the Plague, etc). Plus Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, died and his son David managed to get himself captured by the English, ending the "Celtic" (har-dee-har) threat. And Edward III (the swine), 1337 to 1370-something, was one of the great Kings of England, more like his Grandpa than his dad if a bit more humane than the former (though not averse to burning down the odd city now and again).

Pretty much the whole of Europe suffered equally from the Plague, there was no real "competitive advantage".

 

[Mr. Do]

It's the Black DEATH. Just deal with it, Ok?

Why did you even bother responding?

 

[Juka The Dumb]

and what do you have to build to get rid of it?or do you just pray and wait for the mighty Lord to help you with your great misfortune. god bless us all

 

[Pounder]

I do like Ginger Ale said, move units out of the cities so they don't get killed.

 

[Juka The Dumb]

but pounder you didn't understand,i'm asking if the wise-men can cure it?

 

[Pounder]

but pounder you didn't understand,i'm asking if the wise-men can cure it?

Juka, I was just making a comment to Mr.Do's first post on how to deal with Black Death. Sorry, I wasn't responding to how to cure it, BTW, you just have to ride it out.