My unit just dropped dead!

[MajorFallout]

Anyone had any of their units just drop dead while standing on a jungle square for ages? I just witnessed one of my knights just die on me because of desease, so the caption said! That was weird.

 

[Turner]

It happens.

Don't leave them in the jungle, they won't die like that.

 

[morchuflex]

I had never heard about that. Frightening!

 

[Pounder]

Maybe it is Ebola.

 

[Admiral8Q]

Old wolves do not die gracefully. Jungles can be the doom of all.

 

[thunder]

Not just jungle but marsh (swamp) lands as well.

 

[King Alexander]

It has happened to me, too, after parking one unit on jungle for ages(it took many turns to happen).

 

[LLXerxes]

it says in the Civilopedia jungle contains disease, which can kill units after a time.

 

[Zakharov]

You should not leave units on the three diseased tile types or they will die after a few turns. These are:
1) Jungle
2) Flood plains (safe after sanitation)
3) Marsh (in C3C)

 

[mrtn]

I suspect that the unit was fortified...

 

[fe3333au]

Does it die quickly without warning or is there a slow decrease in hit/health points

 

[El Justo]

i wonder if you disable the "causes disease" flag in the editor if it will cure this issue.

 

[dgfred]

i wonder if you disable the "causes disease" flag in the editor if it will cure this issue.

Hi John, I bet you already know the answer to that . What is your new
avatar about? Just curious.

 

[El Justo]

greg!

where've ya been?

i guess it will work... i was genuinely asking though.

re the avatar:
it's a picture of Emilio Aguinaldo who was the leader of the Filipino insurgent forces vs the americans in the philippines, 1899-1902. i'm doing my thesis on it the Philippine-American War. not many people know about this war either...

 

[Zakharov]

i wonder if you disable the "causes disease" flag in the editor if it will cure this issue.

Yes it will stop units dying. It is the fact that a unit is standing in a diseased tile that is the problem, not the specific type of terrain. If for example you edited grassland to cause disease then units would die on those tiles too.

 

[puglover]

My Gallic Warrior died like that. Poor dude.

But yeah, I learned my lesson. Malaria is a mean foe.

 

[Babbler]

Never happen, as with units dying in flood plains.

My cities have often been hit, although.

 

[AA-battery]

Does it die quickly without warning or is there a slow decrease in hit/health points

I think they have something similar to that in Civ4 perhaps.

I believe your units only die if they are fortified in the tile...

 

[viper275]

I had a worker on a volcano die once.

 

[Cheeze]

Well...D'you mean from disease? Or just molten lava upwards of 1300 degrees Fahrenheit being poured upon his head?