Strange but true...

[Rain]

Funny thing happened on the way to the forum...

"Advisor pops up ~ your tank died from disease" lol.
Apparently if you leave a unit in the jungel too long it can expire.

 

[Black Fluffy Lion]

heh...don't make tanks like they used to now

 

[napoleon526]

This happened to my spearman once, but I didn't think that it could happen to units later in the game.

 

[Jason Fox]

I've lost citizens and workers to disease related to jungles and flood plains, but haven't lost a military unit yet. I'd rather lose a spearman than a worker most of the time, though.

 

[Hamlet]

heh, must be a very vicious disease!

 

[kundor]

well, stationing military units in jungles really can be dangerous...the yellow fever and malaria outbreaks while building the panama canal show that workers dying while working in jungle is quite true...and non-jungle peoples often get diseases from the mosquitoes in jungles.
But, once medicine is perfected, this doesn't happen very much...so, say, Modern Armor shouldn't be affected.
Anyway...yes, that was funny.

 

[chaucer]

It could have rusted. The jungle is wet afterall.

 

[Jersey Joe]

Maybe it just sank outa sight.

 

[simwiz2]

i think something like that happened to the second napoleon - he sent an army to quell a revolt in haiti and his whole army died of yellow fever. its kind of wierd for that to happen to a tank division though!

 

[Caranamrta]

And why not, Simwiz2?

Tanks don't defend the men in them from the diseases of the jungles. For example, the food, the water and the air, which is consumed by the drivers of the tanks, can contain deadly microorganisms. When these microorganisms are, for example, Ebola-viruses, they can kill all the men in the tanks.

 

[simwiz2]

it just seems like a civ with tanks should have cures/treatment for most jungle diseases. Maybe it should be less likely to lose units in the modern age, or something.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Oh come on, I think we're ignoring what's really strange: that a modern armor unit can drive around in the jungle at all! Even if it could avoid the trees, it would (as others have noted): sink out of sight, or rust.

 

[simwiz2]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk
Oh come on, I think we're ignoring what's really strange: that a modern armor unit can drive around in the jungle at all! Even if it could avoid the trees, it would (as others have noted): sink out of sight, or rust.

Good point. A tank would need a road to get across a jungle, and even a mountain. So maybe they should be wheeled.

 

[Spunky Alven]

Ithink taht tanks can be used in jungel, they used tanks in ww2 in jungel areas so it is possible.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally posted by Spunky Alven
Ithink taht tanks can be used in jungel, they used tanks in ww2 in jungel areas so it is possible.

To my knowledge, the closest anyone in WW2 came to using tanks in the jungle was the japanese: they buried them and used them as bunkers! Tanks would have to stay on the road and nowhere else to be combat capable in jungle terrain, which hardly makes them useful at all.

 

[dikwhit]

ive had it happen also. Im sitting there my armor dies and im like WTH? is there quicksand in there noone told me about?

 

[sealman]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk


To my knowledge, the closest anyone in WW2 came to using tanks in the jungle was the japanese: they buried them and used them as bunkers! Tanks would have to stay on the road and nowhere else to be combat capable in jungle terrain, which hardly makes them useful at all.

My recollection is the same.