Vultures are hovering my cities!

[dannubis]

Originally posted by Louis XXIV
Also, Ancient Athens, while walled up under Spartan seige, got hit by a terrible plague.

which by the way thoroughly saved their asses ... if you capture a city that has the plague and is in your trade network, do you also have the risk of spreading it through your empire ?

[FrostyBoy]

Originally posted by alexman
Wow, I'm really glad plague is not in the epic game!

Not only do I already hate random factors that mess up my carefully planned city growth (disease, barbarians), but also walls are a relatively rarely-built improvement that doesn't need a plaque penalty to make them even more rarely-built.

But thats life alexman.

I love how some people here say things in terms of the game being much easier to play - thus more realistic.

[Saint Marcus]

you can just toggle the plague in the editor, right? (instead of always having to use the seperate scenario).

[Louis XXIV]

Yep

I think you can edit its effect too (to make it more powerful).

[RobC]

Originally posted by notyoueither


It's not the howl. It's a short, higher pitched bark, like a terrier. I can't recall ever hearing it before..

Are you playing as the Maya by any chance?

[dexters]

Originally posted by alexman
Wow, I'm really glad plague is not in the epic game!

Not only do I already hate random factors that mess up my carefully planned city growth (disease, barbarians), but also walls are a relatively rarely-built improvement that doesn't need a plaque penalty to make them even more rarely-built.

I guess you wouldn't want to be president of any country then :P

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by RobC


Are you playing as the Maya by any chance?

No. Against them. I think it is when the jav chucker wins a battle. When I heard it earlier I couldn't see any battles going on. Later, during the war of the Final Mayan Solution, a jav chucker won a battle and I heard the same bark.

Thanks, Rob. It was driving me nuts.

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by notyoueither


No. Against them. I think it is when the jav chucker wins a battle. When I heard it earlier I couldn't see any battles going on. Later, during the war of the Final Mayan Solution, a jav chucker won a battle and I heard the same bark.

Thanks, Rob. It was driving me nuts.

I guess I will have to turn on my speakers to see what it sounds like. I did turn them on during one battle, but did not leave them on long enough to hear anything else.
I tend to not use the sound for TBS games.

[kring]

The Javelin Thrower makes that noise.

On the Plague issue, it can vary widely from game to game. In some of my games, I had little or no plague. In other games, I was having a dozen cities get hit within a few turns several times during the game.

[Arnelos]

I hate plague.

If plague is taken out of the epic game in the retail, that would make my day! Massive trade network-wide plagues across much of my empire were something I absolutely loathed when playing epic games before, so I'd be downright jubilant if I don't have to worry about them anymore. I've been playing only the conquests since getting the retail version, so I guess I'll have to play an epic game to see.

That said, it's certainly more historically accurate to have those massive plagues that force units you want to keep out of your cities and make the Middle Age and early Industrial Age far more interesting at times. While I absoultely loathe it when a plague starts in my cities, I have to admit that I like that they put it into the game.

[lockstep]

Originally posted by Kaos XIII
It should be noted, that the Plague is NOT in the epic game. (At least, I don't think it's in.) But they included a mod, inside labeled "with plague" so that you CAN play the epic game with it.

If I use this mod, will my scores show up in the Hall of Fame?

[Louis XXIV]

Probably not.

[alva]

Slightly OT:
Does disease still strike twice in a row?

[Chieftess]

1 - The plague can strike the same city, but only after it's over.
2 - The bark is the Javelin Thrower. Also, listen to it when it's promoted.

@kaos XIII - Nice shot of my city.

[jkelly]

Historical trivia

Originally posted by Louis XXIV
Also, Ancient Athens, while walled up under Spartan seige, got hit by a terrible plague.

They recently did some genetics work on a mass grave in Athens near the Parthanon, and discovered, to great surprise, that this plague was related to Ebola.