


And while on the subject of combat, note that in this scenario Encampments and City Centers cannot perform ranged attacks. Also, by using a Caravel, you can pillage each coastal city's Harbor and get an impressive amount of Gold. Fast units (namely, Knights) are, however, useful in pillaging enemy districts and improvements, as pillaging Campuses yields Science, pillaging Theater Squares yields Culture, and pillaging Farms yields HP. So build either Campuses or Theater Squares early on while it is still possible - remember that cities with too few Citizens cannot build new Districts. While you may be tempted to attack neighboring nations if they are weakened by the plague, it is very difficult to keep your armies alive while the plague is spreading, and additionally it's difficult to produce more units with your cities crippled by the plague. You should focus on either producing enough Science or Culture to research either the final technology or civic. The player is also regularly presented with events where one must usually choose between two bad choices, which usually have to do with cities losing yields. Cities with plague also have a high risk of losing Population.īy default, plague-stricken tiles cannot be worked, which makes cities lose a lot more of their Population and yields. If a unit ends its turn on a tile with the plague, it loses 20 HP. In The Black Death, a plague regularly sweeps over the continent, originating from port cities of different nations. The scenario can be won by researching the final technology, Invention, or the final civic, The Middle Class, before 85 turns have passed. There is a multiplayer mode in this scenario. The scenario is set in the medieval times during the Black Death. Your task is to lead your nation through the calamity: keep your population alive, your economy strong, and your faith unshaken amidst a world of terror and desperation.

The pandemic killed millions, ruined economies, upended political dynasties and transformed the face of the Western world.

The Black Death ravaged Europe and Western Asia in the mid-14th century, killing a greater share of the population than any other event in world history.
