How to get rid of Skaven plague?

[GodEmperor]

So yeah, attacking a big Skaven territory and managed to cause a bunch of damage but now my army got plagued. 5 turns later, lost 90% of my troops, can't regenerate because of the plague, and checking the turns remaining on the plague, it says 5 turns left. How the hell am I supposed to get rid of this plague? Or is the stack just doomed to die? I've got some Patrol Houses in the area but it doesn't remove the plague, just prevents it from spreading.

[Havean]

Yeah if you are infected you have to wait it out.

[Zohan Dwir]

Plague is one of the most stupid mechanics in the game. Annoying thing you can't do much about. If they made something you could do to cure plague or avoid plague that would be good. This way, palgues, just like skaven are just plain annoying to play against. No fun. Bad design!

[cernodan]

There isn't much you can do, only wait.
What I usually do, if I can afford it, is to either park that lord out to sea or simply dismiss the army+lord and get a new one, who's not suffering from rat aids.

[Aleera]

Novel concept. Instead of letting the plagued army exist. Disband it and recruit a new one.

Each time it spreads back to the army, it resets it's duration to 5 turns. The patrol buildings merely make it less likely to spread towards that city, it does nothing to prevent it spreading to armies.

[Ashardalon]

instead of just disbanding and hiring a new army that will be similarly plagued by the dirty rats
send them on a suicidal charge into the enemy
capture all what they can
yes those places will also be plagued, but a city can wait things out better then an army
just dont recruit from there

[Aleera]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

instead of just disbanding and hiring a new army that will be similarly plagued by the dirty rats
send them on a suicidal charge into the enemy
capture all what they can
yes those places will also be plagued, but a city can wait things out better then an army
just dont recruit from there

Sounds a wrong move tbh.
You're giving the enemy exp and gold by sending your army into a suicide. He did state he lost 90% of his units.

And no a city actually gets more damage from the plague then a army. A city cannot get attrition resistance unless it's siege. Armies can.

A new army that's not plagued, will not spread a plague to a nearly captured settlement, unlike your suicide run idea.