Divide et impera/ Disease or no Supply?

[Kenny]

Salvete,

i got a little problem which was also "discussed" in that thread https://steamcommunity.com/app/214950/discussions/0/864978109874818944/
Actually its 8 years old lol, but its exactly the name message which i got, when i am hovering over my diseased army..

"Disease brings death and suffering to our troops. We must appease the gods through sacrifice for the offence we have caused!"

I am playing the divide et impera mod, and dresden diplomatic options mod, thats it. I am playing the Octavian Campaign Map as Octavian himself.

Problem first appeared after i took Syracuse. One or 2 of my armies in that province got diseased and started loosing units round for round (we all know it, i dont wanna get too much in detail)

At the bottom left army stuff, i can see a red icon which tells me something weird about my transportships who cant load any supplies and i need to go to a barbaric faction or whatever.

Anyone know if there is any coherence to my diseased army? I did not step very deep into the supply system in Dei yet, but in all my hours of playtime with it, it never was a real problem as long as i managed to have some of the supply buildings in certain provinces.

But that may be another problem, which is not topic of the thread.

Anyone can tell me , what could "heal" my army? I tried so many things ; other province, waiting for rounds to just wait it out, waiting on water, waiting in a city, waiting in defense position. Nothing worked to me. And of course did i check if there was any special event i had to finish. Also just no. Making a thread here is mostly the very last step of troubleshooting for me. This is destroying my whole experience of playing this great mod. :( I hope u can help me. Thx in advance and sorry for my english. I am not native^^

[BobbyDisastrous]

The region probably does not have enough supplies to supply your army so troops are gradually dying or deserting. Moving an army out or buying a supply wagon will probably help.

[Canadian Ninja]

Your army isn't diseased, it's just using the vanilla system. Transport ships cannot carry supplies, so unless you keep them tied to a fleet with a supply ship they will attrition every turn until they land.

[wjpower2003]

Quite often if you have a diseased army after conquering a settlement it's because the city (or one of it's defending armies) was already in the middle of an outbreak of plague and you contracted it from them.
If that is the case I find it best to quarantine the infected army by moving it to an area that is not in the reinforcement zone of your settlements or armies so that it can cool off and not pass the infection back and forth.

It could also be that the region you just conquered has a sky high squalor level. You can mitigate the regional squalor by raising sanitation through the construction of a temple and maybe the destruction of a building that creates squalor in the region.

It may also be because you are in a region which doesn't yet have the local fertility or subsequent population growth to sustain an army because the land has been ravaged by war. Replenishing the fertility requires moving all ground forces out of the region for however many turns is takes to stabilise fertility. The problem with this being that your newly-conquered settlement would be left exposed.

The last possibility is kind of a silly one but I thought I'd mention it. Do you have enough food to sustain an army? (the small bread icon in the bottom right corner of the screen). Is the numerical value next to it positive or negative? You can turn of tax in a region to see if that restores food to your global food surplus.

Edit: I may be wrong but I don't think that a building used for supply line extension works across the Straits of Messina (although one of the modding team could probably advise better on that point).

[Kenny]

I reaally thank you all for the answers. I will hop in to my savegame and check everything. At least i now can be sure, that it is definetly a matter of supply and not a disease.