EventAcross the pillars
Fever Below Decks
The heat below decks is a living thing, and the sickness has come with it. Men who stood their watch a week ago now lie sweating in the dark, and the surgeon can do little but count the fallen and hope the rest are spared. Foul water, close quarters, and the airs of the tropics have done what no privateer could.
Target Leader must decide how the fleet answers the fever before it hollows out the crews entirely.
Fired by one of
Flota de Nueva EspañaExpeditionFrom on monthly · right away- Galeones de Tierra FirmeExpeditionFrom on monthly · right away
Triggered by 2
- Flota de Nueva EspañaEach month
- Galeones de Tierra FirmeEach month
Scripting 3
Grants 2
- gf_sickness_doneAs soon as it happens
- Danger LevelOption 2
Uses 1
- change_gold_effectscale = -1Option 3
type = country_event
title = gold_fleet_shared_events.6.title Fever Below Decks
desc = gold_fleet_shared_events.6.desc The heat below decks is a living thing, and the sickness has come with it. Men who stood their watch a week ago now lie sweating in the dark, and the surgeon can do little but count the fallen and hope the rest are spared. Foul water, close quarters, and the airs of the tropics have done what no privateer could.
Target Leader must decide how the fleet answers the fever before it hollows out the crews entirely.
Target Leader must decide how the fleet answers the fever before it hollows out the crews entirely.
outcome = negative
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_at_sea
}
immediate = {
scope:expedition = {
expedition_leader = {
save_scope_as = target_leader
}
pause_expedition = 7
}
}
historical_info = gold_fleet_shared_events.6.historical_info Disease killed far more men aboard the Carrera de Indias than storms or enemy action combined. The long crossings, brackish water, salt provisions, and crowded holds bred scurvy, dysentery, and typhus, while the tropical ports of the Caribbean were reservoirs of malaria and other deadly fevers that could gut a crew within weeks of arrival. A fleet that lingered too long in the Indies risked returning home with too few hands to work the ships, and captains balanced the danger of the sea against the slower, surer danger of the fever.