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Unethical means, such as throwing Insects & rotting bodies through a catapult to spread plague were used often in History.
So, maybe a new Catapult-like unit that causes poison effect in a 3x3 area?
The unit itself will be very weak & decrease Morale around it, because "rotting bodies" eh.

I like it but the poison mechanic should affect only buildings and it will need a cooldown to stop it from becoming op, i think making production slower by adding 1 turn should be good engouh

Maybe keep the base damage 0. So it only Inflict poison status & no immediate damage. Also, since poison can't stack, so it won't be that OP.
Basically, it promotes more diverse armies than simply spamming knights etc. & also make healers more important in the game. & decreasing morale means decreasing armor so its more like a double edged sword. PS the cooldown idea is cool

Yeah your suggestion works better, now what should it specifically be like a catapult or a corpse wagon?

Catapult-like.
What's a corpse Wagon? Do you mean we have to supply corpses?

a wagon filled with corpses they were often left outside castles and forts to bring disease, now in the regard of supply I honestly have no idea

Then definitely catapult like. A wagon like that won't have any uses

so it should launch dead animals, people, or wut?

Let's not do that. Reloading with bodies will require too many changes in the game.

then what?, I suggest throwing corpses with cooldown no need to collect them or anything

Agreed. Just a catapult like throw but with a cooldown

cool now we need an image any suggestions?

No Idea really. Just did a quick google, maybe something like this?

Haha thats from warhammer fanatasy, I think we should only reskin the catapult

Fine with me.
Also, can we have a swordman equivalent of the poison archer? Like a poison swordsman..

Simething like that was discussed before and it wasnt well received, what do you have in mind? Like an assasin?

Actually, I was thinking of a new building that trained "unconventional" methods of warfare. Those being- this corpse catapult, poison archers, spies, Assasins, poison-swordsman (maybe) and a few other ideas.

Sounds good but you should add more units so it can be considered in the meta

Okay that goes on the to-do list.
Now, can anyone help me with the image design for this corpse catapult?

Send a request to strstego for the catapult sprite

The best if u use the disease(as poison variant - what can spread tile by tile -)

Also check the plague doctor topic

Spreading disease would be too OP. The opponent would have to eradicate the disease in one turn or it would just spread again. Maybe such a thing could be countered by a high cost or something.

# pestilence

In most medieval thematic game
(with a bit late antic and early renesans oh and Spaceship) wud be a great addition with all feeling. And fun aside of other aura buildings (Eg well - prevents fire within 3 range)
(infecting their well and their own Base will kill em )

we may put a corpse(finally) what spreads the disease

I said to check the plague doctor bcos I think we talked about this.

Mainly - disease high dmg, non stacking
can be healed, upon death lives an infecting corpse what infects nearby units within a certain range - Aura (regardless we know not always that the reason for spreading it)

Corpse can be burned.

Ctapult has cd(reload) no/minimal dmg
And 30% miss chance on infection
(not affected by speed /speel res)
Range 6-8

We either make summon corpse (100%)
Or hit target (70%)- who lives a corpse after death)

May make infected corpse with chance but idk.

Also don't forget that disease can infect u too.
The enemy sends his/her knight to u - REVENGE

Risky gamble

Now we need a grotesque img
Or two..

I absolutely love this idea, biochemical warfare has been a thing basically forever and would be cool to implement.
Ideas
Academy: unit production. Produces
Disease catapult
Healer
Spy
Assassin
Ninja
Amazon blowgun
Poison archer
Biological warfare *(tech)
Plague doctor?