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Hungry Forties

Disease and death in every quarter – the once hardy population worn away to emaciated skeletons – fever, dropsy, diarrhea, and famine rioting in every filthy hovel, and sweeping away whole families...seventy-five tenants ejected here, and a whole village in the last stage of destitution there…dead bodies of children flung into holes hastily scratched in the earth without shroud or coffin…every field becoming a grave, and the land a wilderness.

• In 1843, an outbreak of Potato Blight will impact New England and nearby states, harming subsistence output.
  
• In 1845, the initial wave of Blight will reach Europe, impacting output in the British Isles, France, Rhine, Prussia, and Sweden.
  
• In 1846, the Blight will return with a vengeance, causing severe subsistence loss in North Germany, Rhine, and Denmark. Ireland and the Scottish Highlands will suffer a total collapse of the peasant food supply.
  
• Great Britain recieves a short Irish Famine Journal Entry with a few events and options for responding to the crisis.
  
• Also in 1846, the Grain harvest will fail across Europe, impacting the food supply even more.
  
• After 1848, the potato blight can rarely return as a Harvest Condition.

• Great Britain now begins the game with Mercantilism
  
• Corn Laws JE can now complete by passing Protectionism and lowering grain prices sufficiently
  
• Corn Laws JE will now invalidate if grain prices drop to baseline even without changing trade laws