Considering the time era and the addition of Naval battles it just occured to me that these should be represented in some manner.
So my question is, speculation on how CA is going to impliment these people of opportunity.
Some pirates commanded relatively powerful fleets and some were very good admirals as well. Additionally different pirates had diferent relations with the various nations. Will and should pirates be depicted as the simplified 'rebel' faction?
Privateers were endorsed by a nation but not controlled by them. I suppose they could most easily be made as a normal faction fleet that apears as 'rebels' to other factions. But this begs the question, how will the AI handle it's own privateers so as not to use them as other fleets? To attack factions the AI dose not want to go to war with, perhaps are even allied with? Can the AI be deignd to monitor rebel navies behaviour to perhaps realize they actually belong to another faction? Or would it be simpler/better to have the AI randomly know?
Perhaps it would be best to ignore them altogather?
Just some random thoughts. I certainly dont want to see 'Pirates! Total War' but at the same time it dosnt seem right to ignore them either.
Please try my M2TW campaign AI mod and give me some feedback.
http://rtw.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=st&fn=9&tn=6425&f=9,6425,0,365&st=0
So my question is, speculation on how CA is going to impliment these people of opportunity.
Some pirates commanded relatively powerful fleets and some were very good admirals as well. Additionally different pirates had diferent relations with the various nations. Will and should pirates be depicted as the simplified 'rebel' faction?
Privateers were endorsed by a nation but not controlled by them. I suppose they could most easily be made as a normal faction fleet that apears as 'rebels' to other factions. But this begs the question, how will the AI handle it's own privateers so as not to use them as other fleets? To attack factions the AI dose not want to go to war with, perhaps are even allied with? Can the AI be deignd to monitor rebel navies behaviour to perhaps realize they actually belong to another faction? Or would it be simpler/better to have the AI randomly know?
Perhaps it would be best to ignore them altogather?
Just some random thoughts. I certainly dont want to see 'Pirates! Total War' but at the same time it dosnt seem right to ignore them either.
Please try my M2TW campaign AI mod and give me some feedback.
http://rtw.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=st&fn=9&tn=6425&f=9,6425,0,365&st=0