MTheil3508
Prince
Do you use Privateers in you Navy? If so, how?
Do you use Privateers in you Navy?
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Architekt
Prince
Yes: put it this way.. In the race to colonise the rest of the world after navigation is discovered..it is usefull to sink a rival colonator
without the instigation of war.
without the instigation of war.
MTheil3508
Prince
Do you think that Privateers should be upgraded or at least upgraded through the eras; an attack point here, a defense point there.
A Privateer againt any modern ship is a waste of resouces. You would need quite a few ships to put a dent in a destroyer.
To add a diffenent aspect, you could add the bombardment ability to Privateers. Make havoc on unsuspecting allies and opponents.
By the way, good ideas so far.
A Privateer againt any modern ship is a waste of resouces. You would need quite a few ships to put a dent in a destroyer.
To add a diffenent aspect, you could add the bombardment ability to Privateers. Make havoc on unsuspecting allies and opponents.
By the way, good ideas so far.
DiamondzAndGunz
Lurking
I totally agree. They're great to keep ur rivals away... Especially if they're still using triremes, as they often do.
Yup, they really should be, although i don't know how that might fit into the real world.... terrorists, maybe?
GerrardCapashen
Benalish Master-at-Arms
No, I never use privateers as I am not afraid of going to war with an enemy civ and hidden nationality is all the privateers are useful for.
Nope, never built any either. No time, most of the time or too busy with other priorities...
No time, most of the time or too busy with other priorities...
Shabbaman
rebuffing the rebels
Privateers lure enemy navy. That can come in handy, but who cares about navies anyway?
Globetrotter
...wherever i may roam...
Playing with Deity, very often i'm behind in tech, and when it comes to privateers, the other civs have their destroyers roaming around...
Darkness
Shadow creature
No, don't build any navy except the occasional battleship to escort the occasional transport
Xiasar
Chieftain
Almost impossible to use, their fire power is limited, they are very slow (as slow as subs) and most of all.....every time I've built them I couldn't catch any advantage in having them!
Except for my game on diety where i was ahead in tech, by the time i can build privateers, they have battleships so un-modded privateers die really quick and all they do is give the AI elite naval uints
To answer the poll, i play w/ them modded.
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
I've never used them in vanilla Civ3 or PTW, but they're really useful when modded as in the DYP mod (distributed with PTW). There they are stronger, faster and: they have bombardment! So I use them to destroy the AIs resources during peacetime....
So, for the poll, I use them modded.
So, for the poll, I use them modded.
nalves
sailing in a NAU
I agree that thei are not very usefull because of the low fire power.
Thwy should be upgraded, at least to the level of a frigate.
Thwy should be upgraded, at least to the level of a frigate.
Skullbones
Captain
They are practically useless and I only build them in modded games where I've increased there speed and attack.
West German
Warlord
I sometimes use them to sink AI galleies and if I am lucky, frigates.
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