Check out my post of a few days back. It's the one with the two "spoiler" entries. It should give you some idea of what's going on.
I suspect all these Treasure Galleons are sailing out of Cartagena, heading north via San Juan, and then veering northwest toward the exit area along the northern edge of the map, near northern Florida. Basically, to catch all these pesky Treasure Galleons, you need to picket all passages from St Kitts all the way to Florida. Trouble is, later in the game Spain will be sending Flag Galleons and Frigates after your ships. Beware, matie!
You need to pile up more than 100,000 gold (used to score victory points) before 1710 (give or take a few years), After that, Spain will probably win the game. Don't waste money with expensive land warfares or massive research. You'll reach the end of the tech tree soon enough.
Early on, Spain is basically helpless. It's near bankruptcy and can't affort to build troops or research much of anything. You need to hit Spain early and as cheaply as possible. And of course, you can't afford to miss too many of these Treasure Galleons either.
Great help Ambreville, thanks a lot!!!
Anyhow I have the same errors as before, I mean:
1. I can't select Spain to play because the game crash
2. If I select anybody else (Morgan so far yet) the game crash several turns later
Any idea???
I have the last Warlords patch v 2.08, I deleted previous version, downloaded and reinstalled ver 1.1 of Pirates, but still the same behavior