All Era Privateers

[Colonel]

Instead of makeing Privateers as a unit you should be able to declare certian ships in all eras Privateers. The draw back is if you had alot (alot based on land mass number of cities and population) you would get caught sometimes if you were attacking and lost you could get caught. The more ships the more chance to get caught.

 

[rbis4rbb]

I like the idea.

 

[Teabeard]

Well, in all eras except the modern era. I mean, there is Piracy on the seas today but there is no longer privateers. So I say every age except the modern age for Privateers.

 

[Yuri2356]

Perhaps modern privateers could only use smaller ships? (It wouldn't make much sense to give a battleship to some band of pirates, but they could easily have a small gunship or Cruiser.)

 

[Colonel]

Also with this idea there would also be Pirates as well. Basically what they have now only alot more prevalent. So you could be well into the modern age and see alot of random pirates besides the Privateers that you have as well as the AI

 

[rhialto]

I think privateers are a good idea, but teh implementation ws wrong. First, give teh barbarians a decent ai. Second, any time a military unit is disbanded outside a city, it gets handed over to the barbarian civ. A privateer is simply a built ship that has been hadn't over to pirates in this model.

This model also works well for state sponsored terrorists such as Osama in the seventies..