Pillaging trade routes and attacking naval units without a declaration of war is the Privateer kit, which the Sloop replaces (Pirates don't need anyone's permission, yar!). The thing that makes the Sloop special is the extra movement and moving after attacking. Teach grants the Privateer kit to all his naval units.
I assumed it might be a unique fleet commander. It doesn't say what kind does it?
I hope you are right! I assumed that "commander" without qualifiers means the baseline version, but it could just be a vague description.
Continuity is not a cheaty setting on standard age length, default speed. You can't have gold together with all you want, you still have to prioritize hardly. Also, continuity is the default setting, so the game clearly needs to be balanced around it and closing loopholes for those civilizations is one of the needed things.
I mean, if we're being this pedantic, the Royal Navy didn't incorporate Scottish elements until 1707, so there was a good 7 years where the Royal Navy was, in fact, an English fleet
I merely meant that there's no England, France or Netherlands in the exploration age.I mean, if we're being this pedantic, the Royal Navy didn't incorporate Scottish elements until 1707, so there was a good 7 years where the Royal Navy was, in fact, an English fleet
Standard speed, standard length is how I play. Immortal, since that gives the most enjoyable antiquity era. I found I was snowballing much harder at the start of exploration with the setting on - boats on the correct coastal tiles turn 1, settlers at the ready, merchants parked at the target cities - which accelerated all of my progress in exploration, and as a result, I was able to carry over enough gold to buy several explorers on turn one of modern if that's what I wanted, or otherwise keep it to outright fund a few rail stations and factories. That's all intentional. Carrying over units like settlers is by design, and Mongolia and Pirates are able to utilise settlers.
Yes, that's my experience as well and I think yields should be tobed down, but I don't see it as cheating.
Man I went straight for the history route, my bad! Though I do think Sar was posting historical context too.
They could probably just make Antiquity/Exploration/Modern Settlers.... and say you need to upgrade them to use them in the new Age.... Mongol cost Extra to upgrade them, Pirates can't. (you just end up with some expensive scouts)
Those excerpts are historical info and often include groups of people who aren't in the game, at least yet.
Indeed, there are a whole lot of these non-in-game(-yet) references. England is also referred in the Norman description for example.
Providing that attacking without a declaration of war has diplomatic repercussions, I think Harriet Tubman would pair nicely with them. Also, the leaked version of Sayyida would too. And Isabella, who has a bonus for purchasing and maintaining naval units.
Isabella actually seems like she might be best for Iceland (Culture bonus for Natural Wonders)
Sure, but her suite compliments the Pirates too.
I smell an overhaul mod
If I understand it correctly, you target another civ's treasure resource, and that settlement (belonging to the other civ) immediately produces its next Treasure Convoy, which you control instead of that civ. But you can't do it to that settlement again until after the turn that settlement would have produced a Treasure Convoy for its owner.
