I think you're doing something wrong! I've seen the AI (Mongols, I think) build literally over a dozen basic sea units when they had only two cities, which I had to capture with privateers and then allow to be destroyed by even more Mongol sea units. (Better they destroy a captured caravel than my Privateer!)
Oh my god, the Sea Beggars are incredible.
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I think you're doing something wrong! I've seen the AI (Mongols, I think) build literally over a dozen basic sea units when they had only two cities, which I had to capture with privateers and then allow to be destroyed by even more Mongol sea units. (Better they destroy a captured caravel than my Privateer!)
Peng Qi
Emperor
Healing at sea is everything. It means your navy has an effectively infinite range, while other civs need to limp back to a friendly port to heal.
AI using Sea Beggar wolfpack:
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Cool screenshot, what's that circle at the bottom with the number 382 in it?
I enabled Turn Timer (to practice MP-style decision making).
woodshadows
King
Play on Emperor
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That looks like such a fun map to play, I never get maps like that.. what map size/type are you using there?
One of the rare Standard-sized Small Continents that isn't a Pangaea in disguise.
norwegian1982
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Can you attack other units and cities, without starting a war? (As in, they will not know who sent the ship.) Like a Privateer not flying your colours.
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
No. Privateers generally flew their country's colors when they attacked (they did occasionally use different colors to get close, but that's a little different). When Francis Drake attacked Spanish ships, everyone knew it was the English attacking and, given the Spanish Armada, I'm not entirely sure the Spanish didn't view themselves as at war.
On a more practical level, Sea Beggars are obviously Dutch, so hidden nationality would make no sense.
In reality, Civ5 is actually more accurate here. It's just Civ3 and Civ4 that confused people into thinking that Privateers fought without flying the colors of their nation.
On a more practical level, Sea Beggars are obviously Dutch, so hidden nationality would make no sense.
In reality, Civ5 is actually more accurate here. It's just Civ3 and Civ4 that confused people into thinking that Privateers fought without flying the colors of their nation.
norwegian1982
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Good points 
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tysmileyy90210
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Netherlands may be situational, but in the right situation, they're incredible.
