Port Royal and how to use buccanners

[MegaVHS]

Smugglers can contraband goods to port royal,pretty useful
Pirate frigate can steal goods from ships, thats great

Pirate cutter can transport buccanners.... one at a time,and i don't really understand what they do really, ok i can harrass oponents (but how do i manage to get a stack with only 1 slot in the cutter? it would take forever) but is there anything else?
the colopedia doesn't give any more information, so i guess that's all, but its really expensive to get a cutter and buying and shipping buccanners back, and what's the point really?

I think buccanners should be able to raid settlements/tranpost units and get a small treasure/slaves from it, and just scrap the cutter and make it so you can transport buccanners from frigates/privateers/smugglers

 

[VegetableRights]

There is other units that can only be bought at Port Royal (sugar planters I think is one). There just needed to be a ship able to transport units from Port Royal.

I'm sure it could be modded fairly easily if you are not happy with the way it currently works.

 

[NillerDNK]

I really like the concept of buccanners, but the AI seems to have a hard time defending against them which makes them a tad overpowered. Perhaps their captives should turn into indentured servants representing the difficulty of integrating them in their captors' society.

 

[RpX]

I really like the concept of buccanners, but the AI seems to have a hard time defending against them which makes them a tad overpowered. Perhaps their captives should turn into indentured servants representing the difficulty of integrating them in their captors' society.

yeah yesterday i noticed just this...the AI does not attack my bucaneers...its like free population from them :S ,but i like the turn them to indentured servants part and the capture could be like the privateers and its mechanics to get cargo or not, just a chance since some would probably resist and die anyway .
And please if the AI could be tuned to dont have so many surplus population would be nice ,i get sooo many new population when i conquer a town its bonquers

 

[Schmiddie]

Hm, I noticed the opposite. My bucaneers always don't live long. They are attacked immediately - always. Hence I generally just use them in relatively save areas without many enemies.

 

[RpX]

Hm, I noticed the opposite. My bucaneers always don't live long. They are attacked immediately - always. Hence I generally just use them in relatively save areas without many enemies.

By natives yeah they are attacked, not by Europeans.

 

[Schmiddie]

By natives yeah they are attacked, not by Europeans.

no, also by Europeans...

 

[RpX]

I went to further test this today and it seems i jumped the gun :S ,it only happens when the AI is poorly protected when they have the upper hand europeans do attack me if i approach their towns.