Trade Routes

[Calcifer]

Treasure fleets work differently than other civilian units, if you deplete their health bar they don’t die and they are converted to your civilization.

Edit: I never tried specifically with Corsair, the conversion works with normal cogs/carracks/galeons

 

[queenpea]

Treasure fleets work differently than other civilian units, if you deplete their health bar they don’t die and they are converted to your civilization.

Edit: I never tried specifically with Corsair, the conversion works with normal cogs/carracks/galeons

Yep, was just going to chime in to say the same.

The treasure fleet unit is effectively "captured" by the attacker. It converts to the opposing civilization with a low health bar.

 

[Pfeffersack]

Yep, was just going to chime in to say the same.

The treasure fleet unit is effectively "captured" by the attacker. It converts to the opposing civilization with a low health bar.

Ok, thanks for clarifying. So defeated treasure fleets are probably an exception of the exception for the Corsair and get captured like a military ship.

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

Thanx to all the posters who have already tested out what I was planning to.

The 'captured with low health' seems to be identical to the Civ VI Mongolian mechanic of capturing enemy cavalry units: by the time you defeated them to capture them, they had very low health left, and frequently did not survive another turn if any enemy units were left in the area.

Capturing enemy Treasure Fleets was already hinted at in one of the early pre-release Blogs, I believe. But of course, nobody could be sure if the mechanic actually worked the way it was supposed to, as wonky as the entire released game turned out to be.

Will note that with about 250 hours in the game now, I have Never seen either any Corsairs used by the AI, nor any Treasure Fleets even attacked by the AI, let alone captured - another Human Only mechanic, it seems.

That will not stop me, in my next Exploration Age game, from hoisting the Black Flag and setting forth in a Carrack named the Jolly Roget (the only pirate ship in history manned entirely by English majors) or the Black Pearl Jam (the only Grunge pirates) and committing inflicticide on enemy Treasure Fleets. Assuming, of course, that the AI Civs bother to form any . . .

 

[RaidandTrade]

I've used them. They capture the enemy unit once defeated, but it has low health. My question is regarding treasure fleets and if they are sacked like a trade unit or if they are captured.

Captured. Your don’t have to use a corsair either. If you’re at war and a treasure fleet comes your way, attack it and once it’s damaged enough, it’s yours to unload.

 

[uppi]

Will note that with about 250 hours in the game now, I have Never seen either any Corsairs used by the AI, nor any Treasure Fleets even attacked by the AI, let alone captured - another Human Only mechanic, it seems.

I had this one game in which I got into a massive naval war with Amina and got a bit careless with my treasure fleets (a big detour would have been necessary to avoid the naval battlefield). She did manage to capture multiple treasure fleets of mine and tried to cash them in. I managed to re-capture most of them before that, though. So it can happen, but very rarely.