A little something I had lost on my Hard Drive and found: A tweak to Wyrmshadows excellent Auxiliary Cruiser unit, this version represents the very same unit, yet unarmed, i.e. as a civilian ship.
The original
An auxiliary Cruiser, here resembling the German raider
"Kormoran", would look like just any other random civilian vessel (Kormoran was the merchant ship "Steiermark" before conversion), a vessel type found around the globe so as not to raise any suspicion. So here it is: A random Freighter to complement Wyrmshadow's original.
Edited Freighter
Edited Files (all files by Wyrmshadow):
-Edited Civilopedia Pic*
-Edited Death (no guns, hatches will blow open as vessel lists)
-Removed Attack**
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*Both old and new Civilopedia Images have been included, so you could also use the "Freighter" image for the raider. For realism, you could also make the Freighter upgrade to the armed variant for a small fee.
While the AI cannot be fooled, to at least fool human players make this unit the default Freighter of the age and useable by all civs and use the same name for the Auxiliary Cruiser (i.e. "Freighter[space]").
**I set my normal (i.e. unarmed) Freighters to zero (0) attack/defence so as to being able to be taken over by armed enemy vessels, as was common practice those days...
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***Re-uploaded after Hacker Attack***