PIRATES off the starboard bow!

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)[*]The area itself (the Caribbean would see heightened piracy, the English channel would naturally see much less)
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Not so true if you include privateers, towards the end of our period when the french navy had been either destroyed or confined to port, the only form of Naval warfare the french could muster was privateers that operated out of the channel ports but esp Dunkirk as due to offshore soals was particulary hard to blockade

I would absolutly love to see privateers under AI control sailing about attacking enemy merchants but also annoying allied shipping as they had a habit of.