So... I fought a sea battle and ended up capturing a nice useful armed trading fluyt off the pirates. Not sure how I did it, I cr if I boarded the boat or it just surrendered.

Since then, I've had several victorious sea battles against the pirate scum, with various privateering vessels left either bobbing surrendered in the waves or actually boarded, and yet at the end of the battle I get no prize money, no option to add ships or crew to my fleet or anything.

Is it random? Am I doing something wrong? Is it to do with remaining move points, whether you attacked them or they attacked you or what? Any ideas?

Ta