Quote Originally Posted by Sir Beane View Post
Spain, Morocco and the Ottoman Empire seem determined to out-pirate the Barbary states .
Strangely enough the Barbary states are not much of a threat from my experience. All they have are light galleys, which while dangerous against brigs and sloops, if you bring a few Galleons to the fight you'll absolutely murder them.

They seem to be a faction who is only dangerous when you don't have the resources to fight them, otherwise they are easily crushed. Take a full stack of infantry and land in North Africa, burn 2/3 of their cities to the ground and withdraw.