Pirate ships....

Originally Posted by Belid Hagen

If all you met were single ship pirates, they would be absolutely no challenge. Sine the AI is pants, they needed to group pirates to give them a chance.

I agree. I'd much rather have challenging pirates than single ships popping up here and there.

Pirate fleets are scarey as hell, but I find that if you focus your fire (especially if you are playing as the Dutch, those Fluyts aint too shabby) things can go better than you'd think. I've noticed that if you can get crossfire focused on a Galleon, they have a habbit of exploding. I love it, have taken down 5 or 6 that way. Not sure if the fire from shps hitting both sides at once raises the chances of a powder room hit or what, because in all but 1 of those explosions, the Galleon's armor was never below 50% on any side.