Quote Originally Posted by AussieGiant View Post
As you both describe (Slaists, anweRU) I also saw this in my Prussian campaign.

It was so funny in my campaign. Pirates dominated the sea lanes by 1765. There were 3 or 4 full stacks of Pirates romaing around with no one to kill. They'd literally killed off most of the worlds shipping except the ships that made it to the trade nodes in the opening few decades. It took my best Admiral two full stack naval engagements to get rid of them. The make up was 2x1st rates, 6x2nd rates and a few 3rd rates. It was an amazing battle.
It's true, if you let them survive (I usually have conquering their islands as my campaign goal #1 or #2 since their raiding tends to kill my trade income), the Pirates are the only maritime challenge in the mid-to-end-game...