Rebel ships

[Third spearman from the left]

Last night while playing the XL mod in high as the Scots something strange happed. I've built up a few ships and the AI as also built ships on a large scale (I've never seen so many ships in the water!). Anyhow out of the blue a rebel ship appears just off the coast of Scotland, it stayed for two turns and then sailed off into the sunset. It was a rebel ship as it's shield icon was correct, so has anybody else seen this happen?

[Sir Toma of Spain]

Well i've noticed the hundreds of ships belonging to other factions but i've never seen a rebel ship.

[matteus the inbred]

nor me...although I've occasionally wondered, if a faction is destroyed while it has a fleet, whether these turn rebel or not. Independent traders perhaps?

I think MTW2 should incorporate 'pirates' anyway.

[Sir Toma of Spain]

nor me...although I've occasionally wondered, if a faction is destroyed while it has a fleet, whether these turn rebel or not. Independent traders perhaps?

In the origional M:TW (im not sure for XL) whenever a faction was destroyed their entire navy also dissapeared.

[matteus the inbred]

yeah, it would seem so...must be an XL thing then.

[Ulair]

I've seen Rebel ships only once and that was in unmodded VI so I don't think it's an XL thing.

Mind you, XL doesn't half generate ships! And having more factions starting with ships makes it much more of a challange. I love XL.

Cheers,
Ulair