Quote Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus
Funny, I never had big problems with pirates (0.81). Perhaps they changed it in gran guitarra's build?

I have 3 fleets at the moment, of which is one consisting of 2 units Trieres, and the other two each made up of 2 units Trihemiolai. If they encounter one of the regularly spawning pirate groups of 1 to 3 units of pirate ships, that with 52 ships and that with 150 ships as well, they fight them, each unit taking 2 to 5 losses, and completely destroy the pirate fleet. Perhaps the Hellenic ships are better?

Well I had to delete my game thanks to a CTD, but while it was still going I had only one fleet of five ships (during the time of peace mentioned)(maintaining three legions is expensive), and did as you do, I destroyed every single small group of pirates, but nobody does that in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea, the Aegean Sea, or the areas around Brittain/Ireland. This wouldn't be such a big problem if it weren't for the fact that those damn fleets, for some really wierd reason, come several thousand miles to my territories. That means that the small groups of two or three pirate ships that were formed in the aforementioned places merged into groups of six or eight, then twelve or so, and finally they reached a nearly full stack of pirate ships.
When five groups like that show up at your doorstep you are going to have a problem, especially if they have a couple of stars from sinking some random weakling navy from an underdeveloped AI.