Quote Originally Posted by ninjahboy
privateers would be more suitable i think
Yep. The golden age of piracy was the 16th & 17th centuries, Drake, Morgan, the French buccaneers, etc... By the 18th century the only left were small time psychopaths like Blackbeard. Whilst they made a lot of noise in print theynever really emulated the feats of their Carribbean forebears. I'd suggest a few pirate ships, not fleets, in out of the way regions.