Has anyone ever played or is it possible to play as the pirates or rebels? If so would they be able to create an alliance together?
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You can play as pirates or rebels, but since the game isn't meant to be played by these tags, the result is very strange. Usually after s hort period of time, I crash out of the game. Its cool to play for a month or so nonetheless.
Yep, you can't do it through the IGC playable country editor, though. You have to edit the main scenario file and give one of the major nations the rebel or pirates tag.
Thats what I did when I wondered if I could play as a rebel. I switched tags between England and Rebels. All of England were rebels and the nation's flag was the rebel flag. There was even a rebel fleet around England. Buts thats not what I wanted or intended in my post. I want to play as "the" rebels. So when there is a revolt, its my team out there revolting. Here...there and everywhere.
When I switched tags(England and Rebel)England was still England only with a rebel look and the rebels had the English look. They were still who they were, and yes the game did crash.
When I switched tags(England and Rebel)England was still England only with a rebel look and the rebels had the English look. They were still who they were, and yes the game did crash.
Actually there is an AAR where a player actually played as the Pirates, in the manner you described in your post above. His game crashed, but I think I did not crash until after some 100 years. Search the AARs for yourself! The AAR was named ’Pirates’-something I think. (it might have been in the EU2 AARS BTW, you should check’em out too)
Actually, when I said give your nation the pirates or rebel flag, I meant, make the Rebels of Pirates a major nation like you would do with Papal States or any other minor. I never even considered changing a major's tag to Reb or Pir, thats an interesting idea. The pirates were cool, I played them for a few years during the 1600's when they have a ton of kick-ass naval leaders.