Pirates in the Baltic

[Semi-Lobster]

I've been reading up on the Victual Brothers/Vitalian Brotherhood (Swedish: fetaliebröder, vitaliebröder; German: Vitalienbrüder). A group of pirates who prayed on Baltic and Atlantic Shipping in the 14th century. And even though their fortress in Gotland by the Teutonic Order (I can't get the idea of how hillarious the idea of having crusaders fighting pirates out of my head! ) in 1398. Even though the Victual Brothers where crushed after this their successors, the Likedeelers came into existance. They where the remnents of the discharged seamen of the Victual Brothers continued to plunder the Baltic and Brabant, France and even as far as Spain.

I'd like to see some early pirates in Europe to represent this until the 1500's. Is this a good idea? Anythying relating to game mechanics that would make this a bad idea?

Also just for fun, would it be possible to make the Gotland revolter the Victual Brothers? Who wouldn't want to play as pirate's who's motto was "God's friends and whole world's enemies"?

 

[Hallsten]

"God's friends and whole world's enemies"

:rofl:
That'd be some pretty weird events. But I like!

 

[Semi-Lobster]

Well it's not a great translation from German, it's "Gottes Freunde, aller Welt Feinde!"

And Here's the flag of the Victual Brothers!

http://www.jadu.de/mittelalter/personen/vitalien.html

But Really I'd like to see Likedeelerss in the game, gives some additional action on the Continent And their raids where serious, too bad pirates can't hold pirate infantry or something and pillage a province and flee back to their boats, I guess that's another abstraction of the loss of tax revenue

 

[Hallsten]

Yes, there are far too few pirates in the game. There should be quite a few in the Mediterranean as well IIRC...

 

[saskganesh]

not enough pirates? they are cheap and can be placed at will anytime you want.

 

[Semi-Lobster]

not enough pirates? they are cheap and can be placed at will anytime you want.

Pirates in Europe are needed, there's more then enough pirates in the Caribbean and even some in the Indian Of course they wouldn't last too long, probably until around 1500 or so