Not sure about 1.2 issues with it, haven't played too many games on it, but the privateer doesn't prevent your freighters from being destroyed. What it does is prevent you from losing your trade routes when a freighter IS destroyed. Thats all.
SmokeyJ
Not to be picky, rav, but are you going to add the new and redone ships by coplann and vorlone soon?
The simple fact of the matter is tactical space combat would put the AI at an even greater disadvantage. I have played all three of the Total War series and while they could be enjoyable games, the AI for the tactical combat has always been easy to exploit. Even on the highest difficulty settings, certain tactics and use of terrain always yield a substantial victory for the human player, so much so that I almost never found it acceptable to allow the AI to resolve my battles for me because I c
This is probably a little late, Coplann, but I just wanted to say thank you for the ship models, and especially taking the time to update older ones that you have already done. I really like the additions of thumbnails and XML examples so I don't have to replace any existing ship models in the game. So, enough brown-nosing, just wanted to let you know that your work is appreciated