(01-10-2015, 01:20 PM)Danny-boy Wrote: I fail to see how pirating a House's Police force/Navy (henceforth 'House forces') is an OORP thing to do.
It's not every day that I read about Somali pirates pirating a US navy aircraft carrier in their speedboats.
Think about it that way.
Because a lone patrol = US navy aircraft carrier and the biggest ship a pirate can get their hands on is a speedboat? Your analogy sucks.
I don't see any Somalis running around with destroyers, do you?
No, nor do I see a gigantic number of aircraft carriers. Shall we use a more toned down analogy eh? Think of a lone patrol as a single police car or a pair of officers on the beat, now these are hardly indestructible forces are they?
When we are done with the silly analogies how about we move back to disco (which is not the real world) and realise that there is no reason a band of pirates could not pirate a lone patrol (not the entirety of Liberty) that has moved away from the main fleet/central planet/whatever and won't be able to receive backup for at least 10 mins or so.
Pirates don't have the tech to do jack. Their tech is as bad as their intent to go and pirate a navy officer with "not so surprisingly" better tech than him. Pirates pirate for a living, and do so, with whatever they can get their hands on. So please, iirc, pirates are just a hit and run group that targets the wealthy ones.
