Change pirate ships?

[recordable1233]

How can I change Pirate units.I want to give them some mercenery ships.

[Gigantus]

This is from your data\descr_rebel_factions.txt:

rebel_type pirates
category pirates
chance 50
description pirates
unit pirate ship

This is from your EDU:

type pirate ship
dictionary pirate_ship ; Pirate Ship
category ship
class light
voice_type Light
accent English

So my guess is that you can put any ship you want.

[recordable1233]

What about different ships for pirates

[Gigantus]

Let me do it slowly:
open data\descr_rebel_factions.txt
go to the line with: unit pirate ship

Now open data\export_descr_unit.txt
scroll down to any ship you like (I am using the first one: caravel)
copy the name in the type line (caravel)
paste the name (caravel) into data\descr_rebel_factions.txt where it now says: pirate ship
Save data\descr_rebel_factions.txt
Start new game with caravel for pirates

[recordable1233]

Ok,I have that now.I wanted to know how to give them different unit copmosition,if it's possible.

[Fishbone]

I'm not 100% sure whether this works, but it's worth a try.
Just add a unit line to the pirates entry in data\descr_rebel_factions.txt like it is done in the entries for rebels.

rebel_type pirates
category pirates
chance 50
description pirates
unit pirate ship
unit merc galley

[Gigantus]

I'm not 100% sure whether this works, but it's worth a try.
Just add a unit line to the pirates entry in data\descr_rebel_factions.txt like it is done in the entries for rebels.

That might work quite fine as well.