I had a Navigator-Pirate-Helmsman.

The person I was attacking sent a pirate assassin at me. I changed course to bring their pirate in range of an ally's outpost with a pirate at it. He was unable to target the pirate chasing me.

He screen shared it with me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI5XsqSzB7U

Thanks
-Psye

My guess is that it would only be able to intercept the sub on it's current course (if it was fast enough), not based on the predicted course change.

[img[/img]I have a similar problem. I am trying to intercept an incoming sub with a pirate, but the time to attack makes it impossible as the pirate speed boost factor won't engage without targeting a sub, but the sub I'm targeting (speed boosted by opponent's admiral) reaches destination before I can lock the target.

My Pirate should outpase his speed enhanced sub, but I can't get it to lock on due to how the game handles speed of subs when trying to intersect.

dybdalli-lama wrote:[img[/img]I have a similar problem. I am trying to intercept an incoming sub with a pirate, but the time to attack makes it impossible as the pirate speed boost factor won't engage without targeting a sub, but the sub I'm targeting (speed boosted by opponent's admiral) reaches destination before I can lock the target.

My Pirate should outpase his speed enhanced sub, but I can't get it to lock on due to how the game handles speed of subs when trying to intersect.

When you start to drag the pirate or from an outpost with a pirate the game assumes you are targeting a sub and applies the speed boost. If you can't reach the target then your pirate is not able to get it, even with his speed boost.

You can visualize this by dragging from a pirate near an outpost. When you are snapping to the outpost you should see how the estimated time instantly gets doubled.