Dukes Buccaneers "unaffiliated individuals"

[Candaan001]

Hi everyone,
I am up to the part of the chain where I have to 'convince' some pirates to join the dukes cause.

Whats the best way to do this?

I sort of remember a post somewhere about the best way, but I can't find it.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[Candaan001]

For anyone else that has trouble with this mission.

The enemy groups are generally a single destroyer and around 6 small to medium ships.
Attack them and get them down to around 65% hull and they should turn blue and non hostile... in fact they help "convince" the other ships to help you.

If they don't turn blue at 65% they aren't going to change and can be destroyed or captured in the case of bigger ships.

[[R3DACTED]]

they should turn blue

Howdy, just had this happen to me. When I first got this mission objective, there were "guidance" markers to three hostile groups.

When I got the single destroyer down a good way they did turn blue and ask me to stop shooting. I checked the other two groups and they were also blue?
Followed this guy a bit finally out of patience I killed them dead. Now the "guidance" change to kill some other unaffiliated individuals...

Having seen where the other now blue groups were, I went and battled them anyway. After both were destroyed, the mission completed.

Duke's went from -15 to +15 rep. FINALLY can trade and earn rep with them.

Hope this helps someone, as I was frustrated by the way this played out,

Kev!