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Landlubber
I don't know if anyone of you has heard about this or posted about this on these forums before, but..
SiCh studio, the maker of Mount&Blade With Fire&Sword has announced some time ago that they are working on a pirate-based game, and it is obviously based somewhere in the age of sail.
It will be using the same engine as in other Mount&Blade games (made by turkish Taleworlds).
Caribbean is set as the map and it will have 5 different factions, Spanish, Dutch, English, French and pirates.
I have no idea what will the gameplay be like, but I hope they do it good.
If you're interested you can check these russian sites translated to english with Google Translate.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gameway.com.ua%2Fpreview%2F4981-na-kariby-novaya-ukrainskaya-igra-ot-sozdateley-ognem-i-mechem-ekslyuzivnaya-premera-ot-gameway.html
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.totalwars.ru%2Fpreview%2F3d-action%2F788-mount-and-blade-karibes-preview.html
They have mentioned that the release date would probably be in Spring 2012