How to Play: Placing Crew
Index -> Playing the Game -> Game Setup -> Placing Crew
If you have chosen crew as part of your fleet, you'll be asked one by one which ship to put them on. You may also put crew on your home island. Each crew takes up one cargo space on a ship. No matter what a ship's cargo capacity, it can't carry crew with a combined point cost higher than the ship's point cost.
Crew can use their abilities only on ships, never on islands. If a crew and ship are not of the same nationality, that crew can't use its ability while on that ship. A crew with a point cost of 0 may be assigned only to a ship that shares its nationality. Your crew will appear "face down" to your opponent (showing only its nationality) before you use its ability, but then it will be turned "face up" and become known to your opponent.
Some crew are "linked" to other crew and ships (as noted by the link symbol in the Fleet Builder). When two linked crew are assigned to the same ship, that ship gets +1 cargo space. In the same way, if one crew is assigned to a ship to which it is linked, that ship gets +1 cargo space. Multiple links on the same ship stack; that is, a ship gains +1 cargo spaces each time two linked crew are assigned to her, or a crew linked to her is assigned to her.
Once all crew have been placed (if any), proceed to placing treasure.
