Apologies if I’ve asked this before….
Links
Multiple different crew may be linked to a single ship at once, but each crew can link with only one other crew or ship at a time unless an ability specifically allows additional links to be created.
How many cargo spaces would a ship gain if it carried all three Knights of Malta at once? (Don Rafael Y de Teresa, Roderick the Pure, Benoit de Marseilles)
All three of them link to the other two. The rule seems to imply that a ship would only get +1 cargo from having all three of them – if two link to each other, then the third one is the odd man out. Or, Don links to Roderick and Roderick links to Benoit, but Benoit can’t link to Don?
The links apply in both directions, so two of them would link to each other giving a single +1, and the third would be left out. Essentially, all three could fit into a ship with only two spaces available.
That trio only seems to exist for flavor reasons; I can’t think of any scenario where using all three together on a single ship would be even remotely beneficial. Even putting two of them together is stretch.
Also, do Marines stack?
The no-stacking rule does apply to them so only one could shoot… while on a ship.
The text of the rule does not refer to islands, probably because Marines are the only crew that breaks the normal rule about using abilities there, so multiples on an island could all shoot.