Good. Then that's your role. If they board us, we'll need everyone who can hold a sword.

[He shouts a few orders for the guns and the helmsman, the ship shifting as it begins to turn. Some grapeshot to do damage to the people on deck, some chainshot to try and cripple the ship.

And--]

Starting tomorrow, I need you to teach me. [He's quickly learning that not knowing combat here will get him killed.]