Oh, now it makes sense why my batteries and undermanned ships fared poorly !
From what you said and showed, it looks like the crew allocation panel get the sides inverted ... and like you I allocated crew on this crew interface !!
Andrew : the bug can be easily fixed by just interverting he labels on the crew tab, but in fact it's painful to have to think every time about "where is port/starboard" ? It's easy in the gun panel because you see graphically where the sides are : if the crew and damage panels were also layed out like this, something like this (for crew panel) :
---------- Idle : xxx
Port batt : xxxx Starboard batt : xxx
---------- Sailing : xxx
---------- Boarding : xxx
, it would be better
