Is the crew supposed to fight in ship battles?

[Mu Shu Fasa]

So my crew has fought with me in 2 boarding ship battles out of the 50 or however many I have done. Are they supposed to or aren't they? I hope they are supposed to fight because I would feel way more attached to them if they did. As it is now I don't really care about them as characters for the most part. Something seems buggy here though, I don't know why they would only participate in those 2 fights and none of the others.

[KaiG]

They fight if they're needed to give you extra combatants because the other ship has ludicrous numbers of enemies that exceeds you + your companions. If our entire crew was involved in every fight we'd probably steamroll everyone.

[adragojlovic]

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[Mu Shu Fasa]

Ah ok, I play solo so I'm outnumbered every fight lol.