There are a couple of ways to go about ship combat in Skull and Bones. The easiest and most common method of combat you'll likely use is simply depleting a ship of all its health and sinking it, allowing you to collect its loot from the wreckage. However, there's a secondary way to collect loot from an enemy ship: board it.

Boarding an enemy ship can actually reward you with more loot than you would normally get by sinking it. There is sometimes hidden loot stowed away on ships that can only be earned by boarding it. Of course, boarding can take more time and effort than firing a few cannons into the side of an enemy's vessel, so there are pros and cons to each combat method.

Before you can make that decision, though, you need to know how to board an enemy ship effectively in Skull and Bones.