Target a ship at Range 1-3. If the Captain on the target ship has a Skill number of 6 or less, discard that ship's Captain and Gul Madred. If the Captain on the target ship has a Skill number of 7 or higher, that Captain rolls 2 defense dice. If at least 1 BS result is rolled, do not discard that ship's Captain or Gul Madred.
My question is does Gul Madred look at the printed Skill on the target Captain or it's "effective" Skill - so for example, if the Captain is disabled in which case it is considered to have a Skill of 1?