Advice needed

[low_bidder]

I tried Great Naval Battles decades ago. It was a good concept, but they (the programmers) never got it to work right. It would crash at random intervals. I picked up a DL from Dogbones ( I think) a few years ago and ran it in XP on DOS box, which seemed to work better. There was a game called Fighting Steel, which was supposed to be the SP at sea game. I didn't like it since it had no Merchant ships. The whole reason warships exist is to either threaten or protect merchant ships. So I figured if they left them out, they didn't know enough about seapower to make a game about it. Then there is Harpoon. Harpoon is built around late 20th century navies, but you could use the editor to make WW2 type battles. No Japanese though. The USA is still a little twitchy about the Jap navy. They make them call their aircraft carriers Destroyers.
That is at least 1 step beyond rubbing it in. The Army doesn't make the Germans call their Panzers 'field kitchens'.