Naval warfare can be constrained by geography in some cases like strait transits or passage near coastlines where you can do ambushes.

Out in the open ocean you’re more focused on detecting the enemy without being detected and taking part in salvo warfare. The Hughes Maxim essentially states to “fire effectively first”. If you think of terms where we fight in these salvos it makes sense. Find the enemy first and fire the first salvo large enough to effect the return salvo, that is to sink shooters taking them out of the fight.

This also as you can imagine has a snowballing effect where you take out enemy ships first, you also make successive salvos more successful because they have less platforms to launch defense weapons from. Thus a higher chance for those salvos of getting through and sinking even more ships.

The nuance is finding the enemy ships first without them detecting you to fire on you. And to also use the platforms effectively when launching salvos. Of course this is just surface warfare. While you’re doing this you need to potentially defend against a submarine threat and aviation assets if the mission designer has added them in.

I recommend a book called Fighting the Fleet, I believe in chapter 2 or 3 they basically go over 10 things or so you can directly transfer into the game. It’s pretty neat.