I really wish that we could fight battles with large numbers of ships

I'm not sure what it will take, but I would like to be able to fight the Battle of the Gabbard, the Battle of Scheveningen (Terheide), and the Battle of Lowestoft with actual numbers of ships (not limited to a total of 82). If we did have the ability to fight such battles, we would have to be prepared to mostly not be controlling individual ships. There is just to much to do for a single person to control 106 ships (as at the Gabbard). At best, you should be able to set policy for what to do, and then user-side AI should help. The main difficulty is that the present, state-of-the-art in PC's is insufficient to do all the work involved and still update the display.