What the game simulates well is who the CV is the absolute weapon as opposed to guns.
What it doesn't is how a battle is resolved.
Most of the time when I have overwhelming superiority in numbers is that the enemy will just retreat. As if I understand that it did and some ships like the Raiders in the Atlantic did manage to escape from battles quite often, it is quite different in the Med.
Then even so if one side has CV's then it's an all together different story. So far I don't think ships were faster than a plane during WW2.
So here I have 2 CV's, multiple ships against 1 BB of the Italian Navy and he just escape unscratched.
Fine if it was one time on numerous encounters but it's very often and when it doesn't I hardly do a hit or two.
Well in this case that BB should be blown out of the water.
