Do not feel afraid of voicing your opinions when it comes to decide the battle.

I'm no naval buff in particular, but that is not major problem since the time was one of interesting combinations. The battleships still sailed in formal slow lines with cruisers (light ones, the armoured version was supposed to sail in the line but was too often blown to bits to be effective) forming the screen and destroyers acting as recon and escorts of both cruisers and BBs.

So we have the simplest of all setups (line of battle) with the freedom of destroyers and light cruisers.

Must point out that battlecruisers are meant to sail in the line, and can be described as light battleships in armour only. Light cruisers are quite weakly armed, normally only a handful of 5 inch guns, just barely enough to beat a destroyer, which rely on torpedoes and perhaps 2-3 4-5 inch guns.
German destroyers are called topedoboats (but are big enough to be destroyers) and are generally weaker and smaller, but faster than their British counterparts, though their weapons are comparable.
DD fights are vicious and bloody and often not over until one side is wiped out (heavily damaged ships would be ignored as long as more active targets sailed about).

A lot of contact will be done with lights, so info can be intercepted (as it happened at Jutland for the British). But the big ships have wireless installments and can even contact the homeland, but the DDs don't have that, and only some light cruisers have it.