Naval sims?

[Androo]

Well I have spent a little time with Enigma: Rising Tide and quite like it. It is a first person sim set in an alternate history 1930's. Understandably, a lot of people shy away from it because of its rather farfetched context [Germany won the Great War and occupied France and the UK; the remnants of the Royal Navy and the British Empire have allied with the Japanese; so the three factions are 1) Imperial Germany, 2) Japan/Royal Navy in Exile and 3) the USA]. One can play a campaign, linear I believe, for any of the factions in either their surface or submarine fleets. This alternate history was not for me, but no problem: thanks to the efforts of a member of the community ("timetraveller") textures in the game are easily moddable (if I can do it, anybody can do it). The first day I had it, I exchanged the Sino-British flag (ugh!) for a proper RN White Ensign of my making. I'm not an expert, but I believe the ship models are quite accurate. Several former Naval types are members of the community and though they debate the minutiae of ship performance in the game, overall they seem tolerant of its modelling. Stalwart fellow that he is, Timetraveller has also produced a brilliant mission builder. Now, one can build missions with random events, so the mission can have an incredible number of permutations and possible results. And then these missions can be scripted into campaigns, complete with briefings which sport newspaper front pages with headlines written and photos provided by you. The story-telling possibilities are pretty impressive.The gold edition has extra ships and is also ready for the addition of the mission builder without patching.
1) screenshots at Gamespy
2)screen shots of Gold Edition at Gamespy

3)E:RT community forum.

If anybody wants more info, let me know.