Starting out with TMO is like learning to fly with Corsair. You might succeed, but the odds are you'll just be a smoking hole in the ground, if you even live long enough to get off the ground.
I counsel getting rid of the mods and learning to play the game stock first. That way you aren't playing with Ducimus' evil airplanes of escorts with y-throwers dropping a wide pattern of six depth charges at a time on you. The only thing you'll learn that way is how to be fish food.
Start out with stock and learn the basics of the game so you don't have to think about the mechanics. You have to devote full time to tactics. Don't look at the water. It's just a bunch of wet stuff you can't avoid anyway.
Then when you know the game, load up the mods with abandon! You'll have a lot more fun that way. Otherwise you're just learning to be......fish food.