If, as you hint, this is not completely set in stone, I would personally overwhelmingly demand one more turn!
Hmm... Lets think... nah.

Well, almost definitely "nah", anyway.
give money for the wonder
Have you been reading the rules on the front page lately?
Wow that just seems completely ridiculous.
Indeed.
It just seems ridiculous that my navy whom has the same training and outnumbered the Nihon Pacific fleet by half was unable to defeat them with my plans.
a) The Nihonese fleet had superior quality in general; its ships were perhaps weaker in actual battle, but had far better maneuverability, that being their speciality for decades if not centuries now.
b) What they did was avoid fighting you until they could group together a numerically-SUPERIOR fleet. Note that this tactic didn't always work; they lost one of their fleets that way, and the other ones also got "scratched" early on. They did have better maneuverability, lots of room to hide in (the Pacific Ocean, as mentioned in the update, happens to be quite vast) and lots of secret and open naval bases all over their colonies.
So they just followed their defense plan, plus some improvisation on the behalf of their western admiral; that and land numerical superiority won them the Battle for the New World, at least for now.
Do a BT, puhhhhleeaaasssseeee before you take your break.
How are all those "h"s pronounced in that word? Anyway, no.
