The problem with those kind of scenario's is that they depend on the enemy being utterly stupid and giving you your dream scenario and then just surrendering in

The problem with those kind of scenario's is that they depend on the enemy being utterly stupid and giving you your dream scenario and then just surrendering in defeat something that history shows don't actually happens in the real world. What would actually happen if you sent a US battleship against a age of sail fleet commanded by competent people would be that the battleship would spend all of it's fuel trying to find something to shoot at while civilian shipping kept getting sunk, and then end up destroyed by saboteurs when returning to port for refueling. And that's the dream scenario in the real world you never see that kind of a technology gap persist for long.