Thank you very much for your long comment!
Level 2 was meant to teach the ships cannot pass a 1-teil gap between towers, but i had not enough time to write more dialogs. In fact i planned to write dialogs for all levels, but i underestimated the time it takes to write and implement this in multiple languages.
You should be able to win this pretty easy, when redirekting the ships with a "wall" of towers in the south with each 1-tile gap to the next.