@wittmann:
Afternoon Suprtramp.
Yes it can. Only Navy blocks naval movement(or a Strait of course!).
An island is a separate territory, yes.
With the exception of Subs and Transports, which cannot block enemy movement by themselves.
Say a lone transport( with land units) attacks an island with a fighter and an airbase on it.
The seazone was empty before the Combat Move.
May the fighter scramble to the seazone to defend against the transport’s amphibious assault?(automatically destroying it).
Even though the seazone was empty, is it still considered a combat in the seazone allowing the fighter to scramble?
(I guess ‘yes’ for both Q1 & Q2)
You guess correctly. Your transports need an escort when amphibiously assaulting an island with an airbase.