The confusion seems to be in you’re holding back naval ships for naval bombardment. The advantage about scrambling planes is that it forces the attacker to commit all their naval ships regardless if they want to or not. That’s why it is sometimes wise to scramble in a losing battle if the enemy is relying on bombardment for victory. The easiest situation would be when Japan invades the Philippine islands. If Japan was so aggressive that all they brought was two infantry with two cruisers as example. I would scramble the fighter in that situation because while I will lose the sea battle, if you choose to invade the island after the battle, you’re doing it without naval support which gives my defending infantry a better chance at winning.
Multinational Scrambling
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Scenario using Alpha Plus:
Germany attacks UK destroyer in seazone 110. Stationed on UK is 1 UK fighter, 1 US fighter, and 1 ANZAC fighter. UK decides to scramble. Is the UK only able to scramble its one fighter, or can the US and ANZAC fighters also scramble?
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Any Allied fighters may scramble.
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Thank you, Krieghund!
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Though I assume that in a multiplayer game where separate people are playing the US and ANZAC, it is up to those players to decide if they want to scramble their fighters. In fact, they could scramble their fighters even if the UK chooses not to scramble its own fighter.
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You assume correctly.
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I thought UK was not considered an island because it is surrounded by more than one sea zone, so in this case no scrambling to the sea zone would be allowed multinational or otherwise.
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That’s true if you’re playing with the box rules, but this question was about the Alpha+ rules.
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