Actually Cragi, he stated that they flew over Western to attack, and back over Western to retreat. For that to be the case (in the #1 example at the start of the thread) the FIGs would HAVE to be attacking, not defending.
And under LHTR, Attacking aircraft retreat as I specified.
If Russia puts 4 INF on Caucuses in R1, and amphib is out.
What I wrote abvoe was for a single INF left in Caucuses.
Also, that does NOT preclude an Egypt attack, expecially with ANY bid to Africa. Skip the DD in SZ15 and jsut use Balkans FIG, 2 INF and 1 ARM from Libya. Still a 70% clear and 60% win. And if the Ukraine FIG is still alive for the battle it is an 89% win.