To keep the discussion alive, i´ve been making some strategy videos.
Here´s one for the UK:
That fighter on Gibraltar is best use to support the cruiser from SZ91 taking down SZ96. You can fly fighters from London or Scotland to support Taranto so long as they didn’t all die after being scrambled G1.
That is why I just assumed that you didn’t do that.
I actually find it more devastating when the SZ96 battle fails.