Attacking through a neutral powers sea zone

@Logic:

So if the US flies a plane to France. Germany can not attack France without declaring war on the US?

The US (starting neutral) can’t land a plane in France while being neutral.
So the answer to your question is ‘yes’ in case

US is at war with Italy (thus belonging to the Allies) and US is still neutral to Germany and France of course is still French

HTH :-)

Thanks all for your comments. I understand it now.

I think its stupid as well, brings uneven balance to the game. At least the Europe game.

The reason that defending Surprise Strike casualties are moved behind the casualty strip is that some of them may be subs, which will return fire if there are no attacking destroyers.

Yes, up to 2 in 119 and up to 8 in 109.

The rules for scrambling specifically state that you may only scramble if combat is occurs in the sea zone surrounding the island with the air base.  This combat may be either a straight naval battle if defending naval units exist in the sea zone or just an amphibious attack launched from the sea zone if there are no existing defending naval units.

During the civil war the North and South used different track widths also, because front lines moved back and forth so much, there were special units dedicated to changing trackwiths as ground was gained.

Larry Harris has confirmed that there should be around 20 units defending Russia’s eastern front.