Can fighters scramble to defend land territories?

Yes; you are right.

Regarding the Chinese territories controlled by Japan at the start of the game, I place Japan control markers on those territories when I set the board up. It’s a big help for me when one of those is liberated and the Japan marker removed as, later on, I quickly know who controls it at a glance. If Japan re-captures it, I place the marker back.

The USA cannot move any units into any land territory that’s not their own until they are at war.
So, no, they cannot send fighters to the UK until they are at war with Germany.

No neither is gamey in my book, it’s part of the game that can lead to a victory (should be a 1 or 2 trick pony). Once your group see’s these moves, it’s up to your opponent to do something about it. Our group see’s a couple Italians at the Russian front often, which can help the Germans to push deeper into Russia. So if this is happening the Russians might need to picket with 2-3 inf in key territories, so you have a chance to kill off the Italian ground unit(s). A few Italians can allow you to sack some Russians, or simply bring your German air to the front so the Russians can’t strafe your German stack w/o air cover. Can also get you to Stalingrad or Caucasus faster, but often times it risks your German mech/tanks if the Russians see it and set up a counter. Sometimes Russia has to deal with a 3 ring circus if both Italy and Japan are knocking on the door w/Germany, it is up to the other Allies to even up the score. Even if Moscow falls, it’s all about what they can take with them, and if the western allies are in position to put the hurt on. Besides, if those Italian bombers are picking off Russians, they aren’t helping much in the Med (although the range allows them to threaten both theaters through the Black Sea).

Thanks Krieghund. My friends and I don’t play often enough so we all have to brain storm to remember the rules.

First of all, i don’t think Germany should upgrade the UK IC (and in Alpha rules it even isn’t allowed).

Aas Germany you should at least make he impression to fight for London (to make USA send alot of troops), and the moment before they’re going to get slaughtered, germans can chose to pull back (if the situation is hopeless), or (if they think they can hurt the attackers) stay and fight for it.

Eevry turn UK doesn’t have London it’s about 20 Allied IPC less per round. That’s not nothing, so every turn you can stretch this is good. Also Italy can benefit a lot from the british downfall.

If you plan a counter attack against liberating americans, leave your troops in London and load up for a counter-counter-strike.

USA should know that if it liberates UK, it has to make sure they keep it for 2 turns at least (since 1st turn UK cannot buy but gets money, and that could be looted by Germany again).

If they do, german’s time in London is over, if they make the mistake of rushing to take back UK (and most players will probabaly fall for it once - i did…), germany can play with them.

I think it’s best for germany to spend abit on it, as it is good to delay Allied actions (winning valuable turns and keeping the Allies weakened - can also be good for Japan by the way), but other targets (Russia!) ought to be their top priority.

In the End, London IS a VC (a means to win the game) and though you can’t count too much on keeping it the whole game, you don’t just give it back! You use it and meanwhile you go for the other VC’s.

Each airbase can only scramble 3 fighters.  If you have more than one sea zone serviced by that airbase, you have to choose from the 3 planes which ones go to which sea zone.  Yes, you can split them up if you want to (2 to SZ 109, 1 to SZ 110, etc.).

Pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I want to clarify.
The rules say that an “allied” destroyer in the same sea zone that you attack will not cancel the abilities of enemy subs since any force attacks alone, Allied forces can only defend together.  I assume this applies to scrambling as well.  Here’s my situation:
The US has a large fleet occupying SZ 6.  Japan has fighters on it’s airbase.  ANZAC wants to amphibiously assault Korea.  If the Japanese fighters scramble, will they only be fighting the ANZAC ships?
Even though the US and ANZAC are Allies, since ANZAC is on the attack, the US ships are basically idle during this action, is that correct?