You/your group can wait for Krieg to make an official ruling if you like but I guarantee this is backed up by the rules.
This is covered in the Official Rules Clarifications.
Actually, if your attacking transports are confronted by scrambled fighters (if you had no other attacking units), then your transports wouldn’t be automatically sunk. They would have to retreat to SZ 126 with all the land forces STILL ON THEM.
Yes, but the scrambled planes would get one round of fire against the transports before they could retreat.





