Do islands inside sea zones count as a move?
Only if you start on it or want to land there, but yes.
So if I was retreating from 4 sea zones away, got to the sea zone, could I land at the island?
Nope, it takes 1 movement point to go from a sea zone to an island. However, you don’t need a movement point to land on a carrier because it’s considered to be in the sea zone.
And if I am on the island, and going out, does it count as a move for that sea zone around the island…?
Yes.
Also let’s say I’m USA, and I move my fighter to a hostile sea zone, and I declare Soviet Unions aircraft carrier’s going to go there, after battling of course, can this be done?
No. You can only move and take action with your units on your turn. You can land on his carrier but you can’t move it.
Another thing, if I place an anti aircraft rocket on an island (After moving it there via transport of course), will it attack planes going over the sea zone, or is it basically useless?
It’s useless unless the actual island is being attacked. Nothing on land helps in the sea battles (example: the hawaiin fighter doesn’t participate in the defense of the fleet in sz52). Think of the island as a separate zone basically.
Also for transports, is it a combat move, when you load up som eunits, move them two spaces, and do an amphibious assault?
Or do they need to already be in the transport?
They do not need to start in the transport. You can freely pick up units then attack. For instance, you can use the transport in Eastern Canada to pick up the tank, move to sz3, pick up an infantry from Britain, then amphibiously assault Norway. However, you cannot move a unit before or after you load/offload them. So you cannot move the infantry from western canada to eastern canada and put him in that transport all in one turn.
One more thing, after I drop off units, can I move them? Or is their turn done as well.
It’s done, it’s over. Can’t move units before or after loading/offloading. They can be loaded then offloaded but they cannot use their actual movement points if you are doing so.