I have moved the follow up discussion about Loading Transports in Hostile Seazones in the Classic Editon to the Classic-Category:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35796/loading-transports-in-hostile-seazones
Situation: Italy holds Gibralter with ground forces and a couple fighters – they have no navy. The US has a navy in the adjacent sea zone following a botched amphibious assault.
Question: If UK attempts an amphibious assault through the sea zone with the US navy, and Italy scrambles the fighters to force a sea battle, does the US navy participate in the pre-assault sea battle, or is it just the Italian fighters vs the UK navy?
Just Italy vs UK.