@Krieghund:
From page 12:
Aircraft flying to or from a territory with a friendly airbase do not have to use up one movement to go between the territory and the sea zone in which the base is situated, or adjacent to.
From page 24:
During the Non-combat Movement phase, naval units moving from a sea zone containing a friendly naval base to another sea zone containing a friendly naval base may move three spaces instead of two.
These passages seem pretty straightforward to me. Planes are allowed to not use a movement point to enter or leave a friendly air base by sea. This doesn’t change the fact that fighters are limited to four movement points, and bombers are limited to six. I don’t see how that can translate into unlimited movement. Passing through a sea zone with a friendly island air base will cost one movement point whether you pass through the island or not.
As for ships, it clearly extends their movement by exactly one sea zone, to three sea zones. Again, I don’t see how this can be extended any further.
I get the point that ships can only move at most three spaces but it does seem a little misleading.
“During the non-combat movement phase, navel units moving from a sea zone containing a friendly navel base to another sea zone containing a friendly navel base may move three spaces instead of two.” (Here’s where I see confusion.) Moving to a third sea zone containing a friendly navel base may move four spaces instead of three. Moving to a fourth sea zone containing a friendly navel base may move five spaces instead of four…
You see where I’m going with this.
During the Non-combat Movement phase, naval units moving from a sea zone containing a friendly naval base to another sea zone containing a friendly naval base may move three spaces instead of two.
Ships are limited to a maximum of three spaces.
That would have been clearer.
LT