Hi John, I think I am confused
. Page 26 says first that "convoy damage cannot exceed the PP value of production centers". For Japan, I interpret this as max 8 PP of damage. And that would be like your post about USA, max 45 PP = the value of on-map prod center areas.
Then in the example below, it says that Japan cannot be reduced below the 8 PP of production centers. This I interpret as Japan will always have 8 PP (unless it get bombed or loses production areas). To me that becomes contradictory statements. First it is mentioned how much damage you can do and in the example how much you can´t do convoy damage.
For example, Japan have an area income of 25 PP. In the rule case Japan will have at least 25-8=17 PP (unless losing areas or bombed) and in example case at least 8 PP.
I am a foreigner so I guess I have misunderstood something here. Hope you can help me. Another thing is that the US east coast convoy zone has a max damage of 50 PP. Why so if the total possible damage to US would be 45? I hope I doesn´t sound critical, only curious.
cheers
Daniel