Red Front 1.4 . . . . What is Nemo doing and why does it work?

[AGRICOLA]

Could one of the elder SL sages please enlighten me about what Captain Nemo has done in RF 1.4?

In RULES1 (Summer '41) there are 2 slightly different entries for Red Army

Red Army, nil, 0, 1.,0, 4a,5d, 1h,1f, 1,0, 1, Ind, 000000001000000
Red Army, nil, 0, 1.,0, 4a,5d, 1h,1f, 1,0, 1, no, 000000001000000


In EVENTS1 there are 2 different events for when a Red Army unit is killed

@IF
UNITKILLED
unit=Red Army
attacker=Germans
defender=Soviets
@THEN
CREATEUNIT
unit=Wehrmacht SG
owner=Germans
veteran=yes
homecity=None
locations
47,53
42,48
38,50
43,53
34,50
33,61
30,68
endlocations
MOVEUNIT
unit=AnyUnit
owner=Germans
maprect
33,47,39,47,39,51,33,51
moveto
42,48
numbertomove=ALL
@ENDIF


@IF
UNITKILLED
unit=Red Army
attacker=Germans
defender=Soviets
@THEN
CREATEUNIT
unit=Wehrmacht
owner=Germans
veteran=yes
homecity=None
locations
50,136
50,134
56,126
48,124
46,132
46,130
43,127
41,121
33,129
30,132
endlocations
MOVEUNIT
unit=AnyUnit
owner=Germans
maprect
44,80,48,80,48,86,44,86
moveto
51,67
numbertomove=ALL
@ENDIF

In Defense Minister Report / Casualties there are the following 2 entries:

Red Army 209
Red Army 56

In all the above, the order of the entries is the same as in the various game files.

The result of the above is that the Wehrmacht SG spawn in the north and the Wehrmacht units spawn in the south. What I don't understand is how EVENTS differentiates between the two Red Army units.

[MacGalleo]

Events doesn't differentiate between the two red army units.
If you load the scn as German, look how many Wehrmacht and Wehrmacht SG you have. If you kill a Red Army, you will get one more of each unit...
I think Nemo's aim is a way for russian player to get immediatly some red guards at the beginning of the second part. (the second Red army become a red guard)

[MacGalleo]

Nothing seems bound to chance in this scenario. The more I examine the more I admire Nemo. I understand that Curt wants to minimize changes. Why take the risk of losing the very essence of this scenario? It is perhaps possible to improve it, but try to keep a maximum of mechanisms already in place.

[curtsibling]

Indeed! I think we can make his system for Red Front more
elegant, by using what we have learned about CIV2 ToT...

[Kugelregen]

I second MacGalleo. The events don't differentiate between the two Red Army units. Two Germans pop up for every lost Red Army. He's just using the two unit slots for the transition to the second events file when new guard units are formed from the ranks of the existing veterans:

@IF
UNITKILLED
unit=Wehrmacht
attacker=Soviets
defender=Germans
@THEN
TEXT
^After the military disaster of the summer, Josef Stalin restructures the
^Red Army command. Officers are given back military control while the
^Political Commissars' power is scaled back.
^Traditional decorations and uniforms are reintroduced to boost moral.
^New "Guard units" are formed from the ranks of the surviving veterans and
^given special status within the army.
ENDTEXT
JUSTONCE
@ENDIF

[Kugelregen]

It's things like links between these future text messages and previous scenario design decisions that make Red Front brilliant.