Reversing NM losses

[mdsmall]

Bill - I am interested in exploring how to modify the game so that when locations that trigger NM losses are recaptured, the original owning player regains the NM points that were lost. I see that there is specific provision for this under Decision Events for the recapture of Verdun, Nancy, Belfort and Lille (only). Each of these DEs has the notation LINK=XXX (1) where XXX seems to be the number of a Decision Event, presumably the event which triggered the loss in the first place.

If I wanted to write more Decision Events modelled on these ones, how would I find the Decision Event number to assign to them?

[BillRunacre]

Hi Michael

The Decision number needs to be unique, so what I normally do is pick a number I think will be available, and then search the Decision file for it. If it's not found as a Decision number already in use, then you can use it.

For instance, search for #DECISION= 66 and you'll see that 660 exists, but none higher so you can use 661, 662, etc.

[mdsmall]

Hi Bill - thanks for this advice. I tried writing a new DE and used a version of the "find an unused number and try it" approach. Good to know that there is no more scientific way of doing this!