Tracking Smoke in VASSAL

[Blackcloud6]

It is a minor difficulty in VASSAL to track smoke usage.  There is no smoke counter nor is there a way to label unit ID.   If there was a smoke counter, one could simply stack them under the unit and expend one each time the unit fires smoke.  If we could give the units an ID number/letter, then one could track on a spreadsheet.   

The current smoke overlay is great for marking where smoke has landed, but not for tracking usage.

Another method, if possible, is to have a right click call out with a "smoke" number one could increase or decrease.

[plloyd1010]

It is a minor difficulty in VASSAL to track smoke usage.  There is no smoke counter nor is there a way to label unit ID.   If there was a smoke counter, one could simply stack them under the unit and expend one each time the unit fires smoke.  If we could give the units an ID number/letter, then one could track on a spreadsheet.   

Tracking smoke in Vassal isn't any harder than with a dead-tree game. Still the point of ID's is noted. I was going to give OBA markers ID's with the next module update. On-board units are more complicated, because the counter is busier and a little irregular.
 

Another method, if possible, is to have a right click call out with a "smoke" number one could increase or decrease.

Matt Brown did something like that with his WaS Vassal games. I don't know how I would work it into PG Uber.

[Blackcloud6]

Matt Brown did something like that with his WaS Vassal games. I don't know how I would work it into PG Uber.

Unit attributes has a "spreadsheet" attribute, maybe that is what he uses?