I’ve created a new .VMOD with added small colored stripes through all the German divisional unit counters. I was finding it more than tedious to try to match up battalion breakdown units as well as find the proper HQ during solo play. The worst was the 198th and 196th, both light divisions with identical counter mix, and the scanned counters are a tad fuzzy, so I was having a lot of trouble!
I’ll do the same for the identical Allied regiments; the two French mountain and the 2-3 brit regiments that are all the same ( 3 x 3-4). But I don’t know how to post this “improved” module - happy to have it reviewed by others, first.
I’d like to make a few other changes, but one small step at a time!
A good tool in VASSAL, to help users locate units, is the Game Piece Inventory Window. Using that, you can make a hierarchy of pieces based on properties defined in the pieces. For example, you could have
Piece: German 19th infantry division HQ
MarkTrait: name = Faction, value = German
MarkTrait: name = Division, value = 19
MarkTrait: name = Type, value = headquarters
MarkTrait: name = Echelon, value = division
Piece: German 196th infantry battalion, 19th infantry division
When a user double-clicks the entries, the map will scroll to put that unit into view.
You are a bit out of luck, because of VASSAL’s Switching to the New Module Library. Previously, what you would need to do was to follow this page, but all that will soon change. How that will change is, as yet, unknown. Hopefully we will know more by the end of May 2025.
Given that you are modifying an existing module (Narvick), perhaps you should try to get hold of the author (@lasse_espel) and see if there’s something you can collaborate on.