randomly placing tokens on a board

Module Design
1

Hello,

I’m new to the vassal engine, so any help would be much appreciated.

I’m looking for a script whereby the engine places random type of resources (wood, stone, gold, etc.) from a common pool on random spaces of a predefined part of the board. The number of resources of each type is limited within the pool. Say, there are 7 wood, 5 stone and 3 gold altogether in there. Is there any way to achieve this result with VASSAL?

Thank you for your time.

2

Yes, see
https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/a-deck-question/1476/1

This is what you want to do in principle. Although this is talking about
dealing a deck of cards it is exactly the same idea of how to do it

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Hello,

I’m new to the vassal engine, so any help would be much appreciated.

I’m looking for a script whereby the engine places random type of
resources (wood, stone, gold, etc.) from a common pool on random spaces
of a predefined part of the board. The number of resources of each type
is limited within the pool. Say, there are 7 wood, 5 stone and 3 gold
altogether in there. Is there any way to achieve this result with
VASSAL?

Thank you for your time.

Read this topic online here:
https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/randomly-placing-tokens-on-a-board/4216/1

3

Thanks for the quick reply. I followed the procedure in your post in that thread, but got stuck at selecting a map in the Send To Location trait, as I cannot select any (despite having maps). Also, I don’t know how to establish region points on a map. Maybe the two have got to do something with each other?

4

When selecting the map, you must select the [Map Window]

Each [Map Window] will have a [Map Boards] and a [Board]. Right-click the [Board] and select Add Irregular Grid. This will allow you to place Region Points on the map.

For example: If you have a primary map called BattleField [Map Window] and you have region points on the map called BF1, BF2, etc., your Send to Location trait would be set to

Destination - Region on Selected Map
Map - BattleField
Region Name - BF1

If you are randomly distributing pieces, then the BF region points would probably be a variable. For example, you could use a variable called DropSpot and have it increase each time a unit is placed. If that’s the case, then the region name above would look like this.

Region Name - BF$DropSpot$

The first piece placed would be placed in BF1. Then DropSpot would be increased by one and the next piece would be dropped in BF2, etc.

5

Thanks for trying to help me out. I’m still stuck at defining region points. When I add an irregular grid, the window tells me to “drag and drop selected regions to move”, but all I can do is select a territory which then disappears after releasing the mouse button and nothing happens.

6

Think you need to right click on the map

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Thanks for trying to help me out. I’m still stuck at defining region
points. When I add an irregular grid, the window tells me to “drag and
drop selected regions to move”, but all I can do is select a territory
which then disappears after releasing the mouse button and nothing
happens.

Read this topic online here:
https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/randomly-placing-tokens-on-a-board/4216/5

7

Okay, I defined the regions. Now I’m at the part where I should create an “At Stack”, but dunno where to do that.