Reporting a Location

Module Design
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Many thanks for all the past help from this forum. I have a new request for assistance.

I’d like to report (in the chat window) the position of a piece. Here’s what I’d like to do:

There are two pieces; Aircraft and Fuel. The Aircraft piece is placed on the main map. The Fuel piece is on a zone of that map that has a grid with spaces named 1 through 10. I would like to have an Aircraft property that allows me to report the location of the Fuel piece in it’s zone.

Can this be done?

Many thanks again!

Al

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In the Map Windows properties, place a key command that will be sent to any piece that moves in that map. Let’s say CTRL K.

On the piece you want to display a report, you can have a Report Action that fires on a CTRL K and reports

$BasicName$ is in location $LocationName$

Then every time you move that piece, it will tell you where it’s at.

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I’ll give this a try. Thanks for the quick reply! I really appreciate it.

4

There are two pieces; Aircraft and Fuel. The Aircraft piece is placed on
the main map. The Fuel piece is on a zone of that map that has a grid
with spaces named 1 through 10. I would like to have an Aircraft
property that allows me to report the location of the Fuel piece in it’s
zone.

As a more general design note:

Unless you have a design goal of being completely true to the board
game experience, you could implement this a bit differently in Vassal.

Instead of a separate fuel counter, you could track the fuel directly
with the aircraft piece either through layers or a text label directly
with the aircraft counter. That would allow a more convenient
reference and be a bit simpler to handle. You would also be able to
implement some automated fuel tracking by decreasing the value of
fuel, especially with a layer system and tracking of a fuel value.

(Sounds a bit like Luftwaffe)