Smoke/Illum Ammo Tracking

[treadasaurusrex]

Could we get a way to track Smoke or Illumination Ammunition?

Some ideas:

1. A pull down menu on the Gun and artillery markers that show how much ammo is available.  Take a look at the VASSAL module for the Assault series of game.  Each unit counter has this, you pull down the menu and it shows each type with a large box, in that box you type the number of at start ammo and then that number of little boxes appear. When you use up an increment of ammo you fill in the box by clicking it.

2. You could create a counter for both smoke and illumination ammo that counts down like the mine counters do and one could simply place these under the gun and move it with the gun; when using an ammo you decrease the number.  For OBA you could place one of these for each increment in the OBA Holding box.  I'm using mine counters this way right now, using masked ones for Red and unmasked for blue.

In shared play, I simply COUNT up the OBA and/or MOR of HOW units capable of firing smoke/illum, and determine how many turns of smoke/illu, are allowed by the scenario. Based on this, I type the following reminder(s) in the two note spaces on the game Vassal/Uber game status/turntrack record, like this: 
0 of 4 OBA smoke/illum used, and/or 0 of 6 MOR smoke/illum used.

This method works well in shared online play, though it does require a tiny bit of bookkeeping as play progresses. It seems easy enough for even the most numerically obsessed, crunchies to manage.