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Poster: Doug Holt
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Game: Berthier Campaign Manager



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Publisher: Tony De Lyall
Game Type: Computer
Designer(s): Tony De Lyall
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Description:


Berthier software manages wargames campaigns for miniatures. Berthier is a generic campaign engine that is suitable for historical, naval or fantasy wargaming in most periods. Berthier allows two campaigners, without an umpire, to run simple strategic campaigns leading to tabletop battles. Alternatively umpires can use Berthier to run two sided campaigns. It is also suitable for solo play. Berthier is a small stand-alone MS Windows program which works "straight out of the box" with no installation necessary.


Articles


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Article Description
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846
Date: 6/23/2025
Poster: Doug Holt
Berthier Campaign Manager v11.5.2 (Free Software)

There is a new update to the free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 11.5.2). In this release, "A new type of order has been added to the issue an order function: the Follow Me! Move Order."

See the README file in the download for the full details.

Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
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845
Date: 6/19/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Berthier Campaign Manager v11.4.0 (Free Software)

There is a new update to the free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 11.4.0). This release adds a Shortcuts Option to the Tools menu. It "...displays and allows selection of any Window’s shortcut found in the Support Folder for the campaign. You can use this option to consolidate any other resources you are using in the campaign to be available within Berthier."

See the README file in the download for the full details.

Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
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844
Date: 4/19/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Le Bébé Berthier

"If you want to see where it all started...". Tony De Lyall has unearthed what was "...the very first iteration of what was to become the Berthier Campaign Manager." If you're curious to see a text based blast from the past, check out Le Bébé Berthier!
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843
Date: 3/29/2024
Poster: Doug Holt
Berthier Campaign Manager v11.3.1 (Free Software)

Tony De Lyall is offering a new update to his free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 11.3.1). Tony points out: "'Hide Map' and 'View Berthier Map' options have been added to the Terrain menu..."!
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842
Date: 10/5/2023
Poster: Doug Holt
Berthier Campaign Manager v11.2.1 (Free Software)

Tony De Lyall is offering a new update to the free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 11.2.1). As Tony explains: "Berthier has been updated with some changes in functionality. See the README.TXT file in the package for details."
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841
Date: 9/13/2023
Poster: Doug Holt
Berthier Campaign Manager v11.1.1 (Free Software).

Tony De Lyall is offering a new update to the free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 11.1.1), in which "Texture files have been renamed to a single consistent naming standard". Tony further explains that "Since this required changes to the Berthier (BTH) file structure a data conversion utility needs to be run to convert your existing files to the new format. See the README.TXT in the download package for more details on how to do the conversion. No new functionality has been added in this release.".
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840
Date: 4/17/2023
Poster: Doug Holt
Berthier Campaign Manager v10.13.2 (Free Software).

There is a new update to the free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 10.13.2). In this release: "A Personality Tool has been added to the Tools menu. The Personality Tool provides basic support for 'role-playing' of personalities in Berthier. The Personality Tool is mainly for documentary support and Umpire guidance. The Personality Tool has been inspired by the chapter on personalities in Charles S. Grant’s book 'Wargames Campaigns'." Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
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839
Date: 10/10/2022
Poster: Doug Holt
Berthier Campaign Manager v10.9.3 (Free Software).

There is a new update to the free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 10.9.3). This release "adds a few new features and fixes some bugs." Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
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838
Date: 7/22/2022
Poster: Doug Holt
Berthier Campaign Manager v10.8.1 (Free Software)

There is a new update to the free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 10.8.1). This release adds a new tool to Berthier. "The Tabletop Generator tool generates random wargame tabletops showing the terrain to be placed on the tabletop. You can use this tool to generate a tabletop when you desire to wargame out a contact. The tool is configurable. Instructions to do this are described in the Help." Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
Grognard Hosted
837
Date: 5/30/2022
Poster: Doug Holt
Berthier Campaign Manager v10.7.2 (Free Software)

There is a new update to the free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 10.7.2). This release adds new functions to Berthier and adds a new feature to the GridMap utility. See the README file in the download for the full details. Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
Grognard Hosted
836
Date: 12/19/2021
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v10.6.1 (Free Software)

There is a new update to the free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 10.6.1). This release modifies some of the functionality in Berthier and adds a new feature to GridMap. See the README file in the download for the full details.

Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
Grognard Hosted
835
Date: 8/30/2021
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v10.3.0 (Free Software)

I've have released an update of the free Berthier Campaign Manager software (Version 10.3.0). This release mainly changes some appearance and operation of Berthier. There is no change in functionality. See the README file in the download for the full details.

Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
Grognard Hosted
834
Date: 8/21/2021
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v10.2.0 (Free Software)

Release 10.2.0 contains small cosmetic updates, including a redesign of the look of the Terrain Effects table. If you are still using Berthier version 9, you will need to download the complete package. If you recently downloaded Berthier v10.1, you can either download the complete package or just the changed Berthier.exe.

See the README file in the download for the full details and important instructions.

Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
Grognard Hosted
833
Date: 8/8/2021
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v10.1.1 (Free Software)

Release 10.1.1 contains new features including 2 additional terrain types. See the README file in the download for the full details.

IMPORTANT: This release of Berthier changest he structure of the BTH data files. Your existing files will not work with the new version of Berthier. You will need to run a data conversion program to convert your BTH data into the new structure.

Instructions:

1) Backup your existing Berthier installation to somewhere safe in case something goes wrong.
2) Put the conversion program - convert9to10.exe - in the folder where your BTH files are. If you keep your BTH files in more than one folder put a copy of convert9to10.exe in each folder.
3) Click on convert9to10.exe to run the data conversion.

Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
Grognard Hosted
832
Date: 3/14/2021
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.17.3 (Free Software)

Release 9.17.3 contains some new features and some housekeeping. See the README file in the download for the full details. Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
Grognard Hosted
831
Date: 6/6/2020
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.16.3 (Free Software)

Release 9.16.3 contains some minor bug fixes. There is no new Berthier functionality. See the README file in the download for the full details. Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
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830
Date: 11/21/2019
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.15.1 (Free Software)

Release 9.15.1 contains mainly operational (rather than functional) updates to Berthier Campaign Manager. See the README file in the download for the full details. Shared by designer/developer Tony De Lyall.
Grognard Hosted
829
Date: 10/6/2019
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.14.1 (Free Software)

Release 9.14.1 involves a significant change to the "look and feel" of Berthier with navigation now by a standard Windows navigation bar. There have also been additional minor changes. See the README file in the download for the full details. Shared by developer Tony De Lyall.
Grognard Hosted
828
Date: 11/12/2018
Poster: Ed Sommers
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.13 (Free Software)

Release 9.13 introduces a number of small incremental improvements to Berthier Campaign Manager. See the README file that is included in the download for full details. Shared by developer Tony De Lyall
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827
Date: 10/14/2017
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.11 (Free Software)

There is no new functionality in Berthier 9.11. However the way menus operate has changed - inoperative menu options display in light grey and cannot be selected.
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826
Date: 10/1/2017
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.10 (Free Software)

It had to happen didn’t it? In early September Tony De Lyall put out a major update to Berthier and then nearly immediately discover a bug in the changes. Arrrh! If you recently downloaded Berthier 9.9 you should download the fixed version Berthier 9.10.
Grognard Hosted
825
Date: 9/17/2017
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.9 (Free Software)

Updated version 9.9 of Tony De Lyall's "Berthier Campaign Manager" software, a Windows program that manages war game campaigns for miniatures. This a big change to the way Berthier looks. Maps now can display textures to designate different types of terrain instead of just plain flat colours. See the attached screenshots for examples of how terrain can look. You can create new textures and delete textures. See the file "Creating Berthier Terrain Textures Files.pdf" in the Berthier package for more details. The update involved quite a bit of coding changes in Berthier so just to be safe I’d advise you BACKUP YOUR CURRENT BERTHIER INSTALLATION before installing the new version... There have been a few other changes as well. See the README file in the download for the full details.
Grognard Hosted
824
Date: 6/6/2017
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.8 (Free Software)

Updated version 9.8 of Tony De Lyall's "Berthier Campaign Manager" software, a Windows program that manages war game campaigns for miniatures. This release has no new features, just a bug fix, but it's good to see that Tony is still supporting his software! See the "ReadMe" file in the download for details of fixes in the new release...
Grognard Hosted
823
Date: 9/13/2016
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.7 (Free Software)

Updated version 9.7 of Tony De Lyall's "Berthier Campaign Manager" software, a Windows program that manages war game campaigns for miniatures. See the "ReadMe" file in the download for details of changes in the new release...
Grognard Hosted
822
Date: 3/28/2016
Poster: Ed Sommers
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.6 (Free Software)

Updated version 9.6 of Tony De Lyall's "Berthier Campaign Manager" software, a Windows program that manages war game campaigns for miniatures. Updated for Windows 10! See the "ReadMe" file in the download for details of changes in the new release...
Grognard Hosted
821
Date: 1/19/2016
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.5.2 (Free Software)

Updated version 9.5.2 of Tony De Lyall's "Berthier Campaign Manager" software, a Windows program that manages war game campaigns for miniatures.
Grognard Hosted
820
Date: 12/14/2015
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager v9.41

Updated version 9.41 of Tony De Lyall's "Berthier Campaign Manager" software, a Windows program that manages war game campaigns for miniatures.
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819
Date: 12/17/2014
Poster: Mark D.
Berthier Campaign Manager Software v9.3 Update

Berthier Campaign Manager v9.3 is the latest version of a Windows program that manages wargames campaigns for miniatures. Berthier allows two campaigners, without an umpire, to run simple strategic campaigns leading to tabletop battles. Alternatively umpires can use Berthier to run two sided campaigns. Berthier is a generic campaign engine that is suitable for historical, naval or fantasy wargaming in most periods but was developed with the Horse and Musket period in mind.
Web Link
818
Date: 1/1/1900
Poster: Mark D.
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