Campaigner

How Campaigner Works

Once you have a campaign, players can create new Battlegroups to deploy. A Battlegroup is a tabletop army and represents what you'll fight battles with. You can have many Battlegroups in a campaign. Once you select the forces that are in a Battlegroup, you deploy it to the map and set its waypoints.

Campaigner calculates the movement of each Battlegroup and determines detection and speed, depending on the composition of the Battlegroup and the terrain. When two opposing factions' Battlegroups make contact with each other, a battle takes place. The battle is then fought on the table, like you would any normal game. Units that are killed are marked as "dead" in Campaigner after the battle. The point value, detection and zone of control of the Battlegroup is recalculated and the campaign continues.

Turns are continued in this manner until a specific victory condition point value is met. Victory conditions can be the destruction of enemy installations, occupying specific areas of accruing a certain amount of resources.

When combats occur, assets such as rules (from neighboring installations or Battlegroups) can be assigned to assist in the battle. Rules help extend the campaign beyond the tabletop by giving the players additional resources, troops or special actions. Players can also use nearby chits to reinforce those chits that find themselves in combat.

Once those assets are assigned, the game is played on the tabletop and the outcome of each battle is entered into Campaigner. Units that are destroyed in the tabletop game can be marked as "dead" in Campaigner, and their point value will no longer be added to the owning Battlegroup.

Features

Customizable units, installations, deployment zone, resources, rules and units allows use for any genre.
Excellent map editor allows the creation of any scale map (see FlexMap).
Point-based victory conditions allow for a host of winning strategies in any campaign.
Simultaneous movement system that takes unit composition and terrain into account, as well as map scale and turn length. All the player has to do is set Battlegroup waypoints.
Battlegroups can be comprised of groups of units that match your army lists and can be reorganized during the campaign to allow tactical as well as strategic flexibility.
Campaign Builder allows you to create campaigns of any genre and tailor the system to your group's play style.
Save templates for unit types, installations, resources and rules for different game systems and share them with other members of the community.

Screenshots

Campaigner Screenshot

Combat Resolution Screen

Play Videos

The play videos are demonstrations of some of Campaigner's features and you will need flash player to view them. They are also fairly large (4-10 MB) and may require some time to download.

Creating and deploying a Battlegroup

Turn replay

Setting waypoints

Splitting a Battlegroup

Campaigner Demo

You can download a copy of Campaigner right here, and check it out for yourself. This build, while feature complete might have some bugs, so keep that in mind. Campaigner comes with Campaign Builder, which allows you to build your own campaigns. Also included in the package is FlexMap Builder which is free to use.

You'll need the full version of Campaigner to play campaigns that you and other players have created. Campaign Builder is included in the demo so that you can see the full power of the Campaigner system. The full version should be available soon.