Crossfire

Crossfire is a set of wargame rules for company-level WWII wargaming by Arty Conliffe. Crossfire was first published in 1996 and introduced with some novel mechanics. The cover sums these up as:
• No rulers required
• No fixed game turns

Both these claims are true, but somehow seem to be understatements. The mechanics give the game a very different feel to all other WWII games I have played, and I really like them.

Crossfire has its deficiencies, but overall I think it is a cracking set of rules.

Hit the dirt

Crossfire was followed by Hit the dirt, by Bill Rutherford and John Lewis, a scenario book that also included some new rules.

Reviews

Have a look at the reviews given in the following links to get an idea of what Crossfire is all about:

Author: Lloyd Nikolas
Link - http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/wargames/crossfire/cfdescr.html
Main page - http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/wargames/crossfire/cfireh.html
Author: Miniatures.de
Link - http://miniatures.de/html/int/wargame-crossfire.html

Crossfire variants

WWII variant (using fire teams as the base unit)

Author: Lloyd Nikolas - http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/wargames/crossfire/cfireh.html

Vietnam variant (using fire teams as the base unit)

Author: Barrie Lovell - http://www.soft.net.uk/entrinet/incoming.htm

WWII house rules

Author: Tim Marshall - http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/linkscf.html

House rules, summary of scenarios, and lots of other good stuff

Author: Steven Thomas - http://www.balagan.org.uk/war/crossfire/

Rules clarifications

Rules clarifications & other interesting posts from egroup/yahoo mail lists

Author: Tim Marshall - http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/house/ruleclar.html

Other sites

Official Crossfire web pages.

Author: John Moher - http://crossfire.wargaming.info/

Luca Fazio's page, with numerous links

Author: Luca Fazio - http://space.tin.it/clubnet/rocfaz/crossfire.htm

Suppliers

See the Official Crossfire web pages