‘Crossfire’ and ‘Hit the dirt’
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.
Crossfire was followed by Hit the dirt, by Bill Rutherford and John Lewis, a scenario book that also included some new rules.
Other information
- Review by Lloyd Nikolas: http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/wargames/crossfire/cfdescr.html
- Lloyd Nikolas main page - http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/wargames/crossfire/cfireh.html
- Review by Miniatures.de: http://miniatures.de/html/int/wargame-crossfire.html
- WWII variant (using fire teams as the base unit), by Lloyd Nikolas - http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/wargames/crossfire/cfireh.html
- Vietnam variant (using fire teams as the base unit), by Barrie Lovell - http://www.soft.net.uk/entrinet/incoming.htm
- WWII house rules by Tim Marshall - http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/linkscf.html
- House rules, summary of scenarios, and lots of other good stuff by Steven Thomas - http://www.balagan.org.uk/war/crossfire/
- Rules clarifications & other interesting posts from egroup/yahoo mail lists by Tim Marshall - http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/house/ruleclar.html
- Official Crossfire web pages by John Moher - http://crossfire.wargaming.info/
- Luca Fazio's page, with numerous links - http://space.tin.it/clubnet/rocfaz/crossfire.htm
Want to get a copy of Crossfire or Hit the dirt?
See the Official Crossfire web pages by John Moher - http://crossfire.wargaming.info/