Crossfire (commonly abbreviated as CF) is a tabletop miniatures wargame designed by Arty Conliffe and first published in 1996, later supplemented by 'Hit the Dirt' containing a number of rules clarifications and scenarios. 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. Crossfire is a set of rules written by Arty Conliffe for a game simulating World War Two battles on a company level.
Crossfire (commonly abbreviated as CF) is a tabletop miniatures wargame designed by Arty Conliffe and first published in 1996, later supplemented by 'Hit the Dirt' containing a number of rules clarifications and scenarios. Crossfire was originally designed to allow for company-sized battles and World War II scenarios. It employs an innovative rules system eliminating the need for a ruler.
Game Mechanics[edit]
The game needs neither a ruler nor fixed game turns. Essentially, CF knows only two ranges, point blank (in close assaults) and everything else, the basic assumption being that everything on the map is within rifle range - in other words, everything that can be seen can be hit. As a consequence, CF works only properly on tables where lots of terrain is used in order to allow movement unseen by the opponent.
Free Wargame Rules
In order to overcome traditional turn-based systems CF operates with 'initiatives'. A player can order his troops in any way (movement, fire or rally actions) and in any order during his initiative, and keeps on doing so until one of his actions fails; then the initiative passes on to his opponent.
CF in its basic form is mainly concerned with infantry combat, leaving not much room for the employment for AFVs. Nevertheless using AFVs in scenarios has become very popular with wargamers; therefore a number of different unofficial 'home rules' have been published on fan sites, allowing the inclusion of AFVs in battles.
Figure and Ground Scale[edit]
CF uses an abstract figure scale - a basic infantry stand (usually holding three figures) represents a squad of infantrymen while single heavy infantry weapons are represented by single models; it is also playable on a 1/1 figure scale, though this is unsupported by the official rules and only a minority of gamers seem to prefer this. The ground scale is a matter of discussion among CF wargamers; many see the ground scale at 1/300, though other ground scales up to 1/72 are in use as well.
External links[edit]
- Crossfire official website
Unofficial sites
- CrossFire Tabletop Simulator Mod 3d & Scripted Steam Workshop Mod for the TableTop Simulator
- Balagan Crossfire Best Site for Everything CrossFire on the Internet ( FAQ, Rules Clarifications, & tons of Scenarios )
- Lloydian Aspects among other material notes on CF wargaming at 1/1 scale
- Wargaming.info New Zealand website with FAQ & Game Scenarios & Reports
- Tim's Toys Canadian website with AFV rules
- Matakishi's Tea House UK website with CF for Dad's Army, Band of Brothers, Commandos, Burma, etc.
- IanH's wargaming pages CF wargaming at 1/300 scale
- Vietnam Crossfire CF rules adaption for Vietnam era
- Operation Dumb Geese Modern CF wargaming