Episode 2 of my Crossfire Tutorial GameEpisode 1 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0wclBcl1s4. Musing on Crossfire as a board game Crossfire is not a board game. But it could be. This is a bit of a thought experiment on what Crossfire might look like as a board game. It all came about one Saturday morning when I was having a WhatsApp conversation with my wargaming crew on “Crossfire as a board game”.
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- The rules were written by Arty Conliffe, with help from Rob Wolsky, and are published by Quantum Printing of 460 West 34th Street, New York NY 10001. Like all good sets of rules, Crossfire sets out to capture the particular feel of the type of warfare it simulates.
- Crossfire was one of the first games we played at the club 15 years ago. But some of Mike's terrain was so new that the glue hadn't dried! The British had to occupy the crossroads at centre table while the Germans had to maintain LOS on it at the end of the game.
Crossfire is a set of innovative Wargaming Rules that delivers high-intensity action for miniatures gamers without the inconvenience of rulers or fixed turns. They are one of the first rule sets to use a genuine “variable length bound” that is not artificially contrived. This means there is no set amount of activity that can occur in a players “turn”, nor is there any limit on how often a player can “have a turn”. The result reproduces real life experiences and greatly adds to the ‘fog of war’ effect.
Another innovative feature is the lack of measurements – that’s right, you don’t need a ruler to play Crossfire! Turns are a combination of impulse (you just keep doing things until stopped by something or someone) and modular (an individual move ends whenever you enter a new object or terrain feature). Again this works well with the “variable length bound” concept and creates a real-life like ebb and flow of company and battalion level combat.
– publisher's website
- Designer
- Arty Conliffe
- Publisher
- Quantum Printing
- Year Published
- 1996
- Status
- In Print
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