Bitter in the Duchy today. A chance encounter with a neighbour led me to me being told about excellent bargains in seeds. They were on sale for about a fifth of the normal price, so l stocked up-
In other matters l have been watching quite a few videos about “ Crossfire” Wargames rules. I am fascinated by the mechanics and await the arrival of my copy with great anticipation…
Arty Conliffe’s Crossfire? One of my favorite sets of rules - I find them very clearly written and they provide rather enjoyable games where you think more in terms of "I'm going to take the woods with these two squads" and not "Will i reach the woods in my allotted 6" movement distance?". I highly recommend visiting https://balagan.info/ if you haven't already (he's like the Godfather of Crossfire) and Dick Bryant's http://mgluteus.blogspot.com/2012/03/cross-fire-small-2-x-2-scenarios-am.html which is a collection of six small area scenarios that require only minimal forces and terrain (for Crossfire).
ReplyDeleteMost helpful. Thanks. The variants are interesting too. I have found that the videos showing examples of play have been very helpful too. For example-
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Lindybeige and Little Wars tv too.
Alan Tradgardland
Er, my apologies, Alan. I forgot you had asked me to write up something for you on CF. But what John Y said is a great start.
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No worries at all Eric! I will probably bend your ear when I am further into the rules and am confused…
DeleteAlan Tradgardland
A very nice collection of seeds there!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I hope I can do them justice. Recent years have not been too successful. I am engaged in a life or death struggle with slugs that goes on and on. A forever war…
DeleteThey decimate my young plants…
Alan Tradgardland
All this talk of Crossfire reminds me of my magazine article years ago where I used these rules with Napoleonics to do actions from the siege of Sargossa [the Stalingrad of its day].
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Tell us more , I am sure that many will be interested…
DeleteAlan Tradgardland
Ah yes, Crossfire. Played it when it first was published in the 90s. But beware! Ppl love crossfire because of the novel turn and movement system: units can move as far as they want until they're stopped by fire; and one players can keep activating units until a unit is suppressed (don't remember the exact condition). The second aspect (variable player turn) is now very common with e.g. unit activation mechanisms. The 1st aspect (unlimited movement till something happens) was and still is very new, but it's only described in the rulebook by a single paragraph :-)
ReplyDeleteThe majority of the rules still deal with combat resolution, and it shows its age on that aspect. YMMV.
Comments noted and I will take this into consideration.
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