Well I guess the first part of this is to determine how many games there are. Counting those not yet released there are:

• AE-WWII
• Secrets of the Third Reich
• Reich of the Dead
• Amazing War Stories
• Battleground Weird War II which is an expansion for the Battleground WWII rules
• Hölle auf Erden
• Neldereth’s Weird War expansion (PDF link) for NUTS

This isn’t a definitive list and I am sure others may add games I haven’t listed here

Amazing War Stories can be played with six to ten miniatures depending on how you want to build each force.

Secrets of the Third Reich can, and Jim will correct me if I am wrong, play with about 30 minis a side for a small game and it can scale to quite large battles. Its built to have more of a mass combat game style

Andres, Secrets of the Third Reich can be played at a very engaging level with as few as two models in scenarios and scales up to a primary focus on the platoon level where you could play a Battlesuit Platoon of 10-15 guys all the way up to a huge zombie horde consisting of 100 or so models. In other words, its designed to suit your taste in model count. One could choose a Russian conscript platoon with 75 models in it or could choose an elite British SAS Platoon of 25 models. Furthermore, you can play at the squad level with 10 models or so or at the company level with hundreds of models!

There really is no set model count. It all depends on your personal preference and that of your gaming group. You bring your own favorite scale to the game.

Jim Bailey
SoTR Developer

Very informative! I’ve been very curious about this genre recently, as well. Thanks for the great info.

we have a great range of WW2 Horror miniatures and these are some of the models highlighted in Amazing War Stories

http://www.brigadegames.com/go.mvc?ID=BGADVH

I use Crossfire for my Weird War games, adding rules for specialist units where appropriate.

Crossfire is a Company sized game which uses (typically) 30 miniatures and a couple of vehicles each for a standard 2 player game of a single Company a side. If you use smaller figures than my 28mm ones, or have more space than my 6ft x 4ft table you could up the numbers to battalion level and use roughly 100 figures a side.

I chose Crossfire over the dedicated Weird War rules sets available for a number of reasons. Firstly I already have all the basic troops I’ll need so I can concentrate on the weird stuff, secondly I can use whatever fluff and miniatures I want and thirdly, and most importantly for me, Crossfire is an excellent set of WWII rules that is better than anything else currently available including the weird war ones.

Edited to add my link (non-commercial)
Crossfire: http://www.matakishi.com/wwii19391945.htm
Weird Crossfire: http://www.matakishi.com/weirdwar21939.htm

It’s designed that way since the basic unit is a squad. Officers are separate. However there’s no need to multi base if you don’t want to as the game will work either way.

I much prefer muti-based figures as it protects the paint, allows for mini diorama basing and speeds up play. But it’s a personal thing and others like single figures.

You can play Crossfire with individually based figures in (at least) two ways. You can move a group of three figures together as a squad, there is no measuring in Crossfire so it’s pretty much as quick as moving a group base or, for the skirmish gamer, you can use option 2:

Option 2
Because of the figure/man ratio in Crossfire a platoon in the table actually consists of 10-12 figures which is essentially a squad at 1:1. You can field a Crossfire company and say it’s a platoon with single based figures. The only ‘problem’ is that your platoon will have access to more support weapons than it would in real life but this is Weird war so who cares? (If you care take out the mortars or something and don’t use them, simple.)