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.)

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

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

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

In the Battleground WWII rules you can play with as little as a couple minis to as many as you can realistically field on your gaming table. Because we play 25mm - 32mm we usually stick with no more than platoon size and as little as a half squad of men. I’ve played company level with this system and unless you are very familiar with the rules I would suggest against it.

It’s a great historical heavy system and is easily modified to Weird War, modern or sci-fi with just a little tweaking. It’s one of the best gaming rules sets I have ever played and would suggest it to anyone who is looking for a skirmish level system for WWII or your Weird War II gaming. You can get the rules from the link below and can often find the sets on e-bay.

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

• 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