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Army Organization Headaches

Sometimes I think wargames are too simplistic in how the players have perfect command over every individual in their army. Be it in games with alternating activations or ones that uses IGYG, the commander (in this case the player) have perfect communication that can give pin-point instructions to all their subordinates. So below are some "Army Organization Headaches" that I think very interesting to try out. In this particular example I am going to use OnePageRules as the basis. Lion/Dragon/Xenos Rampant: Addition of a "Command Phase", which happens before the normal gameplay phase that I am going to call "Activation Phase". At the beginning of every round, in this "Morale Phase", mark all units that are in the hybrid or the melee unit types (see the solo/co-op rules) and is in melee range of an enemy unit AND - OR  in range of a melee charge from an enemy unit that has been marked in the previous procedure. Starting with the player that have the

Crossfire in the 41st millenium

Crossfire using 40k miniatures units.  Should be able to be played using Epic Armageddon miniatures. This has not been playtested at all, just some musing I thought and can't help but write out somewhere. In particular Everything here would need points assigned for armybuilding. For starters, the guardsmen (and their chaos equivalent) are the baseline humans and thus play identically like the original crossfire ww2 factions. All of them operates like the british, in that stands can only move if they are in LoS of their PC. Also using more dice for shooting. This makes combat deadlier for the baseline humans but balanced a bit for the tougher stuff. Default for rifle is 4, LMG and SMG 6. Now here's the spicy stuff, everything is the same as vanilla game, with the addition of: Optional alternate way to operate, if you can't or rather not use PCs for your infantry, make it so that stands that previously required LoS to PC to move now requires to be within LoS of each other of

Super Basic Deconstructable 3mm Lasercut Dice Tower

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DOWNLOAD LINK HERE Here is a very simple dice tower, made for laser-cut 3mm material of your choice. Personally I choose mdf, and it cost like half a dollar (7k IDR). Can be easily assembled and disassembled for easier storage. No glue is required. Made using Blender, exported using the Flatterer addon. DOWNLOAD LINK HERE

Paper Miniatures: WW2 Soldiers for CrossFire Mini Scenarios

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  Paper CrossFire Mini Scenario Units DOWNLOAD LINK By default, a single page of this can be assembled to form all the necessary units (and also minefield) to play Steven's CrossFire Mini Scenario . Although I have to note that I use the mines marker differently, in my design, you are supposed to hide a pair of those markers under two terrain features, revealing their positions and the "line" they form only when an enemy unit moves on it. And the Sniper unit is not necessary but could be used in a houserule that I made . Each base has lines to indicate their forward and backward facing directions, 90° lines at the sides to mark the front and backward arc of the unit, and lines at 45° from the front-facing line to indicate the Arc of Fire. Besides the 45° lines for MG Squads, most of these lines are not in use by the vanilla CrossFire ruleset, it depends on the houserules you are using. So it was designed specifically for my own CrossFire scale, with round stands and sizes

Papercraft Wargame Terrain: 1/200 Bunkers

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1/200 paper bunkers and barbed wire DOWNLOAD LINK By default, a single page of this can be assembled to 3 4x4 cm bunkers and 4 2x2 cm pillboxes, all with  removable roofs, and floors with lines to aid in determining sightlines and arc of fires. Also, a bunch of barbed wire parts to be assembled, example in the picture provided. A .psd file is also provided so that you can edit the page layout if you so wish. It was designed specifically for my own CrossFire scale, with the 4x4 bunker able to house at least two standard stands, and the 2x2 pillbox a single standard stand. But of course, you can use it on any game you like, should you find it useable. The models in the A4 .pdf file provided is made to fit in 1/200 scale (around 8 mm) but in theory, you can resize it to whatever scale/size you want, however, be wary of blurring. The complete assembly is fine to stand on its own but I use thick cardstock paper for added strength and weight. The design is simple enough that I do not think a

Papercraft Wargame Terrain: 1/200 Houses

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1/200 paper houses DOWNLOAD LINK By default, a single page of this can be assembled to 4 different 3.5x4.5 cm houses, all with varying colors of walls, removable roofs, and floors with 45-degree angles to aid in determining sightlines and arc of fires. A .psd file is also provided so that you can edit the page layout or even the colors of the walls if you so wish. It was designed specifically for my own CrossFire scale, with each house able to house at most two standard stands. But of course, you can use it on any game you like, should you find it useable. The models in the A4 .pdf file provided is made to fit in 1/200 scale (around 8 mm) but in theory, you can resize it to whatever scale/size you want, however, be wary of blurring. The complete assembly is fine to stand on its own but I use thick cardstock paper for added strength and weight. The design is simple enough that I do not think an assembly guide is necessary. Although you might be confused about how to assemble the roof su