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World War II
- 1/72 Miniatures – Plastic Soldiers & Diecast
Scale models, miniatures, plastic soldiers, wargaming, scale 1/72. - 20mm Gamer
Nick Grant’s “DE LUDIS BELLORUM STATUNCULIS PLASTICIS GESTORUM” – i.e. Concerning games of war waged with plastic figurines. - 20th Century Wargames
Al on the West Coast’s wargaming with mostly 1/72 scale plastic miniatures. - Across the Table
Historical Miniature Wargaming news from Keith McNelly’s “The Wargames Room”. - American & Japanese Aircraft of World War II
A great site listing over 260 US & Japanese aircraft types and details of the Air War in the Pacific as well as various other interesting bits of assorted WW2 Aircraft information. - Archduke Piccolo
Ion Dowman’s very personal, and eclectic, collection of wargaming plots and projects; battles and campaigns… with pictures; lotsa pictures…. - Archive Of The Colours @ War Flags
Not to be confused with ‘War Flag’ – great selection of Flags by Tom Gregg covering Medieval to Modern times, includign lots of good 17th & 18th Century and similar flag images. - Balkan Military History
Balkan Military History - Bayonet Strength
An enthusiasts’ site devoted to the various small unit organisations deployed by the major combatants during World War Two! - Belgian Fronts
On this site you will find data and pictures on various aspects of the First and Second World War in Belgium. It all started a few years ago when I made a site about the Liége fortresses… - Bringing Up the Rear
Greg Novak’s Odds and Sodds on this and That! - British 7th Armoured Division Operational History
A website dedicated to all those who served in the Division and wore the Jerboa shoulder flash. - Command Decision IV [CD4]
The fourth edition of Frank Chadwick’s Command Decision Rules… - Craig's Wargaming Blog
Craig Curtis’s Wargaming Blog. Reports of games played as well as news about his current modelling and painting projects. - Crete 2002: Spearhead campaign of the 1941 battle
Refight of Maleme and surrounding areas, May 1941, played in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2002. - Crossfire Official Homepage
Rules and Organizations for Company-Level WW-II Gaming. - David Manley's "General Quarters" Pages
Support for the General Quarters 1, 2, & 3 Rules for World War I, II, and Modern eras… - David Manley's "Victory At Sea" Pages
David Manley’s pages dedicated to VAS and expaning on the “VAS: Order of Battle” supplement which he worked on. - David Manley's Quick Play Coastal Forces Rules
David Manley’s Quick Play Coastal Forces & Other Naval Rules. - Edinburgh Wargames Group
The Edinburgh Wargamers do quite a bit of very nice looking 28mm Colonial & World War 1 (incl. Back of Beyond) games. There’s also an occasional mention of Crossfire for their 20mm WW2 stuff too! - Flames of War [FOW]
World War II Company level rules usually played in 15mm scale. These rules have a lot in common with Games Workshop’s Warhammer series of games so if you are familiar with those and new to WW2 and/or non-GW games, the learning curve into Flames of War is - France 1944 with Spearhead
Rich Baier’s website devoted to wargaming Normandy 1944 with Spearhead. - Free Wargames Rules
Pete Jones’s Free Wargames Rules Resource - Fuentes de Oñoro
John de Terre Neuve, wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller… - General Quarters 3 [GQ3]
Excellent new edition of the GQ1 & GQ2 fleet action rules from ODGW, with GQ3 being the new WW2 Naval Rules and an additional Supplement to cover WW1 (Fleet Action Imminent). There is also an excellent Solomon Island’s Campaign book. - German Forces in Normandy: June 1944
Research site by the author of “Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness” – lots of useful OOB & TO&E information from that campaign – Highly Recommended Book too! - German Random Name Generator
The name says it all… - Greece; Defence of in WW2
My website devoted to Greece and her military’s 1940-1941 campaign defending the country against Italy & Germany. - Gunfreak's Apartment of War
Norwegian Wargamer who’s only been wargaming for a few years but has painted a fair mass of figures… - Imperial Japanese Army Page by Taki
Site dedicated to Imperial Japanese Army based on Japanese sources, translated into English (Taki endeavours to look at the IJA solely from a military history viewpoint and neither praise the IJA nor ignore war crimes). This is the page to get comprehensi - Jacksarge's Wargames Ramblings
Ramblings on wargaming. - Kampfgruppe Normandy
Being the occasional postings of 20mm WW2 gamer John McLennan. - Katie's Wargames Stuff
Lots of eclectic information covering terrain, buildings & furniture, and figures (& fig compatibility) & rules for ECW, Pirates, 18th Century (Seven Years Picnic), Napoleonic, ACW, Wild West, World War 2, Fantasy, VSF, Dr Who, etc… Mostly 2 - Lead Odyssey, A
A Lead Odyssey is about Doug Melville’s hobby of collecting, painting and playing with toy soldiers. Including Napoleonic & Pre-Dreadnought Naval, plus Ancients, ECW & WSS, Napoleonics, WW1, WW2, Moderns, and Sci-Fi. - League of Augsburg, The
The site focuses on Napoleonic, Grand Alliance and World War Two gaming and downloads to support the rule systems Republic to Empire and Beneath the Lily Banners. Includes a Forum convering all these eras. - Lloydian Aspects
Nikolas Lloyd’s ‘lloydian aspects’ has lots of useful Crossfire stuff and advice for CF novices. - MAC Distribution
MAC Distribution. - MAFVA (Essex UK branch)
MAFVA. (Essex UK branch) - MAFVA (Miniature Armoured Fighting Vehicle Association) & Tankette Magazine
Miniature Armoured Fighting Vehicle Association which also publishes Tankette Magazine. - Matakishi’s Teahouse
Paul Ward’s “Matakishi’s Teahouse” has some fantastic Crossfire content, including “Dad’s Army” & Carentan from “Band of Brothers”. - Mortars in Miniature
A fantastic site with wonderful vignettes of nearly 50 assorted World War II and Modern Mortars and related information. - Nafziger Collection
The Nafziger Collection contains orders of battle from 1600 to 1945 with over 7000 individual pdf files. - Naval Wargames by David Manley
All sorts of rulesets for large and small fleets & vessels from the Napoleonic Age of Sail, to Ironclads & pre-Dreadnoughts, though to the Modern era. - New Zealand War History Project
All the NZ Official Histories on line – NZ Wars; Boer War; WW1 & WW2. e.g. campaigns of 2nd and 3rd Divisions, all the Battalion Histories and Service Arm Histories (Artillery, Transport, Cavalry, etc), plus Navy, Air Force, and Political Histories fo - Painting Little Soldiers
Paul (Jacko) Jackson’s One man crusade to paint as much lead as possible! - Plastic Warriors
1/76 & 1/72 Plastic Soldiers, Armour & Aircraft… - Rapid Fire [RF]
World War II at roughly the Brigade level, an easy fast moving “Beer & Pretzels” rule set usually played in 1/72nd (20mm) but playable in pretty much any scale… Emphasis is on fun rather than technical detail or accuracy. Scale is roughly 1:5, where - Romanian Armed Forces in the Second World War
Comprehensive Guide to the Romanian Armed Forces during Wordl War II including Organisation, OoB, Aeronautics, Weapons, Decorations, Military Operations, Generals & Memoirs, adn more. Also includes a small section on Romania in World War I. - Rosebud's Early Aviation Archive
From the realization of powered flight by an obscure Bavarian emigrant to the weapons of aerial destruction used by Richthofen’s flying circus, this project attempts to archive vintage photographs of flying machines flown before and during the first two d - Service Ration Distribution
Blog of a Scottish Grandfather & Wargamer. - Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers [SOTCW] & The SOTCW Journal
SOTCW covers everythign from 1900 to today – and publishes a quarterly magazine “The Journal”. - SOTCW Events Blog
The Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers is keen to get members meeting up for games and gatherings throughout the world and the Events Blog is to help organise such events… - Spearhead Official Website
Rules and Organizations for Division-Level World War II Wargaming. - Squad Painter
Fantastic site by Jeff Lower in California, a high quality figure painter who does lots of wonderful 28mm stuff… (and a little 6mm & 15mm). - Steven's Balagan
Steven Thomas’s Wargaming & Military History site wilth lots of Spanish & Portuguese Wars history and a huge amount of Crossfire wargaming material (including using it for periods other than 1930-1950)! - Tim Marshall’s Toys
Tim Marshall’s toys has an inspirational section on Crossfire! - Victory at Sea [VAS]
WW2 Naval Rules – also suitable for WW1. - Wargames Research Group [WRG]
Home of Phil Barker & Sue Laflin-Barker; authors of DBA, DBMM, and more. Includes free downloads of copies of many of their older rules sets or ones currently out of print (e.g. DBA & HotT). - WargamingNZ
Robin Sutton’s inane ramblings on war gaming and other hobby stuff!!! - Wings of War [WoW]
WW1 & WW2 Air Wargaming… - World War II Armed Forces by Dr Leo Niehorster
Excellent source for Orders of Battle and Organizations, and publisher of some excellent TO&E and OOB books on the German Army. - World War II Day By Day
Good source for German Orders of Battle (Gliederungen). - WW2 Images Blog
WW2 Images Blog
3 Feb 2012, 4:25 pm UTC Hundred Days British In these photos they are all Perry Miniatures figures - The British Infantry & Hu...
3 Feb 2012, 4:14 pm UTC Hundred Days British I quite like these figures, they're dynamic, and you've done them justice with the paint job. Who makes them?
3 Feb 2012, 3:30 pm UTC Charles Grant's 'Battle' - Free Online Hey Paul - in the dark - wow that's keen... Yep those were the days indeed... My early 'army men' style figs saw plenty of Grantesqe action in my M...
3 Feb 2012, 3:00 pm UTC Some Lovely Langton 1/1200 Ships Nice Pics Doug - although one's a little fuzzy! :-)
3 Feb 2012, 2:57 pm UTC Trafalgar vs. Signal Close Action Fast Play Thanks for the post Grant - yes its interesting different peoples' experiences & expectations. I'll confess I've only played it twice, but it b...
3 Feb 2012, 2:43 pm UTC WSS Here I Come - Well Almost! Hi Don, Thanks for the post. Yes the uniforms can seem a bit over-whelming, however in fact they are relatively straightforward. For example almos...