Crossfire Competition

Canadians

Model Details & Crossfire Notes

Armour

Infantry

Tank Platoon

Sherman 75mm, +1 PC
Sherman Firefly, 2 SVDS rounds
Sherman 75mm
Sherman 75mm

Tank Platoon

Sherman 75mm, +1 PC
Sherman Firefly, 2 SVDS rounds
Sherman 75mm
Sherman 75mm

Tank Company HQ

Sherman Firefly, 2 SVDS rounds

Note: Fireflies can be organized into a separate platoon, if desired.

Artillery Observer, 25 Pounder Battery

Carrier, 8 HE + 2 Smoke shoots available, FO can dismount

Infantry Company

+2 CC
MG
Rifle Squad w/PIAT
Rifle Squad w/PIAT

1st Platoon

+1 PC
Rifle Squad w/2" mortar, 2 smoke
Rifle Squad
Rifle Squad

2nd Platoon

+1 PC
Rifle Squad w/2" mortar, 2 smoke
Rifle Squad
Rifle Squad

3rd Platoon

+1 PC
Rifle Squad w/2" mortar, 2 smoke
Rifle Squad
Rifle Squad

From Battalion Carrier Platoon

MG Carrier
Carrier, Nose Bren, 2" mortar, 2 smoke, +1 SC
Carrier, Nose Bren, rear compartment Bren
Carrier, Nose Bren, rear compartment Bren

Notes:
1. Indirect and direct smoke shoots are expended whether or not the smoke is effective.
2. All Sherman 75mm are permitted a total of 1 attempt to shoot smoke direct.
3. 2" Mortars are permitted a total of 2 attempts to shoot smoke direct.
4. Infantry CC may also call the 25 pounder battery.
5. Infantry MG can be attached to a platoon or operate independantly.
6. All forces are veteran.

Back to to Crossfire Competition Canadian Forces

All 75mm Shermans are, as you can probably guess by looking at them, Airfix. The three Fireflies are Matchbox models. The single Universal Carrier (the FO) is Airfix, while the 4 in the carrier section (right) are scratch-built from plastic card. The figures are mostly Airfix British infantry, though there are some Matchbox figures, ESCI and Revell.

Of possible interest might be the way in which we use carriers in Crossfire. The Carrier is treated as a "hybrid infantry/AFV stand":

It is treated as an infantry stand with respect to being firing at, except, all small arms fire is -1 die (ie, portable cover!). Thus the carrier can be suppressed or killed by rifle/SMG/MG/other infantry stands.
Pins are ignored (though reactive fire that achieves a pin is still able to fire, ie not marked NO FIRE).
In close combat, it is treated as a crew served weapon (due to small numbers of soldiers it carries relative to a rifle/SMG squad).
For firing, it is assumed to have a nose weapon, which has a 45 degree left/right arc (like an MG). Also, there will be a rear compartment mounted weapon with a 360 degree arc of fire. Thus, for example, if the nose and rear weapon are Brens, the carrier fires with 3 dice in the front 45 degree arc (both weapons), and 2 dice only (the single bren) outside of this arc.
For other weapon combinations, if there is an ATR in the nose, the carrier fires with 2 dice 360 degrees, and in the front 45 degrees can fire the ATR. I usually assume that an MG carrier has the MG (Vickers) mounted in the rear compartment, affording a 360 degree arc of fire of 4 dice, but there is no nose weapon.
The crew may ground hug and the carrier can still move, but the rear compartment weapon cannot be fired. Thus a carrier with 2 brens whose crew is ground hugging only may fire in its front 45 degree arc with 2 dice. A ground hugging crew is fired at with small arms with -1 die and -1 pip.
Carriers are organized into sections which are analogous to platoons (it's my understanding that the carrier platoon of about 13 carriers in an infantry battalion was organized into and probably attached out in smaller sections). The section commander, SC, is an active carrier which may fire as described above, unlike an ordinary infantry PC stand. The SC serves the same purpose as the infantry PC.