Up Front (1983)

A card game that is loosely based on Avalon Hill's Squad Leader series. Each player directs a squad of men in various scenarios with cards driving the action. Nicely balanced and very playable for a wargame. The only real problem with this game is the rulebook. Have a friend teach you.

New edition coming from MMP. Home page: http://www.multimanpublishing.com/OtherGames/produpfrnt.php

Expanded by:

• Banzai
• Desert War
• The Babies and the Beasts
• Smoking Cobras
• Sword of the Balkans
• Waffen SS/The Fanatics
• The Polish Never Quit!/Warsaw's Warriors
• Folgore

Online Play

• Wargameroom (real-time)
• Vassal (real-time, pbem)

The GENERAL Index Article List:

• The GENERAL Vol.20,No.2
  • The Question Box - Up Front
• The GENERAL Vol.21,No.1
  • Up Front – “Play Your Cards Up Front - An Old Fashioned Card Playing Lesson” by Don Greenwood
  • Up Front – “Up Front by the Numbers - An Analysis of the Odds” by Jim Burnett
  • Series Replay - Up Front, Scenario A by Rex A. Martin, Don Greenwood, Ken Whitesell
  • Up Front – “Design Analysis - 2nd Edition Up Front” by Don Greenwood
  • The Question Box - Up Front
  • Contest #119 - Up Front
• The GENERAL Vol.22,No.2
  • Up Front,Banzai – “Return to the Front - A Look at the Scenarios” by Jim Burnett and Ron Whaley
  • The Question Box - Up Front, Afrika Korps, Victory in the Pacific
• The GENERAL Vol.23,No.2
  • “MOVING Up Front: A Study of Movement Options” (Strategy) By Rex A. Martin
• The GENERAL Vol.25,No.3
  • Up Front – “Up Front with Sgt. Rock- American problems in the patrol scenario” (Commentary) Stephen Harvester
• The GENERAL Vol.25,No.6
  • Up Front – “UP ON THE AFRICAN FRONT-The Desert War Expansion for the Up Front Series” (Strategy) by Steve Harvester
• The GENERAL Vol.28,No.3
  • Up Front – “A Decade of shuffling along” (Commentary) Don Hawthorne
  • Up Front – “The end in sight -Battle at the Reichschancellery 28-3/A3” (Scenarios) Don Hawthorne
  • Up Front – “A little corner of hell -Assault on Bastogne 28-3/B3” (Scenarios) Don Hawthorne
  • The Question Box - Up Front
• The GENERAL Vol.28,No.4
  • Up Front – “The Up Front Column - Hammer from the Sky 28-4/A” (Scenarios) George Kettler
  • Up Front – “The Up Front Column - Encounter at the Bulge 28-4/B” (Scenarios) Jim Murphy
  • Up Front – “The Up Front Column - Incident on the Elbe 28-4/D” (Scenarios) Mike Reed
  • Up Front – “The Up Front Column - The Deep,Dark Woods 28-4/C” (Scenarios) George Kettler
• The GENERAL Vol.28,No.5
  • Up Front – “The Up Front Column- Spiders in the Grass 28-5A” (Scenario) Don Hawthorne
• The GENERAL Vol.28,No.6
  • Up Front – “The Up Front Column - 28-6/A Tough Old Gut” (Scenarios)
• The GENERAL Vol.29,No.2
  • Up Front – “Marginal wins/losses for Up Front tournaments” (Variant) Mark Oliver
• The GENERAL Vol.29,No.6
  • Up Front – “In the mountains” (Variant Discussion) Alan R. Arvold

BattlePlan Index Article List:

• Battleplan,No.8 January-February 1989
  • Up Front – “Ortona - The Western Stalingrade” - A Canadian Up Front scenario, Keith Martens

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