Up Front is a World War II card-based wargame. It was designed by Courtney F. Allen and published by Avalon Hill in 1983. Hasbro now owns the franchise which is currently (2003) licensed to Multi-Man Publishing. Combatants Allies: • Soviet Union, • UK & Commonwealth, • USA, • France/Free France, • China, • Poland, • ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Japan, • Italy, • ...and others Casualties Military dead: 18 million Civilian dead: 33 million Full list Military dead: 7 million Civilian dead: 4 million Full list World War II, also known as the Second World... Wargaming can be one of number of ways of exploring the effects of warfare without actual combat. ... Avalon Hill was a game company that specialized in wargames and strategic board games. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Hasbro logo uses a smile to indicate the carefree nature of its products. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Multi-Man Publishing, LLC (MMP) is a game company formed by baseball player Curt Schilling and his partners to keep the game series Advanced Squad Leader alive. ...

Subtitled The Squad Leader Card Game, Up Front was intended as a card version of their successful Squad Leader series of games, but it represented a radical change in approach. Traditional wargames are based on maps representing terrain and game pieces representing units, which attack on their players' turns. Up Front has terrain, attack opportunities, and other factors determined by cards dealt to the players. Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) is a wargame that simulates small unit actions (individual counters represent single vehicles, men and squads) in World War II. It is not simply a game, but rather a detailed game system. ...

Fans of the game claim this type of play gives the player a more realistic feel for man-to-man combat where most terrain will be unfamiliar. With traditional map-based wargames, players have an overhead view of the entire battlefield. In Up Front, locations are revealed as the game is played, emulating how real soldiers might encounter and explore terrain. Man-to-Man wargames are wargames in which units generally represent single individuals or weapons systems, and are rated not only on weaponry but may also be rated on such facets as morale, perception, skill-at-arms, etc. ... Combat, or fighting, is purposeful conflict between one or more persons, often involving violence and intended to establish dominance over the opposition. ...

The game contains two different kinds of cards, Personality and Action. A Personality card depicts a unit, including his name, rank, the weapon he is carrying and several statistics. These are assigned by the scenario selected (scenarios lettered A-L were included in the base game) and arranged in groups by the players. The Action deck contains different types of cards including terrain, movement, heroes, and many other game factors. These are shuffled and dealt to the players.

The original game included German, US, and Russian units along with their equipment. Expansions added to the available units. Each nationality was given different capabilities for card play: hand size and discard capability give impose different tactics for the players. United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ...

Expansions

Two official expansions were released for Up Front:

• Banzai (1984), which included Japanese, British, and USMC forces along with rules for Jungle Terrain, Random Reinforcements, and Scenarios M-X.
• Desert War (1985), which included French, and Italian forces as well as rules for Desert Terrain.

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Legacy

Like many Avalon Hill games, Up Front continues to be popular among loyal fans. There are active groups dedicated to the game on the Internet.

Multi-Man Publishing plans to re-release the game through their license of the title.

There is also a VASSAL module for this game; http://www.vassalengine.org

External links

• Andrew R. Maly's Up Front site
• Boardgamegeek's Up Front listing
• Hunter Johnson's Up Front site
• Halisp Up Front mailing list
• Yahoo! Up Front group

Up Front is also a straight edge hardcore band from Connecticut that were active in the late 1980's and have recently re-united. Up Front's MySpace