UP FRONT / Our First Livestream! / Full Game PLAYTHROUGH / SD HistCon Second Front 2024
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- We were honored to be asked to host an event at SD HistCon Second Front 2024, a one-day online historical gaming convention that happened on the 8th of June. We decided to play a game of Up Front, the old Avalon Hill classic.
As this was our first livestream, please forgive the lackluster sound and video quality.
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Only once in a great while does a game dare to be truly different and abandon old concepts while striking out to chart virgin territory in game design. Rarer still are the instances in which these games succeed in presenting a simulation of unparalleled realism in an easily comprehended and playable format. In UP FRONT, we have just such a game. Gone are the hexes and charts of conventional wargames; replaced by innovative and attractive game components which have distilled a wealth of technical data into one of the most playable, yet detail laden formats ever devised.
UP FRONT is a game of man-to-man infantry combat set in WWII Europe. In many ways, the game is more realistic than SQUAD LEADER principles in that its inherent mechanics simulate the fear and confusion of the battlefield and the inability of leadership to assert itself far better than any tactical combat game yet published. There is no playing board; it has been replaced by Terrain cards which become the “hexagons” of the game as players maneuver their forces via Action cards over constantly changing terrain. The scale of the game is measured in terms of relative ranges between opposing forces, with most combat occurring within a scale distance of 500 meters during the course of player turns measured in varying seconds of actual time.
UP FRONT is a game player’s game, rich in detail yet easily playable within the space of a lunch hour. However, it also contains engrossing Multi-Player and Campaign Game versions which could last a week or more. Like SQUAD LEADER, UP FRONT is an open-ended game capable of depicting endless Design-Your-Own variations of small unit actions between American, German and Russian combatants. Tanks, Assault Guns, Smoke, Anti-Tank Rifles, Demolition Charges, Pillboxes, Partisans, SS, Entrenchments, Anti-Tank Mines, Infantry Guns, Flamethrowers, Armoured Cars, Halftracks, Panzerfausts, Bazookas, Panzerschrecks, Wire, Ambushes, Radios, Artillery, Minefields, Mortars, Snipers, Starshells, Heroes, Prisoners and Fords are all accounted for. In fact, UP FRONT encompasses almost everything that the SQUAD LEADER game system has taken four gamettes to do, and does so in a far more playable format. The game can be summed up in four words: Innovation, playability, detail and realism. That’s an unbeatable combination.
UP FRONT is rated 4 on the Avalon Hill Complexity scale of 1 (easy) to 10 (difficult).
Recommended for two or more discriminating players of skill, ages 12 & up.
Fantastic, great to see this played. Now I have some idea how the game flows.
Stay tuned, as we are replaying a classic game that appeared in the general magazine many years ago
Cool, I was sorting through my old copy just the other day. Didn't think anyone else knew it existed.
Oh yeah! And we will be doing further content on it as well
Set this up to watch later. Wanted the game in 83 but just didnt buy it. Got the wargame vault reprint (nice enough BTW) so will use your play through as a learning tool! Thanks guys!
Stay tuned, as we are going to have a proper playthrough with better cinematography and sound. I just thought it would be neat to publish this because it was our first live stream ever!
I got the Wargame Vault reprints also, but gave up on trying to learn it solo. This will definitely help!
This video was hard to follow. Looking forward to the follow up.
Glad to hear that!
The follow-up is coming soon. I know it wasn't the best format, as we had never really done a live stream before so we were figuring it out
After the first movement is playes you are still considered to be in the last terrain you played. So the forst move played by the Americans they are moving along that wall and still get the cover from it.
Yes, but that cover is mitigated/offset by the +1 for movement
You guys took my suggestion. This great and I haven't even watched it yet.
We are going to feature more Up Front content (with better sound and video!) soon, stay tuned!
@@LegendaryTactics Excellent. Just got done watching and thoroughly enjoyed it. The amount of fire cards pulled at the right time while not rally in sight was nuts. I know nothing about setting up games to film, but Up Front! is one of those games crying out for an overhead angle. Up Front! is one of those games that weaves a great story -- one of if not my favorite game of all time. Thanks for putting this out.
I still have my copy of the original. Really cool game. I also had Banzai! but it's been lost to time.
I still have Banzai, and the 2nd expansion (Desert War?), which came, disappointingly, in a paper envelope