FRONTLINE tm is a soon to be released set of rules and guidelines for simulating World War II combat on a squad / platoon level using miniature soldiers and vehicles. The game concentrates on SMALL unit actions at the "sharp end of the stick" so to speak... were the battles are won!

FRONTLINE is very much about squad and platoon level tactics it is not about tactical movement from village to village. It is about the house to house struggle to take that one village, were the actions of individual squads and even an individual soldier can make the difference between victory and defeat!

If  you are looking for a rule set to let you field dozens of tanks and scads of infantry blasting your way across the table forget it. FRONTLINE is about the careful use of tactics and a combined arms force to achieve your objectives. 

FRONTLINE was developed by myself and several others after playing a good many other rule sets. Most of those set were very good but we always felt that there was something missing in them. One would have great combat and sighting rules but ignore command and morale, the next had the command and morale but sighting was automatic! despite the fact that most combatants in WWII never really saw each other, just ask any of the Normandy campaign veterans! So after playing these rule sets and being unsatisfied we would start to modify them, change a little here, a lot there, I finally said why don't we do it right and start from the ground up! FRONTLINE was born. We had a good set of basic armor stats written by a good friend Steve Lorenz for his "Panzer War" rule set that was very popular across the country with the 1/285th scale WWII armor players. We interrogated these stats into our rules and began play testing every weekend. 

We have been playing them know for over 5 years in one form or another. Constantly revising and modifying them as different situations arise on the battlefield. Lately I have been being asked more and more to publish them. I never really wanted to since nobody is going to get "rich" publishing a rules set (except Arty Coneliefe and the guys a GDW) and with a family, dog, bird, and a very full time career in the film biz in Los Angeles I just didn't know were the time would come from. After all if I was going to do this I thought I would have to do it right and that meant not just throwing it together, plopping it in a binder and shipping it off to a couple of game stores. I wanted to have updates, add-ons, corrections, a way to get feedback from players and answer their questions! I did not want this rule set to be like the countless others I had that had sections that were great but you were never sure if you were doing it right or not.

Well with the advent of the "Web" the support of the rules, with, updates, rules clarification section, and email became possible. So for better or worse we are going to try it, mostly as a labor of love.

I have included a couple of links through out this FRONTLINE section to allow you to see actual pages from the rules which will give you a better feel for what FRONTLINE is all about and save me time writing all this again! The pages are pretty much as they appear in the actual rule set but formatting is different here.

Take a look at the FRONTLINE "Basic conventions" page

Take a look at the FRONTLINE "Command" page 

<---- Great picture isn't it! This happened in one of our recent games. The Panzerschrek team who knew through contact with another command group that there was a column of American vehicles on the road. After receiving orders to move into contact the "team" snuck up on the column, despite there being a American squad on the other side of the "Hedgerow". The highly developed sighting rules in FRONTLINE prevented the American squad from seeing the "Schrek" team until it was too late for the "Sherman"

After destroying this "Sherman" the team fired and missed a second "Sherman" just left of this one. How ever the several of the "American" members had spotted the smoke trails from the "schreck" team and started to put suppressive fire on them causing them to retire back to German lines.

 This is the type of action you can expect in FRONTLINE! 

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