It was said that although they got the licence to republish it, Hasbro still had the rights and obviously had different ideas what to do with the game – fact is despite a project Up Front 2000, which was the supposed date for publishing the reprint, this name became sort of a placeholder even after the year 2000 and now the time for a possible reprint by MMP is over. The licence was given to MMP by Hasbro (holding the rights to Avalon Hill games) years ago and the well known ASL publisher tried for years to get a reprint done – without success. Its brilliant design, innovative aspects, simulation value and smooth gameplay was the reason that it won so many friends. The game was published 1983 and till this day is one of the favorite games of probably the majority of wargamers. Valley Games, a small game company that also has a few wargames in their portfolio today announced on Board Game Geek that they will publish a reprint of one of the all time classics of our hobby: Up Front – The Squad Leader Card Game Just in case you didn’t notice the earthquake that shook the (wargame) world today, here are a few words on that. That’s like all ASL players rolled just … Snake Eyes!!! 🙂 You can find the announcement on the CSW and GamesSquad forums. It seems that MMP has a different opinion about this now and this is really good news, so we can expect a professionally produced eASLRB in the hopefully near future. So some folks out there went an extra mile by producing such an eASLRB for themselves… 😛 They always rejected this because of possible copyright issues. Yep that’s right – the community for years tried to convince MMP that to publish the Big Tome in an electronic format where you can quickly search for a rule, would help a lot to make the game more accessible.

Yesterday we heard about the reprint of Up Front – The Squad Leader Card Game, unbelievable as it is, it seems to be true.Īnd today Chas Argent part of the MMP team is asking for help on the wargame forums saying they need proofreaders for an electronic version of the ASL rulebook. One should check the actual date twice these days since it really seems like it’s April 1st for two days in a row now… 😉

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