Front Lines

Each scenario recreates a battle on its actual ground. Pick a unit from your roster and place it on a glowing deployment slot, using terrain to your advantage. When every unit is positioned, commit the assault, the engine resolves it deterministically and grades you against the historical par.

• Select a unit, then tap a glowing slot to deploy it
• Terrain counts where the enemy stands: hills, towns and forest strengthen its defense; rivers and marsh weaken your assault
• Match unit to target: cavalry against open ground and roads, skirmishers against forest and marsh, guns against hills
• Commit the battle and match or beat the historical par to win

• Desktop: click a unit chip, then click a deployment slot on the map; click Commit Battle
• Phone & tablet: tap a unit, tap a slot, then tap Commit

• Watch the projected score update as you place each unit and tune the line before committing
• Your own tile gives no bonus: each unit attacks the nearest enemy and closer fights are more decisive, so deploy to choose your targets
• Practice mode lets you step through every battle; Daily gives one shared scenario

Front Lines is a deployment-and-terrain tactics game built around historical battles, teaching how geography shaped their outcomes.

• Skills: military history, historical battles, terrain and tactics, strategy
• Best for: roughly grades 7–12 (ages 12+)
• For parents & teachers: historical battles through terrain and tactics.

Deploying units on a battle's actual ground, using terrain, is military tactics at the scale where terrain still decides things.

Recreating real engagements on their real geography is the original constraint.

Using the true ground is what keeps it historical. Most battles are remembered for decisions, but the decisions were shaped by ridges, rivers and roads that constrained where anyone could be — which is why the same plan on flat ground is a different plan.

Further reading: Every Arm Has a Weakness

Front Lines is an original deployment-and-terrain tactics game built around historical battles. Play free in your browser with a daily battle and a browsable practice campaign.

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1. Every Arm Has a Weakness

   In Front Lines, no unit type dominates everywhere. Three arms trade an edge on some ground for a penalty on the rest; infantry, the fourth, carries no terrain modifier at all. Deployment becomes a stu