"On All Fronts" was a SQUAD LEADER (SL) and ADVANCED SQUAD LEADER (ASL) newsletter published from 1982 through 1997 by M.C.C covering 123 issues. Its contributors and Terry Treadaway, the editor and creator, produced one hundred and thirty-seven SL scenarios and approximately three hundred scenarios for both SL and ASL. Each newsletter also contained articles on game play, letters to the editor, and information on events and products. It was the first third-party magazine dedicated to SL and an important source for scenario hungry fans at a time before the world wide web.
The scenarios were frequently creative, with design innovations such as solitaire (e.g., Chance Encounters, The Bowling Alley), the Japanese (Bottcher's Corner), campaign games (Otryad, Battle of Arracourt, The 82nd in Normandy) and monster scenarios (Sevastopol, Across the Ambleve River). They had design contests, and introduced variant rules that extended new characteristics to older nationalities. They also provided new counters, overlays and boards opening the door to new ideas and community-created content.
The articles discussed various game related topics such as play-by-mail, questions and answers, tactics and house-rules. Notable contributors included Bill Wilder, producer of "Blood and Sand", and James M Collier, who's dissenting view of GIA appeared in the General, among others. An index through 1984 is available here as well as some related articles here. Approximately three hundred and forty articles were published during its lifetime.
As the system developed through ASL, "On All Fronts" was the platform the early community coalesced around. Bill Wilder found play-testers for Blood and Sand, and a market for the finished product. The Scenario Exchange Program shared many of its scenarios. Forty-plus designers cut and pasted their scenarios together, and had them published (occasionally with misspellings and white-out marks). It had the Central Railway Station Campaign Game years before Avalon Hill released the Valor of the Guards. Players found opponents and booked tournaments. It was a pioneer on the new frontier, the wild west of SL. Its lawlessness allowed innovation, scenario balance be damned, before the structure came. It was new scenarios every month.
It is easy to dismiss for its low production standards, sometimes poorly written articles and grammar mistakes. Its Macintosh printer survived far more printed pages than it should. However, one cannot look at the development of the game system without recognizing its contribution to SL, ASL and the community for more than fifteen years. After one hundred and twenty-three issues, Terry Treadaway told subscribers that "Fifteen years is a long time to devote to publishing a newsletter and I feel that it is enough." The last issue was published February of 1997, and that old Macintosh printer finally got some rest.
SCENARIOS PUBLISHED
Squad Leader 16
Cross of Iron 23
Crescendo of Doom 20
G. I. Anvil of Victory 78
Total 137
MONSTER SCENARIOS
Sevastopol - 1,432 pc, 28 bd, 48 trn.
Across the Ableve River - 1,378 pc,
20 bd, 45 trn.
Otryad - 61 pc, 16 bd, 36 trn
HIGHLIGHTS
First published September, 1982.
Last scenario published December, 1993.
Forty-five+ scenario designers.
Top contributors were Jeff Cebula (23), Bill Wilder (9), Ted Bleck (8), Tim Taylor (7).
REFERENCES
Magazine covers. "On All Fronts". The Tactical Wargamer.
https://tacticalwargamer.com/boardgames/advancedsquadleader/publications/onallfronts.htm
Review of Magazine. "On All Fronts". Desperation Moral.
https://www.desperationmorale.com/products/on-all-fronts/
Game Magazines. "WGA Reference Library". Wargame Academy.
http://www.wargameacademy.org/rpub.html