While the player fights mostly wanzers, vehicles, aircraft, and mobile weapons platforms are also featured. Destruction of arm and leg parts does not remove the wanzer from play, but it severely cripples its performance. In the event the body is destroyed, the wanzer is removed from play completely. The legs parts enable movement and evasion, the arm parts are necessary to use hand and shoulder weapons, and the body part maintains the wanzer's operability.

Each part has a specific function and its own health bar.

A wanzer differs from the typical combat unit in that it has four modular parts: body, left arm, right arm, and legs, in accordance with the MULS-P standard. In Front Mission, players use playable units called wanzers, a term for mecha derived from the German word Wanderpanzer, or 'walking tank'. Battle zones are where the missions take place, though they become inaccessible upon the completion of a mission. Towns and cities act as intermission points where the player can organize, backtrack, and set up their units for the upcoming mission. As the player progresses through the plot, new locations are revealed on the world map. The player travels to locations on a point-and-click world map.

Game progression in Front Mission proceeds in a linear manner: watch cut-scene events, complete missions, set up wanzers during intermissions, and sortie for the next mission.

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