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War! What purpose would we have in this life without it?

It’s been five years since the Siphonapterian scourge was first encountered on Apterion VI. In the years since, the superflea plague has spread across more and more of our great Empire. We still do not know how they spread, but we do know wherever our ships went after fighting them last they would appear, as if following us—clearly aiming to discover our homeworld and consume it. 

Now more than ever, we need good and honorable Soldiers to take the fight directly to the Siphonapterians and show them there’s nothing a little national pride and a heaping dose of lead (and explosives) can’t solve. Oorah!

In FIREDROP, you and your friends play as Soldiers dropped from low orbit to fight the hordes of superflea’s infesting the planet. Each mission will be unique, with its own objectives, Siphonapterian nests, and extraction point. Your job is to complete the objective and, if you can, extract with your life intact. To aid you in battle, you will have a number of clone reinforcements available upon your death as well as high impact firepower like sentries, orbital bombardments, and more.

FIREDROP is a 28-page, half-letter, black and white zine hex and dice wargame. It’s something fairly new for me, but it’s been a lot of fun to make and really fun to playtest. And yes, it is heavily inspired by Helldivers 2! I started making it while I was waiting to get into the game’s very overloaded servers to play!

FIREDROP was originally created for and released for free as part of Missives from the MeatCastle's, MCGW's free monthly newsletter, February issue (coming 2/28/24). To subscribe and get your copy FOR FREE, click here!

CREDITS

Design and Layout: Christian Sorrell
Editing: Jarrett Crader
Art: Perplexing Ruins, Thomas Novosel (via Patreon)
Publishing: MeatCastle GameWare