It is 2680, and war rages on a galactic scale. After almost a decade on the offensive against the vile alien Scourge, the United Colonies of Mankind are battle-scarred but unbroken. Its Reconquest, a grand endeavour to reclaim its heartlands and Earth itself, hangs in the balance. A mighty new generation of utilitarian warships and vengeful soldiers rush to the frontlines, but the UCM’s alliances with other human factions are crumbling, the parasites are fighting back viciously, and a previously unknown threat has emerged.

The Bioficers—ancient, corrupted artificial intelligences—have observed mankind’s aptitude for cataclysmic violence, and it pleases them. Biology is their clay. They can vaporise it, ingest it, and shape it. Their bio-drones are woven in minutes and might be any shape that nightmares can conjure. Their ships are uniquely advanced, focused, and utterly lethal. They have no grand strategy and no goal besides revelling in war and the slow suffering of capable prey. They are a factor apart and may be the greatest threat sentient life has ever faced.

Dropzone Commander is a game of mass battle combat in the far future. Speed is key in these warzones, with forces using dropships to quickly redeploy tanks, infantry, and colossal war machines.

Seizing ground and objectives wins games, but a fierce tactical acumen is needed to act and react to your opponents’ moves. Predicting the flow of battle and positioning all manner of advanced vehicles and creatures is key to victory, to make sure that the Dropzone is yours.

This box contains everything that two players will need to start playing lightning-fast games of Dropzone Commander. The two opposing forces of UCM and Bioficers have a range of plastic miniatures to clash on your tabletop!

Each army is led by a commander in their own personal vehicle, able to take control of the battle. A 68-page rulebook provides the latest edition of the game rules as well as scenarios to get you playing.

This set includes:

• Plastic Armour & Infantry: These multi-part hard plastic miniatures come on sprues for ease of construction. With easy-to-assemble pieces, you’ll
  have your army ready in no time at all. There are enough models for two small armies, perfect for splitting with a friend!
• 68-Page Rulebook, Dice, Card Terrain, and, Quickplay Cards:
  This gorgeously presented book has the full rules for the game, accompanied with stunning artwork and background for all factions. Quickplay Cards for all units in the box help you to get playing, and have reference for the most common rules.

Contains 68 multi-part plastic miniatures, 68 page rulebook, 10 dice, and fast play cards. 

Miniatures supplied unpainted and unassembled. This kit will require cleaning and assembly, and could need some small holes filled.

In Dropzone Commander a simple exploration onto a dropsite can quickly turn into a bloody battle. A good commander must learn to think on their feet and adapt their plans for victory.

Bioficer frontline commanders are potent, vicious, and malevolent artificial intellects. They direct lesser intelligences with savage pleasure, issuing cruel orders to terrify, outplay, and annihilate their chosen playthings.

This 33-card Bioficer Faction Set must be combined with a Core Set for a 66-card deck for casual games. Alternatively, carefully choose which to include in a 45-card deck for competitive play. 

Made from high-quality playing card material, these cards are oversized at 100mm x 60mm.

In Dropzone Commander a simple exploration onto a dropsite can quickly turn into a bloody battle. A good commander must learn to think on their feet and adapt their plans for victory.

The actions of commanders have always been decisive in war. On the battlefields of the 27th century, inspired leadership, tactical dexterity, and lethal ruthlessness are just as critical. In Dropzone Commander, these are represented by Command Cards.

This 33-card Core Set can be played as-is or combined with your Faction Set for a 66-card deck for casual games. Alternatively, carefully choose which to include in a 45-card deck for competitive play. 

Made from high-quality playing card material, these cards are oversized at 100mm x 60mm.

In Dropzone Commander a simple exploration onto a dropsite can quickly turn into a bloody battle. A good commander must learn to think on their feet and adapt their plans for victory.

The PHR's viziers direct, network, and inspire their advanced forces through peerless skill and neurological enhancement. Their sublime orders ensure victory through superior technology, digital exploitation, and extreme firepower. 

This 33-card PHR Faction Set must be combined with a Core set for a 66-card deck for casual games. Alternatively, carefully choose which to include in a 45-card deck for competitive play.

Made from high-quality playing card material, these cards are oversized at 100mm x 60mm.

In Dropzone Commander a simple exploration onto a dropsite can quickly turn into a bloody battle. A good commander must learn to think on their feet and adapt their plans for victory.

Leadership is critical within the Resistance. Its character shapes, galvanizes, and inspires their force to survive and triumph. Resistance warlords leverage their battlefield knowledge, ingenuity, and grizzled experience to outfox their oppressors.

This 33-card Resistance Faction Set must be combined with a Core Set for a 66-card deck for casual games. Alternatively, carefully choose which to include in a 45-card deck for competitive play. 

Made from high-quality playing card material, these cards are oversized at 100mm x 60mm.

Its is June 6th 2680. Ten years have passed since the United Colonies of Mankind plunged the galaxy into war in a titanic effort to reconquer its lost heartlands from the hated Scourge. Much has been won with blood, but victory hangs by a thread...

The Bioficers, ancient, twisted artificial intelligences, have observed mankind's aptitude for cataclysmic violence - and it pleases them. They have no grand strategy and no goal besides revelling in war and the suffering of capable prey. They may be the greatest threat sentient life has ever faced, and they have arrived. 

Waves of ominous Bioficer dropships make planetfall through known space, and their genitor factories spawn nightmarish flesh drones woven from the reconstituted molecules of the slain. 

As this horror builds, the UCM face growing raids from the Scourge reinforcements and meddling from Shaltari warbands. And it has lost allies. The Post Human Republic is sundered by schism and under assault by a Scourge armada. Grim Kalium has turned inwards, and the Resistance looks to its own survival. The UCM must now hold its hard-won gains alone, defend the Colonies, and unleash its latest war machines to reignite its Reconquest. 

It is time to deploy, Commander.

Dropzone Commander is a game of mass battle combat in the far future. Speed is key in these warzones, with forces using dropships to quickly redeploy tanks, infantry, and colossal war machines.

Seizing ground and objectives wins games, but a fierce tactical acumen is needed to act and react to your opponents' moves. Predicting the flow of battle and positioning all manner of advanced vehicles and creatures is key to victory, to make sure that the Dropzone is yours.

Written by David J Lewis, this book contains everything you need to deploy your forces, including scenarios to play and rules. At 65 pages, this small format rulebook contains the latest version of the Dropzone rules.

In Dropzone Commander a simple exploration onto a dropsite can quickly turn into a bloody battle. A good commander must learn to think on their feet and adapt their plans for victory.

Scourge battlefield leaders rise to command through aggression, cunning, and quick thinking. Like all Scourge, they have no aversion to casualties and issue their devastating orders to outmanoeuvre, outpace, crush, and assimilate their prey. 

This 33-card Scourge Faction Set must be combined with a Core Set for a 66-card deck for casual games. Alternatively, carefully choose which to include in a 45-card deck for competitive play. 

Made from high-quality playing card material, these cards are oversized at 100mm x 60mm.

In Dropzone Commander a simple exploration onto a dropsite can quickly turn into a bloody battle. A good commander must learn to think on their feet and adapt their plans for victory.

Shaltari Warchiefs have centuries of battlefield experience. Born for war, they know countless victories and have seldom tasted defeat. They use this experience to outplay, deceive, and dispatch their foes with inspired turns of personal leadership. 

This 33-card Shaltari Faction Set must be combined with a Core Set for a 66-card deck for casual games. Alternatively, carefully choose which to include in a 45-card deck for competitive play. 

Made from high-quality playing card material, these cards are oversized at 100mm x 60mm.

In Dropzone Commander a simple exploration onto a dropsite can quickly turn into a bloody battle. A good commander must learn to think on their feet and adapt their plans for victory.

Colonial Army HQ values personal leadership, tactical acumen, and doctrinal discipline in its battlefield commanders. Their actions can bind a force together, exploit opportunities, deploy assets, and unleash the vast resources of the UCM. 

This 33-card UCM Faction Set must be combined with a Core Set for a 66-card deck for casual games. Alternatively, carefully choose which to include in a 45-card deck for competitive play. 

Made from high-quality playing card material, these cards are oversized at 100mm x 60mm.

Fauna - when nature takes back what's theirs.

The old human cities of the Tlalocan moons are overgrown and infested with terrifying megafauna and the Tank-sized carnivores that hunt them.

Made in bright pink with an opalescent finish, these dice have the FAUNA logo etched on the "6" facing, showing your monstrous side every time you roll.

This pack contains 10 six-sided dice, perfect for games of Dropzone Commander Operation Artemis.

The armies and Grand Fleet of the Post Human Republic have completed their conquest of the Tlalocan Moons, annihilating most alien Scourge forces there. The PHR chose the system as a beachhead in this galaxy-wide conflict due to its vast resources but also for its ancient connection to a new foe- the Bioficers. Many relic technologies, listening posts and more eldritch remnants of their mysterious past lurk there. It has been a primary goal to silence Bioficer beacons and study their technologies to slow their advance and perhaps, one day to stop them. 

Though all are verdant paradises, the old human cities of the Tlalocan moons are overgrown and infested with terrifying megafauna and the tank-sized carnivores that hunt them. The PHR have equipped teams of cybernetically enhanced pilots with state-of-the-art Type 9 Frontier Walkers to seek, capture, and neutralise all Bioficer technologies there while not attracting deadly predators. If the mission goes loud, they will need all of their prowess and considerable firepower to cleanse the inrushing hordes of razor-toothed monsters. 

Dropzone Commander: Operation Artemis is a game of fast combat in the far future. Speed is key as brave PHR pilots attempt to capture or destroy Bioficer beacons whilst fending off waves of mighty Megafauna.

Seize control of the battlefield by eliminating your foes with devastating attacks or breaking them down with constant waves of damage over the game's 6 rounds. Predicting your opponent's next move will be critical to victory, whilst powerful command cards could turn the battle on its head. 

This box contains everything that two players will need to start playing games of Dropzone Commander: Operation Artemis. Each box contains opposing forces of PHR and Megafauna with a variety of miniatures for both. 

As combat intensifies, the Noise and Threat go up. Many actions will increase the Noise, which will in turn increase the Threat. The higher the Threat Level, the more aggressive the fauna will be. PHR Commanders will have to choose wisely when to go loud during combat and when discretion is needed. 

A 20-page rulebook contains all the rules required to jump straight into the action and includes 5 unique scenarios. Also included are dice, noise meter, command cards, and fastplay cards to help you get stuck in quickly.

This set includes:

• Plastic PHR & Megafauna: These multi-part hard plastic miniatures come on sprues for ease of construction. With easy-to-assemble pieces, you’ll
  have your forces ready in no time at all.
• Mat & Buildings: Sturdy and easy to assemble, this box set includes 6 sturdy buildings with 3 different styles available. Also included is the 3x3 gaming mat, which quickly folds away for easy storage between games. 
• 20-Page Rulebook, Dice, Noise meter & Command Cards, and Fastplay Cards:
  Fastplay Cards for all units in the box help you to get playing, whilst both factions have unique command card decks which unlocks a variety game-altering effects. 

Contains 20 multi-part plastic miniatures, 20 page rulebook, acrylic bases, 3x3 card mat, 6 card buildings, terrain markers, noise meter, 10 dice, faction cards, and fast play cards. Instructions can be found here.

Miniatures supplied unpainted and unassembled. This kit will require cleaning and assembly, and could need some small holes filled.

All the templates you need to play DZC. Precisely laser cut in 3mm fluorescent acrylic Notched sides allow for easy template placement without removing models from flight stands.

Essentially a wide-bodied, rarer evolution of the stalwart Strikehawk tiltrotor, the Carryhawk adds additional girth and lift capacity by including a pair of huge, tail-mounted ducted fans.

The Carryhawks pair of heavy calibre rotary cannons can spit a relentless hail of depleted uranium-tipped bullets to chew through even armoured vehicles. These can be hot-swapped pre-mission for two deployable Sentinel turrets, much like its cousin the Strikehawk.

The Carryhawk’s main combat role though is the deployment of a forward command bunker. This small, armoured structure is deployed with an onboard detail of resistance veterans and comms staff. Once landed, this bunker can relay rear-echelon commands to the frontlines while the Carryhawk rains fire from above.

Contains 2 multi-part resin and 3D printed resin miniatures with parts to assemble a Carryhawk Tilt Carrier and Forward Command Bunker.

Resin miniatures supplied unpainted and unassembled. This kit will require cleaning and assembly, and could need some small holes filled. Any miniatures or scenery are shown for scale only and not included.

Since the advent of the internal combustion engine, militaries have used car-sized, fast vehicles to nimbly convey surgical strike forces, scout units, command staff, and special ops troops to flashpoints. These often fulfilled many of the roles of the cavalry of old, offering more speed, resilience, and punch than basic infantry.

One of the UCMA’s most common and cheapest armoured vehicles is the Badger. Much like the ancient and famous Humvee, this can carry around five soldiers or specialists in comparative safety while offering supplementary anti-infantry firepower in the form of a twin gatling gun. A rarer variant, the Ferret, replaces this with a target designator unit, essentially turning this small vehicle into a forward observer as well as a light transport.

Contains 4 multi-part resin miniatures with parts to assemble as either UCM Badger's or UCM Ferret's.

Resin miniatures supplied unpainted and unassembled. This kit will require cleaning and assembly, and could need some small holes filled. Any miniatures or scenery are shown for scale only and not included.

Already a favourite among beleaguered UCM ground troops, the Dominion is affectionately known as The Delete Key, God’s Nailgun, and Splatter, amongst other things. Certainly, the gargantuan Ferrum Aerospace factory can’t build these fast enough.

The Dominion Heavy Bomber is the Colonial Fleet Air Arm’s latest, devastating aircraft. Developed in response to the rising deployment of enemy behemoths, this dread angel bristles with weaponry.

Primarily, it’s cavernous bomb bays hold two Titanfall gravity munitions. These are dropped at low altitude, then just before impact the bomb’s tail explodes, driving its tungsten-tipped warhead deep inside a big target’s guts before a larger charge detonates, ripping the victim apart from within.

Additionally, four heavy calibre autocannons on its sleek nose can chew through armoured columns with ease. Next, a Saturation Missile Array can shred lighter targets spread over a wide area with airburst munitions, so cover offers no protection.

Lastly, and in a throwback to bombers of an earlier age, a tailgun guards against roving fighters and offers a sting in the tail to bring down aircraft in the wake of the Dominion’s passing.

Contains 1 multi-part resin miniature and 1 Acrylic flight stand.

Resin miniatures supplied unpainted and unassembled. This kit will require cleaning and assembly, and could need some small holes filled.

Colonial tank design doctrine calls for ultra-low-profile hulls and compact weaponry. Bulkier weapons require an alternative mount, and one such option is the ubiquitous Grizzly. A modified version of the standard Bear APC, this chassis forgoes the transport capacity for a large weapon compartment.

Typically, the Grizzly is equipped with the UM-92 heavy mortar. This flexible armament sports a drum-based auto loader, much like a giant 20th century revolver. This grants a respectable rate of fire for a siege weapon as well as a minimal crew requirement. The Grizzly’s comparatively weak armour is rendered acceptable by UM-92’s ability to lob lethal shells from behind cover.

An exciting development has been the UCM’s first fieldable, projectile plasma weapon. This has been possible through tireless years of work and an abundance of captured Scourge technology. Indeed, this new UMX-9 Plasma Mortar shares several aspects with enemy versions. Like other plasma weapons, the UMX-9 delivers furnace-like energy to its target at very finite range, since the volatile plasma is held in place around the projectile by its fast-depleting power core. Since the UCM’s first plasma weapon is bulky and low velocity, its designers utilised the Grizzly chassis.

Contains 2 resin miniatures that can be equipped with either the UMX-9 Plasma Mortar or the UM-92 Heavy Mortar.

Resin miniatures supplied unpainted and unassembled. This kit will require cleaning and assembly, and could need some small holes filled.

During recent engagements, UCM observers have reported the presence of a new Scourge heavy tank chassis with two distinct variants. Thankfully, these tanks forgo the familiar Slayer-type hull’s transport capacity, but this allows the mounting of larger weapons. Whether these are newly developed is unconfirmed, although AHQ has cited this as an example of the enemy’s capacity for innovation and rapid deployment of new assets while under the strain of invasion—a troubling prospect.

The Executioner mounts a slightly smaller version of the loathsome Bio-Mortar, a weapon previously only encountered aboard the massive Eradicator Chamelopod. This allows the Executioner to liquify the internal organs and flesh of emplaced enemy infantry from a distant, concealed position. Although it’s only been reported in combat for a short time, the Executioner is already a dreaded foe and has led to mass-desertions. Priority should be given to destroying Executioners before freedom of troop placement is entirely lost.

The Decapitator is especially unusual. Initially, observers thought this tank to be unarmed, if amazingly fast compared to other large skimmers. However, once the Decapitators closed to point-blank-range of their target, their central engine mount rolled 180 degrees to face forward. Although all speed was lost, that engine’s thrust could then be channelled into a laser-thin beam capable of slicing through virtually anything. Other heavy units, even the largest behemoths, are highly vulnerable to this new threat.

Contains 2 multi-part resin miniatures with parts to assemble as either the Executioner Heavy Tank or the Decapitator Heavy Tank.

Resin miniatures supplied unpainted and unassembled. This kit will require cleaning and assembly, and could need some small holes filled.

While not fast, the Atlas can take twice as much punishment as a heavy walker, making it best employed in take and hold style operations, or as close protection for its cargo while they conduct urban operations. Indeed one Atlas provides superior firepower and survivability compared to the pair of Junos normally employed in such roles, albeit at a higher cost.

The Atlas Bulk Personnel Walker uses the new, quadrupedal Type-11 chassis. The Type-11 is medium-heavy, highly resilient and deliverable by medium dropships. This makes it useful in a variety of roles which require more space than standard PHR walkers. The Atlas is best thought of as a walking castle. Its cavernous hold can accommodate 20 infantry in extreme safety while offering respectable firepower. Its pair of light railguns can see off most armoured threats while its twin miniguns can sweep deployment zones of enemy infantry.

Also utilising the new medium-heavy Type-11 chassis, the Lokheira forgoes the Atlas’ transport capacity for increased firepower. It retains the former’s light railguns and miniguns for excellent anti-armour and anti-infantry capability, but also mounts a twin rail-repeater. Single rail-repeaters are carried by the dreaded Phobos walker – one of the best standard anti-air units known to the UCM. A pair of these added to its other weapons makes the Lokheira weapon-rich choice of cargo for PHR generals who want the most punch from a single dropship’s transport capacity. While less flexible than smaller vehicles, a Lokheira offers superior killing power which can be maintained in full while soaking up damage.

Contains 2 multi-part resin miniatures with parts to make either the Atlas Bulk Personnel Walker or the Lokheira Bulk Walker.

Resin miniatures supplied unpainted and unassembled. This kit will require cleaning and assembly, and could need some small holes filled. Any miniatures or scenery are shown for scale only and not included.

Like other improvised Resistance technicals, the Gunbus repurposes a common, civilian unit. Buses are usually employed as transports, requiring basic modification, but sometimes they are stripped to their chassis, providing space enough to mount heavy weapons.

Too large to mount on a wagon, the pre-war AA emplacement: the G88 flak cannon fires big, air-bursting shells to deal reliable destruction to enemy aircraft. Even before the Scourge invasion, crews were quick to realise that the weapon’s large calibre and decent rate of fire made it lethal against medium armour too. Today, Resistance groups have made the G88 a low-cost, reliable, mobile threat through the simple expedient of bolting it onto a bus chassis.

More rarely, groups have discovered and repurposed a formidable piece of pre-war crowd control tech: the Sonic Deterrence Cannon. Originally, these were towed into position, usually around government buildings and unpopular corporation HQs. The weapon’s beams could be swept over a crowd of thousands, inducing headaches, nosebleeds, defecation, and vomiting. While this area effect has fringe uses militarily, most Resistance techs have modified these to project a focused beam of intense sound potent enough to cause total loss of capability, brain haemorrhage, and finally death, even through walls.

Contains 2 Gunbuses that can be assembled with either the G88 Flak Cannon or the Sonic Deterrence Cannon

Resin miniatures supplied unpainted and unassembled. This kit will require cleaning and assembly, and could need some small holes filled. Any miniatures or scenery are shown for scale only and not included.

Several times larger than their more common cousins the Warstriders, Siegestriders were dubbed for their ability to clamber over or through the tallest defences. The most well-known forms are quadruped, although more accurately they have two legs and two arms.

The Lion variant carries possibly the most unusual weapon seen on the battlefields of the 27th century: The Transmatter Beam. It actually has two functions, the first being non-offensive. It can make use of the teleportation web technology built into friendly constructs to de-materialise and re-materialize these units anywhere in line of sight, even if they are far from a gate. The second, weaponised function is the result of firing such a beam at something without tapping into teleport web technology.

The Tiger carries a pair of Disintegrators - battlefield versions of the type of armament common on Shaltari starships. These weapons transfer huge amounts of energy to a very small area in crackling, split-second bursts. This causes devastating atomic effects, releasing further energies into the target. The appearance is of an explosive detonation that leaves an atomised, gaping hole behind.

Contains 1 multi-part resin miniature with parts to assemble as either a Lion Siegestrider or Tiger Siegestrider

Resin miniatures supplied unpainted and unassembled. This kit will require cleaning and assembly, and could need some small holes filled. Any miniatures or scenery are shown for scale only and not included.

Please note that Behemoths are massive kits, and advanced modelling projects. Extra care, attention, and hobby skills will be required to assemble and paint them. Because of that, this kit it is only recommended for advanced modellers. Some parts will need heating and bending to fit perfectly straight and slight gaps might need filling.