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Introduction

Welcome to Drop Zone: Chocks Away, the thrilling board game where courageous pilots vie for supremacy in the skies over a remote jungle. Ready to become a legend? Strategise your moves, develop your airbase, and outmanoeuvre your rivals to dominate the skies!

What is Drop Zone: Chocks Away?

Drop Zone: Chocks Away is a midweight worker placement board game of aerial strategy and daring contracts with elements of card drafting and dice rolling. Each turn, you'll expand your airbase, execute tactical manoeuvres, and engage in high-stakes supply drops to outshine your rivals and earn your place in history. Drop Zone is the perfect addition to any game night for players who enjoy worker placement style eurogames with an element of chance.

Players: 2-4
Playing Time: 60-90 minutes
Ages: 12+

Why Back This Game?

Drop Zone: Chocks Away is your ticket to an adrenaline-pumping aerial adventure without the airport queues or carbon footprint.

Unique Theme: Rooted in real-life aerial relief contracts, the game offers an authentic and engaging experience.

Strategic Depth: A multitude of tactical choices and dynamic contracts ensure high replayability and deep strategy.

High-Quality Components: From vibrant artwork to high-quality game pieces, every component is crafted to enhance your gaming experience.

Local Production: Proudly produced in the UK, guaranteeing premium quality and supporting local industries.

Story and Background

In an isolated jungle, remote communities depend on fearless pilots for survival supplies. Your mission? Navigate perilous flight paths, endure the elements, and go down in the history books as a legendary pilot. Drop Zone: Chocks Away combines strategic depth with heart-pounding excitement, inspired by real-world aerial relief efforts.

Gameplay

Experience a dynamic two-phase gameplay that keeps every turn exciting:

Ground Phase: Collect supplies, plan upgrades, and deploy tactical cards.

Air Phase: Navigate contracts, perform supply drops, and manage ever-changing wind conditions.

Detailed Gameplay

Strategise, upgrade, and outplay your rivals with a variety of tactical choices:

Upgrades: Enhance your airbase by improving supply gathering, managing more planes, or tweaking flight controls to adjust wind speed or accuracy parameters.

Supply Cards: Use Supply Cards to gain advantages; making contracts easier, quicker or more rewarding. Or to throw off competitors by stealing cargo, recalling their planes from missions, or decreasing the value of their contracts.

Contracts: Engage in Rookie, Hot Shot, and Legend contracts, each with unique challenges. Completing contracts unlocks new ones, offering over 20 possible combinations for ever-changing missions.

Dice Rolling: Using dice to determine Wind Speed and Accuracy to see if you successfully drop the supplies on target and earn reputation.

Each turn you must strategically upgrade your airbase, carefully planning your next flight depending on the contracts available. You balance contract length, difficulty and reputational reward, whilst using your Supply Cards to make adjustments to the missions - making them more rewarding, quicker, easier, or, if you want to disrupt your fellow aviators, more challenging!

Then you fly, move your planes along their flightpaths and get ever closer to the moment you roll for the supply drop! If you are successful you gain the contract reputation and are one step closer to victory!

End Game

Claim victory through two paths:

Be the first to reach 30 reputation.

Complete the Legendary contract first.

The end game is particularly electrifying, with players making decisions that can either cement their victory or inadvertently aid a rival's ascent due to the effects of supply cards.

Meet the Creator

Hi, I'm Joe, a dedicated game enthusiast and first-time designer from the North of England. With many years of passionate gaming under my belt, I've poured my heart and soul into creating Drop Zone: Chocks Away. This is my first crowdfunder project, and I'm thrilled to bring this unique and exhilarating game to life with your support. My deep love for board games drives me to deliver a high-quality, exciting adventure that you'll love as much as I do.

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Let's soar to new heights together. Chocks away!