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Drop Ship

Free weekly squad battler

Send four into a run that gets harder every round and see how far they get. Nobody survives forever, so the only question is how deep you went and whether it was deeper than everyone else this week. The board wipes every week, which means the player who has been here for years and the player who started this morning are both chasing the same number.

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Drop Ship runs on a free Skulliance account, so your soldiers, your squads and your place on the board stay yours. Signing in takes a Discord account and about ten seconds.

Free to play Free account No download Weekly reset Squads build themselves Mobile & desktop

Every one of these is somebody's soldier

Drop Ship does not draw its own characters. It reads the NFTs people already hold and turns each one into a soldier, carrying the armor and gear its art says it has. These are real ones, pulled straight from the barracks.

Art by @ohh_meed · the collection is on wayup

ANGEL #03
BANDIT #04
BOSS #02
CANON #01
DEATH #15
DELAY #16
DELTA #14
DIEGO #13
FEVER #07
HAGAR #08
LAZLO #06
MANIC #05
MEDIC #11
NOMAD #12
SAINT #10
SCRIP #09
BANDIT #03
BOSS #04
CANON #02
DEATH #01
DELAY #15
DELTA #16
DIEGO #14
FEVER #13
HAGAR #07
LAZLO #08
MANIC #06
MEDIC #05
NOMAD #11
SAINT #12
SCRIP #10
TRUST #09
BOSS #03
CANON #04
DEATH #02
DELAY #01
DELTA #15
DIEGO #16
FEVER #14
HAGAR #13

How a run works

You field a squad of four. Each round the run rolls against your squad's armor, and when it rolls badly somebody dies. Get far enough and the round number is your score for the week.

Armor Heavy Medium Light Base
Gear Medkit Melee Demolition or none

Armor sets the odds

The best armor in the squad sets the floor and every lower tier adds on top, so a mixed squad of four beats four of the same thing.

One of each item fires

A Medkit is one extra life however many you send. A second is a duplicate and does nothing, which is why the fourth soldier is often better off carrying none.

Your squads build themselves

Open the game and what you hold is already arranged into the best squads it can make. Nothing to name, nothing to save, nothing to take apart.

The board resets weekly

Every week is a fresh ladder with its own prizes, so a bad week costs you nothing and a good one counts for everything.

Four soldiers, free, waiting for you

You do not need to own anything to take a real run. Every Drop Ship player is handed these four, and they are not filler: between them they carry all four armor tiers and three gear types, which is one complete squad. Sektr carrying nothing is deliberate, because there are three gear types and four soldiers.

Hagar
Hagar Heavy Melee

The one who wades in.

Delay
Delay Medium Demolition

A delay is a demolition fuse.

Blood Bag
Blood Bag Light Medkit

The medic, and the obvious one.

Sektr
Sektr Base · no gear

Carries nothing, and that is the point.

The Armory

SCRIP earned from runs buys gear, and gear changes the odds the run rolls against. Weapons, armor and equipment are all bought the same way and all fire once per squad. What you own sits in your inventory until you send it out with a squad.

Weapons

Tactical Katana Sniper Rifle Machine Gun Rocket Launcher Flamethrower Grenade

Armor

Ballistic Shield Exo Suit Mech Suit Quantum Stealth

Equipment

Radar Radio Jet Pack Night Vision Smoke Bomb Drop Box

Or wager it on somebody

The weekly board is not the only thing to play for. Put up a SCRIP wager, and anyone with the balance to match it can take the battle. You both make a run, and whoever got deeper takes both stakes. A tie gives everyone their SCRIP back.

It is the same run either way, so a battle costs you nothing but the wager, and there is no queue to wait in: open battles sit on the board until somebody accepts one.

Create a battle Name your wager Wait for a taker Both make a run Deeper run takes both

What the game keeps on you

Every run feeds a record: how many you have played, what you average, your best, the SCRIP you have banked and the XP that moves you up a level.

Games played Average score Top score Level XP Progress Rank SCRIP

Ranks, by soldiers held

Private1 Specialist3 Corporal5 Sergeant8 Staff Sergeant12 Sergeant First Class17 Master Sergeant23 First Sergeant30 Sergeant Major40 Command Sergeant Major55

How far did you get

The run has landmarks before it has a score. Reach them and they stay on your record, along with the rounds you survived and the SCRIP you earned.

Stormed the Beach Climbed the Hill Entered the Bunker Survived 20 Survived 30 Survived 40 Survived 50 SCRIP earned Won an NFT

Five games, one engine

Each keeps its own board, its own squad and its own prizes, and reads its own collection for what your soldiers are wearing. Switching between them is one press inside the game.

Drop Ship
Dread City
Filthy Mermaid
DHC2 Fighters
Oculus Lounge

Questions

Do I need an account?

Yes, a free Skulliance one, and you sign in with Discord. Unlike our browser games Drop Ship is not playable as a guest: it has to know whose soldiers are whose, whose SCRIP is whose and who is on the board this week.

Is it free?

Yes, and you do not need to own anything. The four soldiers above are waiting in your Drop Ship barracks and they make one complete squad. Oculus Lounge is the one theme that is not open to everybody.

How long is a run?

A couple of minutes. Pick a squad, deploy, and watch it play out round by round. The round you reach is your score for the week.

Do I have to manage squads?

No. They are generated from what you hold and rebuilt whenever your collection changes. Nothing to name, save or take apart.

What happens to a soldier that dies?

Nothing permanent. Death is a timeout: they can be resurrected after a short wait, and your NFT is never at risk. Weapons degrade over time anyway.

Can I play against someone?

Yes. Put up a SCRIP wager and anyone who can match it may accept. You both make a run and the deeper one takes both stakes; a tie returns them.

What are the five games?

Drop Ship, Dread City, Filthy Mermaid, DHC2 Fighters and Oculus Lounge. One engine, but each keeps its own board, squad, art and prizes.

Bring your own

Drop Ship NFTs you hold become soldiers alongside the free four, carrying the armor and gear their art says they have. In DHC2 Fighters you can go further: assemble a Fighter out of traits earned anywhere on the platform and it drops straight into your barracks as a soldier, scored on its own traits alongside the minted collection. Assembling costs nothing, so that theme is open to anyone who builds.

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