CLEAR TO DROP!
THE ARIES SECTOR is a wartorn archipelago of ruined worlds and collapsing battlefronts. The Dynamic Reconnaissance and Orbital Paratroopers (DROP Troops) are critical in executing surgical strikes to hold back the teeming hordes of xenos horrors and stem the tide of insurrectionists. As bleak as the darkening galaxy seems, hope is not lost!
GET TO THE POINT
FEET FIRST INTO HELL is designed to get you into the action as quickly as possible, combining the dramatic action and tension of skirmish and roleplaying games with high customizability for a fast-shooting, accessible, and most importantly, SUCCINCT game. It's the kind of thing you can use to introduce a friend, or a kid, to wargaming, and have a hell of a time!
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The Field Manual is the core FEET FIRST INTO HELL experience. Backed on Kickstarter in February 2023, the Field Manual comes with the complete core rules, six competitive missions, two cooperative scenarios, and the mini-narrative campaign, RAIN HELL.
It's the perfect starting point for those who want to drop feet first into hell and get straight to blasting!
Cooperative Campaign
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All hell has broken loose. What was supposed to be a stealthed drop to exfil a VIP out of the ruins of Prios City on Illium IX has instead become a waking nightmare. Heavy ground fire destroyed half your descent burn vehicles in-atmo, and left the rest of your forces scattered and confused.
Regroup your squads, locate your lost gear, and fight for your lives across four interlinking co-op missions!
Cooperative Campaign
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Eight missions. Seven hours. Rescue Pyrrhos Station by fighting to secure the Damoklon Reactors, restoring the security forces, denying the hive-mind its endless supply of digital slaves, and more.
With a high degree of flexibility—and four possible endings—each playthrough of OPERATION PHOENIX is sure to play out uniquely.
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The Basic Guide is the brass tacks heart of the FEET FIRST INTO HELL experience. Backed on Kickstarter in February 2023, the Basic Guide comes with the complete core rules, four competitive missions and one cooperative mission to get your feet wet.
Best of all, the Basic Guide is pay what you want, so you can try FFIH before you buy it!
DROPPING HOT
In FFIH, players recruit "Drop Teams,” and then equip them with a wide array of weapons and versatile gear. By avoiding long, stingy army lists, FEET FIRST INTO HELL puts the customization back into players' hands. You want to run a bunch of roided out armored space goombas? You can. Want to run a bunch of cyber-shinobi? You can. Feeling like a blue space communist with robot friends? Recruit some drones. Or, maybe you like to just conscript a bunch of poor souls and charge the enemy lines psycho-style. YOU CAN. Your Drop Team is your Drop Team, and FFIH encourages you to get crazy—but the game still maintains a fair balance through thoughtful point allotment. Unless you want to ignore that rule. You do you.
Once you have your team, you deploy from orbit, dropping your forces strategically onto the board. I built a unique, easy-to-follow system that allows for great tactical options, while still being dynamic and a little chaotic--just like it should be. I love stories about orbital soldiers like the ODSTs or Space Smurfs slamming into combat from orbit. The entire game is built around the idea of strategic reinforcement drops, and I think you'll find it a hell of a fun way to keep the battle raging.
DEADLY D6 COMBAT
FFIH uses a straightforward d6 system to simulate the hectic battlefield. Players have a variety of movement options, including dynamic reactions that interact with my unique cover system that discards hits rather than requiring more math. When the dice are on the table, and the pitcher is running low, no one wants to do extra math. Lock, load, drop, roll, repeat.
NO ONE LEFT BEHIND
FFIH is intended to bring people together for FUN, not profit. After the book is published, I (L.R. Knight) freely and irrevocably for all time, and across all divergent timestreams, permit use of the FFIH Open License system, including the text and game mechanics on pages 1-3, for commercial or personal use. No royalties, licenses, or fees are required to use the FFIH system in the creation of new games, here or at any point in the future. GET SOME!
DROP TEAM SUPPORT
Over on the Lionborn Publishing YouTube channel, there are a number of new-player tutorials to help you drop into FEET FIRST INTO HELL. Check 'em out!