{"id":2528,"date":"2017-07-26T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2018-01-01T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T17:32:59","slug":"dropzone-2-0-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"Dropzone 2.0 Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Hawk Wargames capped off a week of image teases with a major announcement for their flagship game, Dropzone Commander:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2529\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dropzone-2e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2529\" class=\"wp-image-2529\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dropzone-2e-600x811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dropzone-2e-600x811.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dropzone-2e-198x268.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dropzone-2e-296x400.jpg 296w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/dropzone-2e.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image from Hawk Wargames<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The game is now five years old and the publisher\/designer felt like that was long enough to gain feedback and refine the system&#8217;s clunkier rules.\u00a0 Dave Lewis from Hawk Wargames sat down for an interview from the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beastsofwar.com\/dropzone-commander\/secound-edition-announced\/\">Beasts of War<\/a> and it looks like several welcome changes are coming:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Renewed emphasis on using Dropships<\/li>\n<li>Dropships disassociated with Battlegroups, lessening their restrictions.<\/li>\n<li>Revamp of how Fast Movers operate<\/li>\n<li>Streamlining force building and making it less restrictive<\/li>\n<li>Updating Command Cards and allowing for customization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a bit more in that video link and none of it is fully vetted but Hawk is looking to release the new ruleset in time for the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Over on Facebook, Hawk did confirm that the two supplement rulebooks, Reconquest Phase 1 and 2 are not getting updated but rather, an errata sheet will be provided.\u00a0 Dave said in the interview the stat lines for units will largely go unchanged but we&#8217;ll see how that plays out.\u00a0 My faction is the Resistance and all of their content is in the Reconquest books so not updating them is an interesting decision.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m pretty excited and will definitely be hanging around the Hawk booth at Gen Con for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Hawk Wargames capped off a week of image teases with a major announcement for their flagship game, Dropzone Commander:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,2],"tags":[485,68,32,233],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dropzone-commander","category-general","tag-beasts-of-war","tag-dropzone-commander","tag-gen-con","tag-hawk-wargames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}