After both you and your opponent drop 8 pieces on the first rank it plays like most other chess variants.
Well, almost, because Drop Chess knows 20 different piece types, including 5 from ordinary chess. A Drop Chess Pawn is somewhat different from the usual pawn though.

The pieces one can use (drop) is determined by the Drop Chess variant you choose to play. For example, when you play a 'Flag'-side (like Black in the diagram below) you have 1 Flag (d8), 1 Queen (f8), 2 Archbishops (b8,g8), 2 Topguards (d5,g7), 1 Tower (e8) and 1 Rook (a8) to be dropped initially on the first rank. There's no constraint regarding the position where a piece can be dropped, so there are a lot of possible set-ups.

The object of the game is to capture the opponent's King, Flag, Ferz-King or Slider (depending on the variant), or to stalemate your opponent.
Obviously, this is somewhat different from ordinary chess too.

To find out how all the pieces move, pick the Pawn Fight variant, clear the board, right click to pick a piece and look at its properties.

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