Gangs in DRILL UK: placement and progression

Peckham Estate, postal 9079

You get placed, not left to wander

Most servers make you hunt for a crew. Here one finds you.

Early in your first session someone will have the placement conversation with you: which gang suits you, or which job if the other side of the city is more your thing. It is a chat, not a form.

By the end of it you have

People
A postcode
A reason to log back in tomorrow

Read the rules

Peckham Estate, postal 9134

Who holds the turf

Every gang turf on the map, drawn where the server draws it and coloured by the crew that holds it. Updated every hour.

City report

The DRILL UK pause map of the city in grey, numbered streets running from the hills in the north down to the airport and the docks on the water — The city21 turfs

The north of the county on the DRILL UK pause map in grey: the coast town in the top left, a grid of streets to the east and a lakeside town on the shore at the bottom — The city21 turfs

Dashed outline: no gang holds it
Patterned: gangs whose colours look alike. Each pattern sits beside its gang in the list
Dark fill with a white edge: a gang whose colour is black

Peckham Estate, postal 9136

The city is better with backup

Alone

The city is a big place that does not know you exist.

In a gang

You have territory you recognise, people who notice when you are on, and a share in something that was here before you and grows while you play.

Players who join a crew early stay longer and have more fun on the way up.

Three DRILL UK players posing against a pale stone wall at night, one kneeling at the front in a pink and white outfit and pink helmet with two stood behind in red — Your people, day one

Two DRILL UK players dancing under pink and teal club lights wearing glowing green bangles — Be around

A masked DRILL UK player in red and black checking their phone beside a white lowrider with its bonnet up at dusk, an armed player watching the road behind — Never on your own

Three DRILL UK players in black tracksuits with purple and teal print stood around a black sports car at sunset — Week after week

Peckham Estate, postal 9133

Crews rise week by week

Crews rise by putting the work in week after week:

Activity on the streets
Moves on the map
Moves on the map
Keeping the postcode theirs

Progress shows, and the city notices.

What a name is worth

Reputation arrives in the room before an established crew does, and doors open for the ones that last.

Peckham Estate, postal 9081

How you actually get in

Recruitment happens in the city, face to face.

Be around.
Be useful.
Be someone a crew would want standing next to them.

Colours mean something here: members act together wearing their gang's clothing, so when you are in, everyone can see it.

The gang rules in full

Two DRILL UK White Roses members against a concrete wall in matching pink and black print, one in a pink vest and dungarees and one with long pink hair in a pink and black outfit — Matching colours, no questions

Peckham Estate, postal 9087

Before your first war

These are the four gang conduct rules, word for word. They are not the whole of gang life: initiation and taxing have their own sections in the rulebook and both bind gangs, and kill on sight only exists in redzones and under gang turf rules. Read all three sections.

Initiation
Gang initiation covers one block and lasts two minutes, counted from each time initiation happens. Every fresh initiation restarts the two minutes, and the fight is over once two minutes pass with none.
Colours
Only members of the same gang wearing two or more matching gang clothing items may act together.
Allies
Allied gangs may only get involved if they are present and clearly declared together before initiation starts.
After the start
Announcing allied involvement after initiation has started does not count.

Gangs run the postcode