New Slammers Stuff

[John Treadaway]

I said I’d publish material here when I did anything new.

Tony Francis of Brigade has started releasing Slammers specific units, beginning with the Stewart Regiment

On that basis I’ve added a link to some of the stonking shots Tony sent me of his painted Stewart Regiment in action against their natural foes, the Hiroseki Army

And splendid they are too – there’s also a link on that page to Tony’s very informative tutorial on painting your force.

While I was at it, I noticed a small mistake on the play sheet for the Stewarts versus the description in the text on this page which was carried on to the general weapon sheets like this one (for the 15mm)

So that’s been fixed: Stewart Regiment

The changes on the sheet are that the heavier Anti-Tank round for the grenade launcher – as it said in the original text – has a much flatter arc than regular grenade rounds and hits a vehicle in it’s side, front and rear armour rather than the top armour and therefore is affected by the Anti-buzzbomb ADS system (despite what it said on the weapons sheet…).

Also, the regiment gets the option of a sniper to help out with – amongst other things – spotting for that heavy mortar.

So the weapon sheets are at version 5.3 and the Stewart Regiment Detachment Sheet is Revision 4 22/08/15.

Hope that’s useful!

John T

John Treadaway

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"They don't have to like us, snake, they just have t' make the payment schedule" Lt Cooter - Hammer's Slammers

[Angel Barracks]

That is a nice road, felt?

My money is on the big fella.

Also, thanks for sharing!

https://cromsanvil.co.uk/

[John Treadaway]

The photos – and the (I too guess felt) roads – are all Tony’s. In the punch up debate, the Sohei in the foreground is a big beast with missiles as well. The standard main laser weapon doesn’t have the penetration (4/5) as the Stewart’ Apollo DS weapon (2/7) but does get two shots and there is always the secondary missile launcher: quite light but they’ll go in through the roof. There is a Tank Destroyer variant of the Sohei, mind you, with the same Discarding Sabot weapon so it’s as broad as it is long!

Yeah, I know: way to much info…

John Treadaway

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"They don't have to like us, snake, they just have t' make the payment schedule" Lt Cooter - Hammer's Slammers

[Rod Robertson]

John:

Very cool photos and such lovely miniatures. I can’t afford to get into another project at the moment but if I had the wherewithal to do so, this would be very attractive. Thanks for posting this and I wish you good fortune in your futuristic games. David Drake would be impressed, I’m sure.

Cheers and good gaming.

Rod Robertson.

[Lagartija Mike]

So, the prescient Mr. Drake forsees a future where “Cooter” is a common name and warproles still deploy grenades?

#stardust

[John Treadaway]

Thanks Rod – Dave did indeed approve the whole project.

Lagartija Mike – as elsewhere – you are now ignored

John Treadaway

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"They don't have to like us, snake, they just have t' make the payment schedule" Lt Cooter - Hammer's Slammers

[Lagartija Mike]

John, please, relax. You don’t want to dislodge your haloperidol stent again. You remember how rough the orderlies were last time, when you woke up screaming from your recurrent nightmare of picadors bringing down your snorting burly female as she huffed a family bucket on the curb outside KFC?

I’m merely suggesting that Drake retails his milporn to a clinically depressed market share who confuse cynicism for reality and have low threshold for new concepts.

[Mike]

Stop with the insults.

[Lagartija Mike]

Mike, my initial comment was just that. A comment.

[John Treadaway]

Mr Mike the Editor – I take it the ‘gentleman’ known (this week) as “Lagartija Mike” said something else on here? Fantastic: your ignore facility is top notch as I was wonderfully unaware of it! (and will continue in blissful ignorance!)

Always worth watching and listening to, the good Professor has something to say on this subject

John T

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"They don't have to like us, snake, they just have t' make the payment schedule" Lt Cooter - Hammer's Slammers

[Mike]

Back to the subject in hand please, and you all play nice, I have My Little Pony rules to write…

[John Treadaway]

Agreed entirely Mike. Nothing but wargaming from me.

John Treadaway

www.hammers-slammers.com
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"They don't have to like us, snake, they just have t' make the payment schedule" Lt Cooter - Hammer's Slammers

[Lagartija Mike]

I think the point I was trying to make was that Drake’s work is basically unimaginative. It’s Viet-era Modern with a little added chrome and some name swaps. Which is tragic ’cause if your looking for the face of future wars (as opposed to someone’s Ho Chi Minh Blues repackaged for lazy solipsists) it’s out there. I can only recommend M. John Harrison’s LIGHT trilogy where he applies a solid grounding in current physics and biology toward milspec. Living ships, the brains of Faustian volunteers forever wedded to bespoke weapon systems; fierce battles taking place in simultaneous fugue in the confines of less than a second; military gene tailoring making simple flesh more dangerous than all the usual power suit and mech bill of fare.

 

[irishserb]

John,

I always look forward to and appreciate your slammers posts.

Many thanks for sharing the pix and info.

[Angel Barracks]

irishserb wrote:

I always look forward to and appreciate your slammers posts.

Me too, were they 6mm they would be even better!

😉

https://cromsanvil.co.uk/

[John Treadaway]

Thanks chaps. You know I only have a few Slammers in 6mm, Angel?

Look – there’s a shot of me playing with them (reminds me: must get back to the gym. And get my hair cut)…

Sadly, I have loads (and loads…) in 28mm too…

Trouble is that – locally – unless I want to just (ahem!) play with myself (and despite the fact that the rules cover all three scales), I can’t go big or small, I have to aim in the middle.

So 1/100th it is, for me at the moment. Like I’ve said, using proxies I did do a lot of the rules testing in 1/300th: it’s just so easy to transport and set up, but…

John T

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"They don't have to like us, snake, they just have t' make the payment schedule" Lt Cooter - Hammer's Slammers

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