Category Archives: Hammer’s Slammers

Salute 2016 Releases – First Glimpse

Salute is just a scary couple of weeks away – the timing of the show is apparently partly tied to Easter, so this year is a little earlier than usual. We’re happy to take pre-orders to be picked up at … Continue reading

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Hammered by the Slammers

I had the very good fortune last weekend to spend Saturday afternoon in a game of Hammer’s Slammers:The Crucible, playing against one of the rulebook’s authors, John Treadaway. I was fielding my shiny new Alaudae Legion mercenaries against John’s New … Continue reading

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The Alaudae Legion – Ready for Battle

At the end of last year we released some unit packs and a couple of vehicles for a new Hammer’s Slammers mercenary force, the Alaudae Legion (which translates to ‘The Skylarks’). Over the last few weeks I’ve been putting together … Continue reading

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The Alaudae Legion and West Riding Yeomanry

The Alaudae Legion The Alaudae Legion – led by Colonel Cornelius Dark – are an elite Frankish unit from New Gallia. The mid to late 330s saw the implementation of the effective refit of the Alaudae Legion. Many older vehicles … Continue reading

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Painting the Stewart Regiment

John Treadaway made an excellent job of painting his Stewart forces when he added them to the Hammer’s Slammers website last year. I was lucky enough to see them close-up earlier this year in a game at Maidstone (albeit from … Continue reading

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Scotland the Brave!

In 329TW, the planetary governments of Hiroseke and Stewart, re-ignited their feud on Kalan, an iridium- mining colony they had founded together decades before hand, and over which they had already fought one bitter struggle. Japanese and Scots were again … Continue reading

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Firefly and Wolf

This is the Shaman Firefly. The medium laser in the original Shaman has been replaced by a long-barrelled 22cm discarding sabot gun, with storage for the ammunition in the extended turret bustle. The roof-mounted support weapon has given way to … Continue reading

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Slamming Maidstone

A couple of weeks ago Maidstone Wargames Society had the privilege of hosting a 15mm Hammer’s Slammers game run by John Treadaway, co-author of the rules. The game pitted my recently painted Sulewesi National Army who were fighting alongside two … Continue reading

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Blower Killer

Today’s new releases are additions to the popular 15mm PacFed range. The Angelshark was shown off late last year (we even sold a few pre-production models at Crisis and SELWG) but has been waiting for a suitable release window. The … Continue reading

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The Sulewesi National Army

The latest of our 15mm models to be co-opted into the Hammer’s Slammers background by John Treadaway are the South African wheeled vehicles. They represent the National Army of Sulewesi, a Malaysian mining colony riven by civil war. John has … Continue reading

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