Category Archives: Hammer’s Slammers

The Goodies Keep On Coming

I cracked open two more new moulds today, both the hulls of 15mm vehicles. The metal turrets were in a different mould which Phil delivered at the end of last week, so after a very quick bit of resin casting … Continue reading

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Not Everything Always Goes to Plan !

Today I was supposed to be posting about more Salute releases – some merchant spaceships, to be precise. We think the masters looked lovely (see below to decide for yourselves). Sadly the mould didn’t play ball :-(. This happens sometimes … Continue reading

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Fasolini’s Company

In a previous post we mentioned Fasolini’s Company, a mercenary unit from the Hammer’s Slammers universe that features in the novel Forlorn Hope. We also showed a couple of tracked mobile gun units that are the company’s heavy fire support. … Continue reading

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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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