Category Archives: Hammer’s Slammers
Ben Mehdi’s Legion
The mercenary unit now known as Ben Mehdi’s Legion has had an interesting past. Naming your unit for its commander is always asking for trouble, as two name changes will testify. Initially known as Baffin’s Legion, the death of Colonel … Continue reading
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Waldheim Dragoons in 6mm
The Waldheim Dragoons, an armoured mercenary regiment, use the missile armed A2 variant of the Icarus M2 blower tank – the same vehicle that equips the Slammers regiment, but with different armament. These are supported by the lighter M56 Daedalus … Continue reading
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No Show
Some more show news today; SELWG, a long standing event held in the Crystal Palace Sports Centre, has been cancelled, for this year at any rate. They’ve basically reached the end of their tether with regard to the venue – … Continue reading
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Shot from Both Sides
We recently ran a large Crucible game at Maidstone Wargames Society involving eight players. Six took command of a detachment of Hammer’s Slammers, a mixture of mid-period and late uparmoured vehicles, while John Treadaway and I took the defence with … Continue reading
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Looking Ahead #8
More 6mm Hammer’s Slammers today – this is the Waldheim Dragoon’s Daedalus tank which appeared in 15mm earlier this year. It’s accompanied by an air-defence version with four tri-barrel powerguns – we’ve also made the laser/missile version in 6mm as … Continue reading
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Looking Ahead #7
Today’s preview shows scaled down versions of some of the recent early Slammer’s vehicles – in this case, the M2A1 and M2A3 versions of the Icarus blower tank with the smaller turret and 20cm powergun and heavy laser respectively. The … Continue reading
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Looking Ahead #4
Some 6mm vehicles this time. These are tiny versions of the Guardforce O’Higgins Fragarach light tank, already out in 15mm. already seen You’ve the 6mm versions of the Kopis, but here it is again with the Astrapi.
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Early Slammers
The Slammers originated as the ‘Auxiliary Regiment’, part of the Friesland regular forces; however, around 317TW Colonel Hammer forcibly went rogue and broke away to make his unit into an independent mercenary regiment. You can read more about the early … Continue reading
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Kopis Kollection
Now that our resin casting abilities are fully restored, we can crack on with our backlog of delayed new releases. Today we have a new 15mm vehicle for the Ander’s Legion mercenary unit, part of the Hammer’s Slammers range. The … Continue reading
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Guardforce O’Higgins
Guardforce O’Higgins are, as their name might suggest, a mercenary unit that specialises in security and enforcement assignments. Most of the Regiment-sized formation is made up of mechanised units trained in police actions or defensive scenarios. Because they are generally … Continue reading
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