{"id":15036,"date":"2024-07-24T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=15036"},"modified":"2024-07-22T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:40:42","slug":"slamming-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/slamming-sheffield\/","title":{"rendered":"Slamming Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/slamming-sheffield\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>A couple of weeks ago we attended the Joy of Six show at Sheffield Hallam University. And so did John Treadaway, who put on a Hammer&#8217;s Slammers game (using the desert terrain that Tony built and that <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2022\/08\/20\/populating-the-desert\/\">featured<\/a> on the Maidstone Wargames Society blog a while back).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15041\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/slamming-sheffield\/attachment\/3862\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3862.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,586\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John has written up the game on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hammers-slammers.com\/jos_1.htm\">Hammer&#8217;s Slammers website<\/a> &#8211; we&#8217;ve also nicked a few photos to whet your appetites.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/slamming-sheffield\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15036 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/slamming-sheffield\/attachment\/3867\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3867-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"15038\" 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And so did John Treadaway, who put on a Hammer&#8217;s Slammers game (using the desert terrain that Tony built and that featured on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/slamming-sheffield\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6mm-sf","category-hammers-slammers"],"views":1484,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3862.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-3Uw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7165,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/11\/small-scale-slammers-action\/","url_meta":{"origin":15036,"position":0},"title":"Small-Scale Slammers Action","author":"Tony","date":"November 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hammer's Slammers:The Crucible author (and newly-appointed Miniature Wargames editor) John Treadaway recently visited our club, Maidstone Wargames Society, again for another Slammers game - this time in 6mm. 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