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About four months ago I put on a game of Hammer’s Slammers:The Crucible for Maidstone Wargames Society’s Open Day<\/a>. At this distance the details are a little hazy now, but to be honest I don’t want to recall them too closely as I was handed my head on a plate by my opponent Dave Sime, who had never even played the rules before ! Although in my defence he was using the Slammers regiment, against whom it’s always hard to win (or, as I discovered, hard to even knock out one of their tanks !).<\/p>\n

The game saw a large Slammers contingent (8 blower tanks, 8 combat cars, eight jeeps) taking on a combined Stewart Legion and Terran Authority Star Marine force which were defending a small communications base. Very early on I managed to knock out a blower (with, I think, a TAS Cougar grav tank) – this proved to be the high spot of my day. My Stewart power armour did tear some holes in the HS infantry for a while, and a bunch of Firefly combat drones caused consternation but no real casualties apart from a jeep, but that was about it. Several of Dave’s blower tanks had armament or mobility hits but I was just short of knocking them out each time and they’d soon be repaired and back on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

So, without too much more dwelling on my comprehensive defeat, here are some photos …<\/p>\n

(Slammers vehicles by Ainsty Castings<\/a>, infantry and skimmers by GZG<\/a>. TAS and Stewart vehicles and power armour by Brigade Models<\/a>, TAS infantry and grav bikes again by GZG<\/a>, Stewart infantry from Armies Army<\/a>. Buildings and civilian vehicles by Brigade Models<\/a>).<\/p>\n