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The Hammer's Slammers Handbook




Table of Contents

Introduction by David Drake
Extracts From The Hammers Slammers Handbook
The Mercenary Regiments
The Men Behind The Guns
Weapons Of The Late3RD Millennium
Hammers'sSlammers
Extracts From The Hammers Slammers Web Page
Slammers Artillery
Figures




Introduction by David Drake



Miniaturewargaming involves moving figurines of soldiers and vehicles across contoured terrain against
one or more opponents doing the same thing. Rules of varying complexity cover movement and combat.
Figurines (OK, toy soldiers) are molded in many scales, but for ground combat 25-millimeter--that is, a
human figure is roughly an inch high--provides a good balance between detail and awkwardly large
playing surfaces.

Miniaturewargames have a long and honorable history. The Prussian general staff used a variation (sand
table exercises) to teach tactics, and H. G. Wells developed a set of rules. (By the way, Wells' rules
leave a good deal to be desired. Battles played according to them tend to devolve into squads creeping
through alleys behind a field gun.)

InGreat Britain , miniaturewargaming is big business. Most of the gaming-related materials which one
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sees in theUS --Osprey books andWarhammer 40K, for example--are spillovers from British industry.
A Britishwargamer , Dr. JohnLambshead (in his day job he's the man you see to learn about the home life
of the marine nematode) contacted me. From him I learned that the Hammer series has a cult following
inBritain even though the books have never been well distributed there.