THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE HAMMER’S SLAMMERS
THE CRUCIBLE RULES SYSTEM HANDBOOK
Three of a kind: the conflict on Plattner's world
I ran three games back to back for a 'mixed ability' group of players: one who had no experience of the
system or even the background and three others who had between 'some' and 'lots' of experience.
Game 1: Capture the Solace Leaders
I started off with a scenario I had run several times before with
mixed results (by which I mean different teams 'won'): It was
the Piper at the Gates scenario.
The Solace forces - as per the previous encounters - had their
cultural and military leaders holed up in a town and the
Slammers needed to muscle in and capture her. Previously I'd
had a convincing Slammers win (Henry Hyde carefully avoided
losing too many combat cars to IEDs).
The second time I tried it, there was a Solace win: Roger Dixon
initially did well but lost his two support Hogs early on to
mishaps (just stuff like blowing up a truck ful of explosives
next to him as he drove past...) and - when lining up his cars
in the town against their target building - they succumbed to
hidden Calliope fire and rooftop attack by buzzbombs and
squad support weapons).
