THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE HAMMER’S SLAMMERS THE CRUCIBLE RULES SYSTEM HANDBOOK

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The Bridge at Kronstadt

All photos by John Treadaway & Henry Hyde Click thumbnail to enlarge

Our Game/cont The Slammers had lost more than half of one of their detachments: the one Henry was personally leading which was the one with the two remaining blower tanks. Sadly for Henry they failed their morale test. His two tanks (and by definition his commanding officer Major Hyde) left the bridge, making a rush back east for their off table HQ. They gave orders in the next turn for his 2IC – Captain Asquith – to blow that bridge. They could still win the scenario! After that withdrawal by the Slammers commanding officer, in (what turned out to be) the last turn, Colonel Clark drove his personal vehicle across the bridge: he needed just one more turn to get to the far bank and win. However, as he started to descend the far slope of the bridge, he was met by a simple hover jeep crew who, driving from the bushes at the side of the road, machine gunned the vehicle into oblivion. Behind him, Captain Asquith powered his combat car across the bridge: he could still get back and give the order to detonate with the LPs that remained in Henry’s ‘pot’. The scenarios was going to be right up to the wire! With his last order, as he cleared the bridge, Henry told Captain Asquith to give an order to blow the damn thing to smithereens and all he needed for victory was to not bowl a 1 on a d3: a 3 would blow the bridge, which would be great, but even a 2 would be another part detonation which would still be enough to drop the structure into the river and win! Henry bowled his dice and... the bridge stayed up. We shook hands: it was on a knife edge – literally one last bowl of the dice – but it did not go Major Hyde’s way.