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

Combat Cars Before the M9A1 which was being  introduced around this time the M6 was employed by the Friesland forces. A reaction earlier failures in vehicle design, Icarus brought in a light, low vehicle. At 21 tonnes  – under half of the operational weight of it’s predecessor the M5 - the M6 carried a crew of 5: driver at front left; two ‘wing gunners’ with pintle mounted 1cm, automatic powerguns at the forward left and right positions of a rear fighting compartment and two further crew firing infantry weapons from ports in the rear or sides of the vehicle. Older M6A2s often had weapons mounts upgraded with 3cm tri- barrels, replacing the older - and significantly inferior - 1cm Heavy Barrel fitments. The fighting compartment at the rear was enclosed but had a shuttered roof section that could be split and slid forward and backwards. These ceramic and aluminium armoured roof sheets, when deployed, afforded overhead protection from shell splinters and small arms fire. Closed up, all four crew in the rear compartment could use firing ports with their individual weapons through two side ports or two more in the rear door but the vehicle lacked forward fire power unless the crew slid back the roof section and utilised the two ‘wing’ powerguns, or used them remotely from controls within the vehicle.  Although a successful vehicle, the M6 was very cramped in use if the roof panels were not slid open and this - in addition to the limited firing arcs afforded by the crew’s individual weapons - meant that the M6 usually went into combat with only three crew in the fighting compartment or – more usually – with the roof plates slid back, or even removed and stowed on the sides of the vehicle. This latter configuration offered the additional bonus of increasing armour to the flanks of the vehicle) at the expense of obscuring the side firing ports. The M6 used a shielded intake, six-fan unit and this, with the M6’s aluminium and composite plenum chamber, meant that the vehicle’s greatest defensive advantage was speed. Note that none of the M6 vehicles is fitted with an Anti-Buzzbomb ADS system.

Early Slammers and Friesland Regulars (Circa 317TW)