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

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Some background The campaign on Roche’s World had been a long, drawn out affair. It initially started as a minor internal scuffle over mining rights between the Sons of All Mankind, a grouping of colonists mainly of African extraction (the name was a reference to the origin of modern man in the African continent) and the New Baltic Union, a colony whose ancestors arrived on the same ship from Northern Europe several decades later. Like all decent civil wars, it spread unchecked to encompass agricultural and fishing rights, access to the planet’s only decent starport and, finally – the main cause of most of humanity’s more irrational wars – religion. Both sides rapidly exhausted their own modest security forces and to prolong the agony started hiring mercs. The NBU pinned their hopes on two experienced armoured battlegroups; the more senior (ie better paid and expected to handle the bulk of the heavy lifting) were the Zaporiskiye Brigade with their preponderance of modern main battle tanks. The other was the recently reorganised Anders’ Legion, a unit which had endured its share of ups and downs (including the death of the original Colonel Anders in suspicious circumstances). Anders’ son Jens, a tank platoon commander at the time of his father’s demise, inherited the family business, gave himself a promotion and restored the Legion’s status and finances. He oversaw a re-equipment program that introduced the Rapier heavy tank to the Legion’s inventory as well as upgrading the infantry’s half-tracks.

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Hammering Roche’s World