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

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Hammering Roche’s World

Calling Colonel Hammer... The SoAM countered by engaging Colonel Alois Hammer and his feared regiment, known as Hammer’s Slammers. Equipped as well as any unit in existence, this elite armoured force was to provide the spearpoint of a thrust deep into NBU territory and bring the war to a rapid close. Unfortunately, having mortgaged their future and that of several generations to come, SoAM were unable to provide much else in the way of supporting forces beyond their own poorly equipped and badly led militia, so the initial attack failed to get off the ground and the whole campaign degenerated into a quagmire of small skirmishes and police actions. Hammer was forced to disperse his troops into small packets in order to fend off the attentions of several other less experienced (ie cheap to hire) but tenacious merc units that kept popping up on the NBU’s side of the front line. The Slammers were winning, but only very slowly. So Colonel Hammer was not a happy man. The extended campaign had frittered away many of his seasoned troops, not to mention the wear and tear on some very expensive hover tanks... Few of his AFVs had been lost to enemy action – the enemy didn’t have much that could defeat the armour of an Icarus M2A4 blower tank – but a worrying number were stuck in repair compounds and firebases with worn out fan bearings, damaged skirts or fritzed electronics. And to cap it all, he’d heard that this cursed civil war had come to the attention of the Terran Authority, who had elected themselves as peacemakers.