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

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Thunderbolts Assemble

Background The Thunderbolt Division was formed in 326TW from the remnants of the losing half of a civil war. For seven years, Antargra was locked into an internal struggle and - after the final destructive siege of the capital Triere - the remains of of Antargra's standing army of the northern forces finally admitted defeat. Although it was a conditional surrender, one of the agreed prerequisites was the disbanding of the northern Antargran army. Many of the men and women under arms did lay their equipment aside but one division - the 42nd or 'Thunderbolts' - could not bring themselves to do so. As a compromise, they agreed, as a unit, to ship off planet but, as part of the treaties that their commanders signed, they did so with little equipment and almost none of their vehicles. Their commander at the time, General Fredrick, had plans to set up the Thunderbolts as a mercenary company and - after some negotiation - his ambitions were realised.  In 329 General Fredrick, along with a number of officers and men from the Thunderbolt Division, was killed when caught in an uprising on Helmstadt and his replacement, Colonel Ernst Chirho, took a more aggressive stance towards the promotion of the outfit of which he had inherited command. Chirho had personally used a number of wheeled and half-tracked command vehicles in his southern desert campaign and was determined to shape the Thunderbolt Division into a light, flexible attack force... See more here.

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