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Star Grunt meets Slammers

Rules is rules! Jon Tuffley, owner and proprietor of Ground Zero Games;  author - of course - of many rules systems (Full Thrust, Dirtside, GCav etc) and the man behind the ever popular Star Grunt paid a visit at Slammers HQ and we played a couple of games, which was very nice! We got out three detachments of the Solace Regular Army, (led by Colonel Priamedes) defending a town attacked by a detachment of the elite New Ukrainian Army. We played a game using The Crucible and then followed it with some actions using much of the same forces using elements of Star Grunt 3 which Jon is working on and we had a debrief (and some Pizza!) and discussed concepts and tossed about ideas. The first game, that we finished, was about equal on points: about 2000 or so a side but the Solace were holed up in buildings and the Ukrainians had to advance and park outside the Police HQ to win. Despite the Ukrainians demonstrating some impressive ‘first shot first kill’ capabilities, in the end there were simply too many Solace forces and to well emplaced: despite the Solace Colonel dying in his AFV and the Ukrainians resorting to simply running over debussed Solace fighters, they were eventually stopped - literally - in their tracks by shoulder launched ATGWs fired down through the top decks of the bigger AFVs and mass powergun fire against the lighter APCs and infantry. A good - and productive - session for both of us! John Treadaway

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