"Free Hammer's Slammers play aids" Topic

Following feedback from players, we've decided to pilot a slightly different approach to the standard system which uses individual play cards for different vehicles and infantry units.

Called Big Detachment Cards, the idea is that – rather than small cards for each Tactical Unit type which – on big games – can lead to as many as six or seven small double sided cards for a force, the idea was to put all of this unit information on one large sheet.

Here are some examples as pictures:

But the proper printable pdf files can be downloaded from this page: link Needless to say, they are free.

In addition to acting as a replacement for the TU cards, the sheets incorporate the Leadership Cards (still seperately available as a free download) so that's another separate thing you don't need on the table, and they themselves also show Elite leaders and their skills, where they are available.

Lastly – and as can be seen from the illustrations above – the Big Detachment Cards cull rule book information from two separate areas and present them all together in one place: Detachment Arrangement – how your forces are organised, plus Points Costs. These last two areas also contain the very latest information and updates and it should help players minimise the digging around in their rule books.

So far we've done these sheets for a large portion of the most popular 15mm scale forces – about half of them – but, depending on feedback – we can do the rest and also try to expand the idea into different scales.

Please tell me what you think: hopefully they will be useful!

One final note is that – as you might expect, try and get them on one sheet as I did, the Slammers themselves are spread over two sheets (as the ‘heroes' of the books, there are just a lot of options!) and the Zaporoskie had to have two sheets as well!

John Treadaway
hammers-slammers.com

6 & 28/25mm please John!

Thank you

Agent Smith

Thankyou Agent Smith.

I shall probably try and finish the 15mm first but may start the 6mm and 28mm soon. As you can appreciate there's a fair degree of quite manual work involved so – if there's a "pecking order" for forces in the other scales (other than the Slammers themselves as first and foremost!) – or indeed if there are any favourites amongst the 15mm I've missed – please feel free to chip ideas in.

John T

Wow! Those are very nice and much more handy than the smaller cards. Thanks a bunch!

Hi John

Nice to see them finished ;)

Cheers Matt

Thanks Matt – some of their development was based on the larg sheets I'd seen you put together for your games.

Anyway, I've got lot's to do though!

John T

Agent Smith (and others)

I have now put just three sheets – both Slammers and the FDF – in both 28mm and 6mm up on the site, so that players in scales other than 15mm can give it a go and give me some feedback.

John T

Cheers John,

I will have a look see

Thanks

Agent Smith

John,

These are nice. I like single refernce sheets like these better than cards. I will be printing them out for sure.

V/r, Jimmy

Thanks LostPict

feedback seems pretty positive so I'm going to persevere and get them all done asap.

John T

Hi John

Thanks for some of the credit but your sheets are far prettier than mine :)

Keep it up and hope to see you at Salute :)

Cheers Matt

Thanks Matt – I'll have the rest of them up in both other scales, plus a few more forces by the end of today.

At least that's my plan!

John T

PS – Yep – see you at Salute. SIG!

All scales (ie sizes) up on on the site now: 6mm, 15mm and 28mm, plus 4 more forces (including stuff from the web and supplement 2).

Also, I put them in Alphabetical order

I'll do the rest as soon as I can. Meanwhile, back to Captain Scarlet…

John T

Very Nice JT !!!!!!!

Working my way through the list of mercenaries and army types. I've added 7 more forces in all three 'scales'. Sincanmo Federation, Hindi Army, Han Black Banner Brigade, Solace regular Army, Solace freedom Fighter Militia, Ander's Legion and the West Riding Yeomanry.

link

John Treadaway

Still working my way throught the list. I've added 6 more forces in all three 'scales'. The Firelords, Solace Gendarmes, Sons of Magala, Texian Light Airborn, Wolverines and United Defence Batteries. Also the Dvision Legere has been revised.

link

John Treadaway

Thanks for doing these.

No problems and thanks Caesar.

I will try and do the rest over the next few weeks. One of the reasons that I wanted to do them in all scales as – apart from the obvious point atht people are using the game in all three scales – I know of some who play big games in 15mm (Commstar Matt's group for one) and sometimes use the 28mm stats for more actual movement on the table.

John T

That I do indeed John :)

12' x 6' table with 15mm Vehicles and Infantry gives you a really good flowing game but use the normal 15mm stats when at home on a 6' x 4' and all is good :)

link

spacecommand.co.uk/index.htm

Cheers Matt

Thanks for these John, the new batch had some I was looking for, and I just finished Paying the Piper over the weekend, so know who some of the others are now!

Chris

Thanks Chris and Matt.

If you have any requests for which ones I do next on the list please say (either here or via email [from the Slammers website]).

And Paying the Piper is a great story I think Chris!

John T

The entire range of Big Detachment Sheets for everything in The Crucible rule book, plus those that are available in Supplements 1, 2 and 3, plus the couple of detachments only availableon the web site are now all available in all three 'scales' on the Slammers website.

John Treadaway
link

John T,

The Maryland used these last night – made the game flow quicker. Thanks for the 28mm sheets.

Jimmy

Thanks Jimmy: that's useful feedback – exactly what I meeded

John T

Here are some pics: link

Jimmy

That looks to be a sweet game Jimmy: excellent pics and a nice layout (as ever).

I'd love to stick the pics up on the Slammer's site

John T

We did a Multi-Player game (8 handed including a newbie) last night at the Warlords using the Big Detachment Sheets: they generally went down very well:

link

John Treadaway

Looks like a great game John :)

Glad the sheets worked well :)

Cheers Matt