I just printed out the rules and hope to test 'em out soon. Figured I'd just post a 'hello' message - it's good to see some familiar names here, too :) I do...
Hello there Geo My experience with Slammer has shown in general that can be true. A platoon of green, poorly lead conscripts will generally disintergrate and...
Geo, Welcome to the Slammer group, and thanks for posting your Deathworld article. You have a lot of good ideas for a fun game there. Anyone, feel free to post...
That was something I've always noticed about wargames - a lot more people/bots/things seem to die than in real fights (kinda like my old Boot Hill campaign!)....
I played my first game of Slammer last night. It was a simple set- up, with the board (actually 2 sheets of posterboard, one green and one black) set up as a...
Geo, thanks for the game report. I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Did the game turn out the way you expected it to? Have you played that scenario with other rules,...
Read the story before. Interesting scenario. I believe that Laumer did something similar in a book about the 5th Foreign Legion. They were caught in an Native...
Thanks for the clarification. :) To be honest, I didn't have any particular expectations on how it would go beforehand. During the game my expectations changed...
Sorry, It was Andrew Keith not Laumer. He also wrote at least two more books in the series called Cohort of the Damned, the Fifth Foreign Legion. I enjoyed all...
Thanks for the name, John. I've been casting about for some more good SF lately :) I've been reworking my site. There's now a full report of Security Team vs...
WELL, while digging in one of my footlockers this week for reading material to pass the time at the doctors-plural-offices, i found an ancient TRAVELLER RPG...
I've never done any hunting games, so this is all "armchair gaming" ... Depending on how you wanted to do things up, you could have a map - the players wander...
Olaf Meys included some rules for Big game Hunting in his Colonial variant of Slammer "In the Noon Day Sun"; http://www.loran.karoo.net/slammer/noonday.pdf ...
While working on my next game, I realized it needs some way to make capturing people easier. I was kicking around ideas for non- lethal weaponry and debating...
I have updated the Slammer Links page to include Geo's Techromancer web page. Thanks for the battle report Geo. I also added a link to Pete Jones' Vietnam...
Well after a looong time lurking, I've finally decided to start posting. The more I tinker around with Slammer the more I like it. I love the activation...
I couldn't aggree more. I've been distracted by my on again, off again WWII conversion and scenario's I'm working on but tinkering it to a core system that can...
Go for it! I will be pleased to see any feedback, suggestions or recommendations. I will be off line for a few days as I'm going to see my nephew James...
I called into my wargames club last Saturday for the first time in ages. They were all playing WW2 games using 15mm figures with PBI-2 rules from Peter Pig. I...
I've been wondering about how everyone else sets up their SF units. So far mine have been done according to what the scenario needs and what's lying around,...
... I've been trying to work out a system for "designing" a races armed forces. It consists of assigning some values to various racial characteristics like...
Hi there Thought I'd make up for be so quiet on here for so long. I have to admit that I stick fairly close to my experiences in the infantry but often tactics...
This is a re-post, it may be useful for the current discussion. This is not official, it's just rule of thumb stuff I use to get a feel for force balance. This...
Well, it's mostly from reading accounts from various wars where units adopted some captured gear (WW2 North Africa comes to mind, though I'm not really up on...
Whoops! Forgot to mention - when I'd said in my initial post "and then adjusting that each game by whether the unit is trained, green, etc. and scenario...
PAPER ONES NOT THE ONES ATTACHED TO FEET. GEO, i have done this several ways over the years. a. whatever the rules set specifies. b. scenario specific. c....
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